Spohr came to London this season with two objects,—to superintend
the production of .Tessonda at Covent Garden, and to conduct the last two concerts of the New Philharmonic Society. He conducted the concerts; but he has departed leaving his opera unproduced. We have reason to know that Mario, to whom the part of the hero had been assigned, thought proper to throw it up after having had it a considerable time in his hands; and that the part, instead of being given to Tamberlik, who ought to have had it from the beginning as being the best qualified for it, has devolved upon Signor Lucchesi, a tenor who has been here all the season without doing anything to distinguish himself. The opera, we observe, is now " underlined" ; but this kind of management gives little reason to hope for a satisfactory or successful performance.
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