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Excerpt from Memoirs and Letters of Madame Malibran, Vol. 1 of 2 These Operas succeeding, Congreve and Sir John Vanbrugh, on the first night of opening their new Haymarket Theatre, performed a translated opera called the Temple of Love but the music being German, and the fashion of that time, as at the present, inclining chiefly towards the compositions of Italian masters, the speculation of these old dramatists was not a successful one. Addison en deavoured to administer to the growing taste by writing an opera called Rosamond, to which Thomas Clayton attempted to compose; but as this was not only not an Italian production, but about the poorest stufl' that ever assumed the name of music, its existence lasted only three nights. It was succeeded by Thomyris, Queen of Scythia, from the pen of Motteux, with a selection from the compositions of Scarlatti and Bononcini; which, although not so much relished at first as Camilla, the following season rivalled it in popularity for a period of six weeks - they being then played at Drury Lane on alternate nights. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.