[ 354 ]
TOC
|
debted for this, and for many other op-
portunities of information at Naples.
The house was emptying very fast, and I
was obliged to take my leave of this sire
of song, who is the only singer in Europe
that continues the public exercise of his
profession; for he frequently sings in
convents and in churches yet, though
he has for some time quitted the stage.
In the opera to-night there were three
entertaining dances, but all in the lively
way; the Italians are not pleased with
any other. Indeed, as I have before ob-
served, all their dances are more panto-
mime entertainments than any thing else,
in which the scenes are usually pretty,
and the stories well told. The subject
of the first dance was l'isola disabitata;
of the second, the humours of Vauxhall
Gardens in England, in which were in-
troduced quakers, sailors, women of the
town, Savoyard shew-boxes, &c. and
in the third dance, at the end of the
piece, the people of Thrace figured at the
|
.jpg)