Il Contrabbandiere, a melo-drame in two acts, the music by Cesare Pugni, was produced here on the 12th of June. There are in this opera some motivi new and elegant, but the instrumental part is much too noisy. The composer has too freely used his trombones and drums.
NAPLES.
Sig. Barbaja still retains the office of Impresario of the Grand Theatre Royal, the San Carlo. The company which he has formed for the ensuing season comprises, among many others, Mesdames Malibran, Ronzi di Begnis, and Lablache.
BOLOGNA.
Madlle. Blasis has been very favourably received by the public in this city. Matilde di Shabran would doubtless have proved more successful had all the performers contributed equally to an opera which requires a perfect company. The tenor, Duprez, has succeeded very well here; in him are united the talents of a good actor and singer.
PARIS.
MAD. DAMOREAU (Cinti), after an absence of three months, has re-appeared at the opera. Many works, which have suffered for want of her assistance, now feel the happy effect of her return.
TOULOUSE.
The concert of the celebrated M. Field has been a remarkable event for this city. All the best society of the town assembled at the Saloon of the Athenæum on this occasion, and, accustomed to hear only those pianists who delight in noise and absurd tricks, were as much surprised as charmed by the ease with which M. Field executed the most difficult and the most delicate passages.
M. Field is a disciple of the true piano forte school; Clementi was his master; and this is the school which must generally influence public taste. The love of novelty will now and then recommend sleight-of-hand tricks, but what is really good will always ultimately prevail, and never can be wholly neglected.