The new French prima donna, Madame de la Grange, has
appeared at Her Majesty's Theatre with distinguished success in La Prove d' un Opera Sena and in Don Pasquale. In Lucia her acting was the conventional tra- gedy of the stage, but these two pieces showed that nature has given her a rich vein of comedy. Her representation of Norina especially was most artistic, and so full of spirit that it seemed to inspire Lablache with even more than usual animation. She sang too with singular brilliancy, and introduced a finale containing passages which an able pianist would find it difficult to execute, and which we never before heard even at- tempted by any vocal performer. Madame de is Grange is evidently be- coming an attraction.
At Covent Garden, Luerezia Borgia, the Huguenots, and the Martin, without any change of cast, have furnished the entertainments of the week. The next novelty is to be Spohr's Faust; the production of which is to be directed by the veteran composer himself, and his arrival is expected in ten days or a fortnight. The dialogue, originally spoken, has been con- verted into recitative, the musk of which Spohr has already finished.
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