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Boston Theatre.The past season of Italian Opera has been one of the most successful for many years. Patti, Parepa, and Nilsson are forgotten under the influence of Lucca's divine voice. And her acting was such that we knew not which to admire most, that, or her singing. The operas presented have been the standard ones, and although in each of them the beautiful prima donna had nothing to fear from comparison with her gifted predecessors, her roles in Fra Diavolo and Faust were most pleasing. Her support by the Company, although weak in the tenor parts...
...description of the collection would be a fruitless task; every one who is interested in art ought to examine it for himself and pass judgment upon it; still, we may mention here two gems of the collection. One is an engraving by Baccio Baldini, one of the very earliest Italian engravers, born in 1437. It is a unique impression of a circular silver plate about four inches in diameter; one of a set of twenty-four, described in books as bought in Florence over a hundred years ago, and which were for many years the glory of the Otto collection...