La Grange-Brignoli Italian Opera: La traviata

“A season more brilliant has never beeen known even in this City of triumph and successes, and the director congratulates himself, in spite of the oft inclemency of the weather and other disadvantages well known, he has been enabled to present the standard works in such variety and with such perfection of cast as to win not only the most flattering support from the public, but the cordial recognition from the critical press.

In this occasion, Mr. Strakosch is glad to announce that, having secured the lease, for a brief period, of the Academy of Music, he is enabled, in deference to the universal desire of his patrons, to transfer his troupe from Mr. Pike’s Opera House to the scene wheron the contemporaries of this own great artists have won their brightest fame. . . The enthusiastic reception…has induced the management to announce it for repetition on the openining night, with its powerful cast, new and magnificent dresses, appointments, etc.”

“The cold which prevented the appearance of Madame La Grange in Brooklyn on Thursday, and in New-York on Friday, has left no traces in her voice, and at the matinée on Satrurday she appeared as Violetta in ‘La Traviata,’ winning from a crowded audience an applause which was really enthusiastic. We have rarely heard her to greater advantage. Her excellence of voice, her delicate culture, and her intense dramatic power have full scope for exhibition in this part, and the enforced rest which she has enjoyed during the last few days seemed to have given her renewed spirit and energy. Signor Brignoli was likewise in fine condition, and Signor Orlandini sang with even more than his usual good taste though hardly with his usual correctness, betraying an occasional tendency to flatten. The performance, on the whole, was an admirable one.”

“At the matinée on Saturday there was a very large attendance; ‘La Traviata’ was given in a thoroughly successful manner.”