_Monday._--_L'Amico Fritz_ at last! Better late than never. A Dramatic Operatic Idyl. "Nothing in it," as _Sir Charles Coldstream_ observes, except the music, the singing, and the acting of Signor DE LUCIA as _Fritz_ Our Friend, of M. DUFRICHE as the _Rabbi_ of Mlle. GIULIA RAVOGLI as _Boy Beppe_, of Mlle. BAUERMEISTER as _Caterina_, and of Madame CALVÉ as _Suzel_. Not an indifferent performer or singer among them, and not an individual in the audience indifferent to their performance. Cherry-Tree Duet, between _Suzel_ and _Fritz_, great hit. Admirably sung and acted, and vociferously encored. Nay, they would have had it three times if they could, but though Sir DRURIOLANUS sets his face against encores, allowing not too much encore but just encore enough, he, as an astute Manager, cannot see why persons who have paid to hear a thing only once should hear it three times for the same money. No; if they like it so much that they want it again, and must have it, and won't be happy till they get it, then let them encore their own performance of paying for their seats, and come and hear their favourite _morçeaux_ over and over again as often as they like to pay. He will grant one encore no more. Sir DRURIOLANUS is right. Do we insist on Mr. IRVING giving us "To be or not to be," or any other soliloquy, all over again, simply because he has done it once so well? Do we ask Mr. J.L. TOOLE to repeat his author's good jokes--or his own when his author has failed him? No; we applaud to the echo, we laugh till, as Mr. CHEVALIER says, "we thort we should ha' died," but we don't encore the comic jokes, telling situations, or serious soliloquies as rendered by our accomplished histrions. [Illustration: The Rabbinical-Hat-Beer-Jug.] Were a collection of pictures made of Mlle. BAUERMEISTER in different characters, it would, for interest and variety, become a formidable rival of the CHARLES MATHEWS series now in the possession of the Garrick Club. To-night she is the busy, bustling _Caterina_, _Friend Fritz's_ housekeeper, who, as she has to provide all the food for their breakfast, and set it on the table, might be distinguished as _Catering Caterina_. No one now cares to see an Opera without Mlle. BAUERMEISTER in it, whether she appear as a dashing lady of the Court, probably in a riding-habit, or as a middle-class German housekeeper, or as Cupid God of Love, or as _Juliet's_ ancient nurse, or as an impudent waiting-maid, or as an unhappy mother, or as,--well,--any number of characters that I cannot now recall, but all done excellently well. Never have I heard of her being either "sick or sorry." Some few seasons ago I drew public attention to this most useful and ornamental _artiste_, and now I am glad to see that here and there a critic has awoke to the fact of her existence, and has done her tardy justice. Long may the Bauermeistersinger be able to give her valuable assistance, without which no Covent Garden Opera Company could possibly be perfect.