WINTER COVENT GARDEN OPERATIC NOTES.
Sir Augustus Anglo-Operaticus has done well at Covent Garden, and will probably go one better. To Miss Alice Esty, as Elsa, in Lohengrin, we say "Esty perpetua." All are good: and the houses have been apparently as good as the company. A season of German-French-Italian Opera in English is a risky venture for a winter season; still, if successful, and at popular prices, there is in it good promise for the future. The conductors are Messrs. Feld, Henschel, Glover, and Mr. C. Hedmondt, which sounds like an English rendering of Tête Monté. A Tête Monté can carry many a project through triumphantly where a Tête moins Monté would fail.
Tuesday.—Excellent Faust. Mr. Philip Brozel, first time in English, decidedly good. Sir Druriolanus thought the old opera "wanted a fillip," and so gave us Philip Brozel. Kate Lee a capital nurse, and Fanny Moody a delightful Marguerite. Olitzka a pleasing Siebel, and conductor Glover, as his name implies, keeping all hands well employed, and ready to give fits to any hand that might be "difficult." The remainder of the week "going strong."
In the interests of English opera, or rather of opera in English, we wish Druriolanus Covent Gardensis Operaticus, with Messieurs Tête Monté et Cie., every possible success.