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Another-novelty is rinnounced by the active manager of Her Majesty's Theatre,—Thalberg's Florinda, to be produced on_ Thursday next. This opera is founded on a. subject which has often been the theme of poetry and romance. Florinda is the famed "Count Julian's daughter," whose treatment by " Roderic the last of the Goths" brought about the fall of that sovereign and the ascendancy of the. Moors in. Spain. As Thalberg has hitherto distinguished himself only as a pianist and a composer for the piano, and has never, in so far as the public know, written a note-of vocal music, a grand opera:irons his pen is. an object of no small curiosity. Meanwhile, Sontag and Cruvelli are repeating their principal parts, and drawing immense houses. We again. saw the .Prodigo on Wednesday, in company with a Cambridge savant of musical taste, who had not seen Sontag since her early appearances here some twenty years ago. He was struck with the complete preservation of her vocal powers, and still more with her-efficiency as an actress, so much beyond, the promise of her younger days. There is, indeed, scarcely to be found a more beautiful conception than Sontag's picture of the Hebrew maiden, with the primi-. tive simplicity, ingenuousness, and artless affectiott whielt we associate 'with our idea of the patriarchal times : but in the great scene with Cols letti, the wicked Priest, she rises to a high degree of passionate energy, Cravelles Leonora, too, has not only stood its ground, but increased in favour, if we may judge by the crush and excitement on Thursday, when IYdeUo was advertised as "for the last time this season."
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