Paul et Virginie. Opéra en Trois Actes et Six Tableaux

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Opera en Trois Actes et Six Tableaux. Poeme de Jules Barbier et Michel Carre; Musique de Victor Masse. [Paris: Theodore Michaelis.] THE important work before us, the latest composition of one who occupies an important and prominent position among living French composers, was produced for the first time on the Isth of November last at the Opera National-Lyrique in Paris. M. Masse is no novice at operatic conaposition; in the " Dictionnaire Lyrique" ot M. Clement no less than eighteen vorks from his pen are REVIEWS. Palzl £f ;7irgislie. Opera en Trois Actes et Six Tableaux. Poeme de Jules Barbier et Michel Carre; Musique de Victor Masse. [Paris: Theodore Michaelis.] THE important work before us, the latest composition of one who occupies an important and prominent position among living French composers, was produced for the first time on the Isth of November last at the Opera National-Lyrique in Paris. M. Masse is no novice at operatic conaposition; in the " Dictionnaire Lyrique" ot M. Clement no less than eighteen vorks from his pen are THE MUSICAL TIMES. APRIL I, IS77. THE MUSICAL TIMES. APRIL I, IS77. " Surprise 7) Symphony, a Trio by Reissier (Op. 58), admirably played by Mr. Bent (violin), Mr. T. Serjeant (violoncello), and Miss Bent (piano), and miscellaneous selections. Mr. H. Spencer, jun., conducted.