THE DRAMA.
KING’s THEATRE.
THE practice of giving fragments of operas has been continued during the last month, and so far as such feeble stuff as Anna Bolena, Norma, &c. is concerned, it is not worth while to complain: but when a work like Semiramide is exposed to the same treatment, it is time to protest against such barbaric taste, such an insult to common sense. This fine opera has actually been compressed into one act, and so performed! But La Cenerentola, one of Rossini’s inferior operas, has been given in an entire state, and strongly got up, Mad. MALIBRAN in the principal part.
On Saturday the 20th of July, BELLINI’s promised serious opera, I Capuleti e Montecchi, (which may be translated, The Capulets and Montagues,—or, Romeo and Juliet,) was performed for the first time here, and thus cast:—
Romeo
Mad. PASTA.
Julietta
Mad. DE MERIC.
Tebaldo
Sig. DONZELLI.