We can form some notion of Auguste Vestris's style from that of Perrot (now ballet-master at the St. Petersburgh Opera), who was his favourite pupil, and who is certainly by far the most graceful and expressive dancer that the opera goers of the present day have seen. END OF VOL. I. HISTORY OF THE OPERA, from its Origin in Italy to the present Time. WITH ANECDOTES OF THE MOST CELEBRATED COMPOSERS AND VOCALISTS OF EUROPE. BY SUTHERLAND EDWARDS, AUTHOR OF "RUSSIANS AT HOME," ETC. "QUIS TAM DULCIS SONUS QUI MEAS COMPLET AURES?" "WHAT IS ALL THIS NOISE ABOUT?" VOL II. LONDON: WM. H. ALLEN & CO., 13, WATERLOO PLACE. 1862. (_The right of translation and reproduction is reserved._) LONDON: LEWIS AND SON, PRINTERS, SWAN BUILDINGS, (49) MOORGATE STREET. CONTENTS VOLUME II. CHAPTER XI. PAGE The Opera in England at the end of the Eighteenth and beginning of the Nineteenth Century 1 CHAPTER XII. Opera in France after the departure of Gluck 34 CHAPTER XIII. The French Opera before and after the Revolution 46 CHAPTER XIV. Opera in Italy, Germany and Russia, during and in connection with the Republican and Napoleonic Wars.--Paisiello, Paer, Cimarosa, Mozart.--The Marriage of Figaro.--Don Giovanni 86 CHAPTER XV. Manners and Customs at the London Opera half a century since 121 CHAPTER XVI. Rossini and his Period 140 CHAPTER XVII. Opera in France under the Consulate, Empire and Restoration 178 CHAPTER XVIII. Donizetti and Bellini 226 CHAPTER XIX. Rossini--Spohr--Beethoven--Weber and Hoffmann 282 HISTORY OF THE OPERA. CHAPTER XI. THE OPERA IN ENGLAND AT THE END OF THE EIGHTEENTH AND BEGINNING OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. Hitherto I have been obliged to trace the origin and progress of the Opera in various parts of Europe. At present there is one Opera for all the world, that is to say, the same operatic works are performed every where, if not, "De Paris à Pékin, de Japon jusqu'à Rome,"