Beauty even appears in the score at moments, and there are charming and picturesque bits, as well as puerilities and shocking vulgarities.
Public curiosity was aroused for a long time by clever advance notices and had reached a high pitch when _L'Etoile du Nord_ appeared.

The work was carried by the exceptional talents of Bataille and Caroline Duprez and was enormously successful at the start, but this success has grown steadily less.

Faure and Madame Patti gave some fine performances in London.

We shall probably never see their equal again, and it is not desirable that we should either from the standpoint of art or of the author.
_Les Huguenots_ was not an opera pieced together out of others, but it did not reach the public as the author wrote it.

At the beginning of the first act there was a game of cup and ball on which the author had set his heart.