OPERATIC NOTES.
Wednesday.—Crowded for WAGNER's Götterdämmerung, "which," says the Rev. Mr. Penley, who "doesn't like London," "is such an awful name, that fond as I am of music, I really could not go and see it." As to WAGNER, well, "it's all right when you know him, but you've got to know him fust."
Herr ALVARY excellent as Siegfried; Herr WIEGAND powerful; ditto the wide-awake Herr KNAPP. Frau KLAFSKY, a beautiful and interesting Brünnhilde; and it is difficult to be personally interesting in a Wagnerian Opera, where ensemble is everything. Fräulein HEINE and BETTAQUE, equally good.
Herr MAHLER was "called," with the rest of the company, to receive his meed of praise for conducting. Opera perfectly put on Stage by Herr von DRURIOLANUS, and though the Season is coming to an end, yet the Opera is still "going strong."
NOTE AND QUERY BY MRS. R.—Our old friend wants to know from what Poet comes this quotation—
"A needless Salamander ends the line."
Mrs. R. thinks it's from POPE; but if so, she asks what Pope? as there are so many of 'em.