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 harp, which are heard above the melody which is sung out by the 'cellos.

The solo "Dall' Aurora," in L'Êtoile du Nord, is accompanied by a double obligato on two flutesone flute is behind the scene and the other is on the stage, and has a cadenza along with the voice. Chorley remarks that this trio is "better as a concert-piece, Cadenza in Les Huguenots ii. than when heard in the opera, because there the songstress must remain at such a distance from both instruments (the flautist on the stage being merely a mime) that all the intimacy of response and dialogue is lost, and the effect is that of a soprano scrambling against a double echo." It was performed at the Philharmonic Concerts in 1857 (Pratten and Card) and in