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Garibaldi, the first tenor, and only good
singer in it, among the men, being ill.
All his part was cut out, and the Bari-
tono, in the character of a blustering old
father, who was to abuse his son vio-
lently in the first scene and song, finding
he had no son there, gave a turn to the
misfortune, which diverted the audience
very much, and made them submit to
their disappointment with a better grace
than they would have done in England;
for, instead of his son, he fell upon the
prompter, who here, as at the opera in
England, pops his head out of a little
trap-door on the stage. The audience
were so delighted with this attack upon
the prompter, who is ever regarded as an
enemy to their pleasures, that they en-
cored the song in which it was made.
However, after the first act and the dance,
I came away, as the lights at the opera-
house here affected my eyes in a very
painful manner; and there being no
retribution for this suffering to-night,
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