THE ITALIAN OPERA.
Tae season really began on Thursday night ; and we have seldom Nvitoe,-sed a more att,picious commencement. The opera was La Ltrifiar; supported by OHNE, BRAMBILLA, TAMBURINI, IVAN HOLT, ruin BA MACHE. NiGEitz was the character selected by Gain for her debut last year ; and it is her best part. She seems the natu- rally-endowed representative of this interesting girl ; and music ap- pears, with he r, the unavoidable medium of expression for the bound- ing of joy or the bitterness of despair. Nature seems to dictate every modulation of her voice,—whether expressing transport for the return of her lover, indignation at the brutality of the Podesta, the honest glow of innocence, or the fervour of filial piety. And this is the real end, as it is the greatest triumph, of the vocal art. TAMUURINI'S acting, ai well as his singing, was admirable. Not so that of Ivaenore ; who will never be able to shake off the effect of the early discipline which seeks to divest man of every noble impulse and every natural feeling, and bind him to the yoke of passive obedience. Ivaa.. noel' is a mere machine, endowed with a voice of uncommon sweetness. LA BE ACHE is not a better representative of the Podesta than ZUCHELLI ; in some respects, indeed, riot so good. But the opera, taken as a whole, was a performance worthy of the best days of the King's Theatre.
The house was crowded, and the performers were greeted with a cor- dial welcome from the audience. We could have spared the scene from
Pireita, introduced between the acts of the opera, for the sole pur- pose of exhibiting BURIN!.
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