Venue(s):
Academy of Music
Manager / Director:
Jerome Ravel
Event Type:
Play With Music
Status:
Published
Last Updated:
6 February 2019
“Jerome Ravel will have the honor to present Leotard to the American public…an awesome, original piece.”
Leotard’s band caused a public disturbance.
Part of review of Kellogg opera performance. “Miss Kellogg will sing at the Brooklyn Academy of Music on Wednesday and thereafter will travel East under the direction of Mr. Max Strakosch. We may be sure that she will meet with a hearty welcome. Upon her return to New-York we hope once more to hear her in opera but with different support to that which has been recently vouchsafed to her. We trust, too, that no gymnast may have possession of the ‘principal art establishment in America.’ An opera on the trapeze with the guys and wires and platforms of M. Leotard’s apparatus in the body of the house and upon the stage, is a sorry sight and is apt to recall the downward career of the Astor-place Opera House, when the muses were succeeded precipitously by M. Donezetti’s monkeys. There is one comfort, however; the fumbler has met with a distinct failure, while the prima donna has been received with acclaim. We mean no disrespect to M. Leotard, who is as graceful as anything turning round in the air can be, and gets as near breaking his neck as any person of regular habits can be expected to get without great personal discomfort. Only the beer garden or concert saloon is his proper sphere, not the Academy of Music. And it may be added that, under the peculiar circumstances of Miss Kellogg’s return, it was not only vexatious, but spiteful, that, for the sake of a few dollars, she should be involved with the fag end of a circus—for on each night the Academy of Music had that appearance.”