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Event Information

Venue(s):
Academy of Music

Price: $1.50 reserved; $1; $.50 family circle; $6 to $20 private boxes

Event Type:
Play With Music

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
10 August 2019

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

17 Apr 1869, Evening

Program Details

“Grand farewell night” of Fanny Janauschek. (She ended up adding performances, so this was not technically her last.)

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
Text Author: Grillparzer
Participants:  Fanny Janauschek

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 12 April 1869, 12.
2)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 12 April 1869, 7.
3)
Announcement: New York Clipper, 17 April 1869, 14.

“Janauschek is still holding forth at the Academy of Music, but business is very checkered and dispiriting.”

4)
Announcement: New-York Times, 17 April 1869, 6.
5)
Announcement: New York Post, 17 April 1869.
6)
Review: New York Clipper, 24 April 1869, 22.

No mention of music. Incorrectly states this was the last of Janauschek’s performances in April 1869. Notes poor attendance.