In these recitals they gave Mehul's _Joseph_, which had disappeared from the stage for a long time.

The beautiful choruses sung by the fresh voices of the pupils made such a success and the whole work was so enthusiastically applauded that it was revived at the Opera-Comique and won back a success which it has never lost.

We also heard there Gluck's _Orphee_ long before that masterpiece was revived at the Theatre-Lyrique.

Then there was Mehul's _Irato_, a curious and charming work which the Opera took up afterwards.

And there, too, they gave the last act of Rossini's _Otello_.