On Saturday, the 29th of April (the Saturday on which the public had hoped to have welcomed back Jenny Lind), Signor Labocetta, the tenor from the Italian Opera at Berlin, made his debut in "Il Barbiere." He was considered deficient in the qualities needed to sustain a permanent position in a theatre of such magnitude and such pretensions, and the court favourite of Berlin received nothing more than "faint praise" and “cold esteem."