.Don Giovanni has been produced this week at the Lyceum,
but cer- tainly with "maimed rites." We never before saw Mozart's mas- terpiece so lamely performed. Ronconi, unwarned by his failure two years ago, has again attempted to personate the dissolute but bril- liant libertine ; a role for which he is wholly disqualified, by his mean figure, hard features, unmusical voice and vulgarity of manner. Ron- coal is an admirable performer in his own line ; but to play Dr. Dui- camera is one thing, and Don Giovanni another. The Donna Anna was Madame Devries ; a stout matronly lady, as unlike the heroine as can be imagined, though she has a good voice, and sings like an artist. These failures were sufficient to mar the representation; though Bosio was a Charming Zerlina, Marai (albeit somewhat weak) an intelligent and in- teresting Elvira, and Ferules's Leporello a highly artistic delineation. Gardoni disappointed us in Don Ottavio : in singing his principal air, "Il mio tesoro," he quite forgot its character, which is unmingled ten- derness.
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