Maretzek Italian Opera: Ernani

Event Information

Venue(s):
Academy of Music

Manager / Director:
Max Maretzek

Price: $1 general admission; $1.50 and $2 reserved seats, according to location; $8 to $10 private boxes; .50 family circle

Event Type:
Opera

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
1 June 2019

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

21 Nov 1868, 1:00 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
Ernani
Composer(s): Verdi
Text Author: Piave
Participants:  Maretzek Italian Opera Company;  Agatha [soprano] States (role: Elvira)

Citations

1)
Announcement: New York Post, 11 November 1868, [2].
2)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 16 November 1868, 7.
3)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 18 November 1868.
4)
Announcement: New York Post, 19 November 1868.
5)
Article: New-Yorker Musik-Zeitung, 21 November 1868, 248.

The German-Italian opera ensemble leaves us today. Some of their leading singers have reached a respectable age as LaGrange and Brignoli on the Italian side, and Rotter and Cellini on the German. The star of this year’s opera however was Miss Augusta States, who improved tremendously after last year’s failed debut. She possesses a mezzo soprano, which is also full and round in the middle and lower ranges. (…) 

Robert was the best performance of this week despite the fact that it was sung half in German and half in Italian. The Freischütz was the most attractive of the German opera, Fidelio was the most terrible.

6)
Announcement: New-York Times, 21 November 1868, 5.

“To-day there will be a matinee performance of Ernani—a work which is always welcome.”

7)
Announcement: New-York Daily Tribune, 21 November 1868, 4.
8)
Review: New York Post, 23 November 1868.

“Last Saturday’s matinee was fairly attended, and in ‘Ernani’ Miss States and Signor Orlandini were highly successful.”

9)
Review: New-Yorker Musik-Zeitung, 28 November 1868, 264.

States proved that she is still able to expand her skills.