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THEATRE ROYAL, DUBLIN. 31
E. Horncastle, Miss M. Hamilton, and Mr. A. Giubilei
were of the Company.
July loth. Power commenced an engagement ending
July i8th. He was advertised to sail in the " President"
on the 2ist (delayed).
November loth. Mr. and Mrs. Wood commenced an
English Opera engagement. Principal Baritone, M. W.
Balfe. Rooke's Opera of " Amelie, or the Love Test,"
produced for the first time in Dublin. Balfe did not
possess a powerful voice, but his vocalism was simply
perfection. Bourdogni was his singing-master, and it was
indeed a treat to hear the pupil sing the elaborate and
difficult solfeggios composed by the master for him.
The two lovely baritone songs in " Amelie," " What is the
Spell?" and " My Boyhood's Home," received a fine in-
terpretation. A revival of " Amelie," with some revisal,
would be profitable.
During the engagement, " Der Freischutz " .was performed.
At one of the rehearsals of the Incantation
Scene, during the casting of the magic bullets, Mr. Calcraft,
who was Casper (also the caster of the balls), was much
annoyed by the irregularity with which the echoes were
given. The performers of the echoes were " supers."
chosen from the Dublin Militia, then called the " dirty
Dubs." The echoes should follow each other; as, when
Caspar calls " one," the echo should be " one ! one ! one !''