New-York daily tribune., 1856-02-29
Assembly
FROM BOSTON,.
To-day
was done.

BOSTON, TUESDAY, FcD' 20, iooo'
The singing birds have taken wing for Philadel
phia. After making for US a delicious Spring or
Summer season of five weeks in Mldwinter they
have left us desoate, but for the hope that, like
other birds of PASSAGE they may return again to
delight our ears 1t was too good to last as Gold
smiths contented sailor said of the French prison.
But il is hard to come down to this working-day
planet out of that inefable world which is as " full
of roses as ProsperO's Island; where, like the
enchantress in Thalaba &" still their speech is song;"
where love- and terror, and hatred and tenderness,
and revenge are all set to music; where sympa-
thzing band Of friends or dependants-wOmen as
well as men-are always ready to appear at the
first instant, to chime in with the harmonious pas
sions of the moment; where the dagger and the
bowl are but natural deaths; where tenOrs breathe
forth their last sighs in tenderest melody, with
despairing prima donnas breaking their hearts or
taking leave of their senses IN song over their
PROSTATE bodies The scenes which pass upon
the operate stage are not precisely such as we
see in daily life hereabouts [ don't know how 1t
may be with you in New-Y0rk, nor should affirm
that the characters OF situations are always
strictly natural. No more are those OF the Arab
ian Nights, or the Orlando Furioso-but are we
TO resist their incantatiOns because Sindbad does
not sail out Of Boston, or, because the gardens oil
Alcipa are not to be found at Flushing, nor the
Hippogriff kept at livery at the club stables
The last week of the Opera was very excel
lent one for the management. Indeed, there was
but one bad night out of the twenty, and that was
last Tuesday, when the public had come to the
theater with their mouths made up for Don Clio
vanni. and found that valuable nObleman had had
TO give place TO the differing virtues OF Norma, In
consequence of the illness of Ddee. Many per-
sons turned away and took back their money, and
the array of boxes was rather beggarly that night
Rut ON the last two nights the house was nearly
as full as it could hOld-the last one rather more
so. indeed We think that we did very well by Mr.
Paine and the only complaint We have to make OF
him that he would sometimes put in his second or
third-rate artists when he might just as well have
let us have his best On the last night 10 par
ticular, he damaged the entertainment sadly oy
casting Signor Caspani as Silva IN Ernani, instead
of Amodio or GasparOni; and then we saw moth
ing of the ballet which had been promised us in
advance. This, il is understood, was in cOnse-
ouepce of remonstralce from some cOstiye saint
in The Transcript, setting forth the CONSCIENTIOUS
scruples of many Opera-lovers to witnessing the
poetry ofmotion and threatening Infinite loss 10
the management if it were forced upon their re-
luctsnt ewes. Nov this was all bosh. l do no
believe a dollar would have been lost to the
;nDr,sario and the entertainments would have
been made more perfect by the introduction OF the
ballet where il properly belonged. do not be-
lieya there is any more appreciate ocectlon 10
GOOD dancing. q am fully ready to admit its im-
morality when bad among our opera-golng people
than YOURS or that of any other public. And;
besides. if there were any persons who dishked
the exhibition, there is the finest foyer IN the
country, elegantly furnished and brilliantly hgh'ea.
TO which they could retire for the nonce, OF, a.
the worst, l should think they must have mats
and furs which they could iDterpose between
their eyes and the offending members. trust THIS
will be amended the next time the troupe comes
here 1t NAV be that the saints are to inherit the
earth: but hold that they should get possession
of the rest of their heritage before they seize on
the mimic world of the stage. Is there to be no
regard for the rights of sinners also
Madame La Grange is surely 4 wonderful artist
Tn nv poor Judgment she is the greatest actress,
With the exception of Rachel, that we have ever
had had in this country. And cannot conceive OF
Rachel herself expressing the tenderness the desc so
Iation. the despair, and the madness OF LUCIA
With more touching or more terrible power than
she did And am quite sure that even Rachel
could not have equaed the perfection OF La Grange
in Rosipa; the archness the e'P'egaerN, tne
SroIlery. the fun which breathed from every loos