DRESDEN.
THE unceasing efforts of the Kapellmeister Reissiger have led to an engagement as a compensation for the temporary loss of Mad. Schroeder Devrient, whose characters will be sustained during her three months’ absence by Mad. Kraus Wranitzky; Mlle. Maschinka Schneider is also engaged for one year. The opera, however, experiences an irreparable heavy loss in the departure of Mad. Schebest, who appeared for the last time as Irma, in Der Maurer und der Schlosser (le Maçon.)
On Palm Sunday there was a grand performance of Bach’s oratorio, St. Matthew the Evangelist, at the great opera house, under the very able direction of Kapellmeister’s Morlacchi and Reissiger, in aid of the fund for the relief of the distressed widows and orphans of members of the Royal Chapel; the choruses consisted of upwards of two hundred voices, and there were ten eminent solo singers—among them, Mesdames Kraus Wranitzky and Schebest; the tenors, Babnigg and Schuster, and the bases, Risse, Wächter, and Zezi; and upwards of a hundred instruments judiciously proportioned.