Richings English Opera: La sonnambula—Caroline Richings Benefit

“The English opera, at the Olympic, has been fairly patronized. The benefit given last evening to Miss Caroline Richings was a substantial one, as it ought to have been.”

“Miss Caroline Richings’ benefit took place at the Olympic theater last night, and a large audience testified the public’s appreciation of the talented directress of the English opera troupe. We have seldom heard her sing so well as in the charming, ever popular Sonnambula, and her Amina was greeted with well deserved applause. Castle’s Elvino and Campbell’s Count Badolpho were excellent also, and the amusing Alessis found a fitting representation in J.A. Arnold. The parts of Teresa and Liza are generally entrusted to weak, inefficient voices, but Mrs. Boudinot and Miss Arnold were of a different stamp, and gave unqualified satisfaction. The opera on the whole was the most successful of the season. We earnestly hope that this last attempt to establish English Opera in this city will prove successful, as it deserves. To give a different opera every night in the week and a matinee besides is a severe test of the powers of a troupe, and the present one so far has stood it well.”