Announcements on the opening of the opera season by the Maretzek Italian Opera Company

Article on forthcoming plans for the Maretzek Italian Opera Company. Maretzek will go to Philadelphia and Baltimore after finishing his one-week season in New York. He will come back here in November for a six-week season at the Winter Garden. Cagnoni’s opera Don Bucefalo will then be performed for the first time. Judged by the piano excerpts, this opera promises to be much better and original than Crispino e la Comare.

Includes a description of the opening-night opera, Crispino e la Comare.

“Mr. Max Maretzek commences his Italian opera season at the Brooklyn Academy of Music on Wednesday evening next, October 10. He has a splendid company, of which the following are the members: Miss Clara Louise Kellogg, Senora Carmelina Poch, Signora F. Natali Testa, and Miss Fanny Stockton, Signori Massolini, Testa, Bellini, Antonucci, Dubreuil, and Giorgio Ronconi. The orchestra and chorus will be as large and as excellent as those departments usually under the management of Mr. Maretzek. The old costumes having been destroyed in the New-York Academy of Music, they have been replaced by others upon which no expense has been spared. They are certainly the most costly and most beautiful costumes now in this country.”

“To-night will be memorable in the history of the Brooklyn Academy, from the fact that—for the first and probably the last time—the New York opera season will really begin there. At all events, a good portion of the regular New York patrons of the opera will to-night make the voyage across East River, to hear the great buffo Ronconi, their favorite, Miss Kellogg, Bellini, Antonucci and the rest of the noble company organized by Maretzek for the coming musical campaign. The opera will be ‘Crispino e la Comare.’ To-morrow night ‘Il Trovatore,’ Friday night ‘Fra Diavolo,’ and Saturday night ‘La Sonnambula.’”