KÖNIGSBERG.
ON the 3rd and 10th of October, the music director, Mr. Saemen, produced Handel’s Alexander’s Feast. On the 18th October, and 14th November, the music director, Mr. Riel, gave, for charitable purposes, Handel’s Messiah, in the Lobnicht Church. On the 25th, 27th, and 31st of October, three Tyrolese minstrels gave concerts of national airs. They are jovial people, expert enough in musical tricks, such as yodling, falsetto, &c., but are anything but artists.
On the 31st October, Mr. Louis Mauer, from Hanover, gave a concert; among the pieces of which we have to notice a concertino for the violin, fantasias on melodies of the Dumb Girl of Portici, executed by Mr. L. Mauer, and variations of Mayseder, by Wsewolod Mauer. The father and son played also a rondo à la polacca for two violins; variations for two violins and violoncello, upon the Cloak Song, from Leonora, the whole composed by L. Mauer.
The theatre has furnished little of marked interest; Mr. Rosicke of the Berlin Königstadt Theater appeared in various characters, with success, more particularly as Wallheim in Leonora. Mr. Heckscher, a new engagement from the Brunswick Court Theatre, made his appearance as Don Juan, Count Wetter von Strahl, Caspar in the Freyschutz, Lord Cockburn in Fra Diavolo, &c. The experienced actor is easily recognised in this gentleman, who possesses a powerful bass voice, but of which he does not always avail himself to the best advantage. On the 16th of October was performed, for the benefit of Miss Hulda Schaffner, Je toller, je besser (Une Folie), by Méhul.
The principal novelty on our boards was the production, on the 6th December, of the opera of Imogen (founded on Shakspeare’s Cymbeline), a composition of our worthy music director, Mr. Sobolewski, who, according to report, has also furnished the poem. Mr. S. has raised himself from the ranks in music to his present situation of commander-in-chief, and, by this opera, has furnished a new proof of musical talent of a superior order.