VIENNA.
Hofoperntheater.—The opera Ferdinand Cortez has been reproduced, with M. Wild as Telasco, Madame Ernst as Amazily, and M. Breiting as Cortez; the minor characters were also well sustained. Donizetti’s Anna Bolena has also been given, and with even greater success than at the Josephstadttheater.
At the Hofburgtheater a new oratorio by the organist Assmayr has been performed; it displays great ability, and the music is eminently expressive of the words; it was well received.
At the first and second of the Concerts Spirituels have been given a symphony of Mozart composed for the Concerts Spirituels in Paris in the year 1778, Vogler’s overture to Castor and Pollux, a mass by Cherubini, symphony in C minor by Beethoven, chorus from Jephtha by Handel, a new Te Deum, a sterling composition, by Tomascheck, &c. &c. For the third and fourth concerts were announced Beethoven’s symphony in B, the ninth psalm of Fesca, Weber’s Jubilee overture, the Abbé Vogler’s Litany, Mozart’s symphony in E
, chorus and fugue from the oratorio Der Tod Jesu by Graun, Beethoven’s festival overture, and the Gloria from the second mass of Cherubini.
The annual concert at the Conservatory of Music, to display the progress of the pupils, took place a short time since, when their performance of Mozart’s symphony in D, and the meritorious efforts of the vocalists, gave great satisfaction.
A concert of a brilliant character was recently given by the horn virtuoso, M. Lewy; he was assisted by Demlle. Heinefetter, and MM. Thalberg, Titze, Hürt, and Sachner.
Romberg is at present sojourning here, and has played on the violoncello at a concert in the Kärntnerthor Theater. Age seems to have produced no effect upon his mighty powers; his reception was enthusiastic in the extreme.