Articles on forthcoming fall season

“Madame Parepa-Rosa retains her good health, and is no longer troubled with the rheumatic complaint that made her an unwilling prisoner in Boston. She is now in Chicago, giving oratorio performances with the greatest success. ‘The Creation’ has been twice performed there. Carl Rosa telegraphs from that city that at the performance last night the receipts were the greatest ever known in Chicago, amounting to three thousand seven hundred dollars. The sale of tickets was stopped at an early hour. Parepa will soon be hailing from Boston, whither she goes to open the Peace Festival. During that remarkable musical convention, she will sing on different days Gounod’s ‘Ave Maria,’ Rossini’s ‘Inflamatus,’ Handel’s ‘Let the bright Seraphim,’ Meyerbeer’s ‘Robert toi qui j’aime,’ and the solos in the ‘Star-Spangled Banner.’ When this popular vocalist will return to this city is not stated, though she has promised to give oratorios here. Under any circumstances she will sing again in New York in the fall, with her English opera company, to which, by the way, has been added Miss Fanny Stockton, a young singer of promising ability.”

“A season of English Grand Opera will be inaugurated by Mme. Parepa-Rosa at the Théâtre Français on the 15th of September. Extensive preparations are being made for insuring the success of the season, and it will doubtless mark the commencement of a new and higher era in the operatic tastes of our citizens. The prime donne will be Mme. Parepa-Rosa and a lady from Europe; the contralti, Miss Fannie Stockton and Mrs. Seguin; tenori, Messrs. Castle and Nordblum; baritoni, Messrs. Campbell and Lawrence, and buffo, Mr. Seguin. The repertoire, in addition to such operas as ‘Martha,’ ‘The Bohemian Girl,’ and other like compositions already favorably known to New Yorkers, will include the operas of ‘Oberon,’ ‘Puritan’s Daughter,’ ‘Robin Hood,’ ‘Victorine’ and a number of other celebrated works never before given in this country. There is every indication that the proposed new season of English opera in this city will prove a success. Mme. Rosa, however, should not limit her season at the Théâtre Français to three weeks. Three months would be more reasonable.”

Brief. “Italian opera will be revived again in this city next fall by Signora Gazzaniga, who intends to open the Academy of Music for that purpose early in September.

“The musical world all over the universe is in a most delightful flutter. The impressarii in every land are marshalling their forces for the coming lyric conflict, and those enchanting songstresses, the prime donne, are on consequence jubilant and in demand. Opera bouffe has had its day in this city and present appearances indicate that it will have but a very poor chance even in the provinces during the coming season. The spoils will probably be about equally divided in this city next fall between Italian opera and English opera. Both are promised us upon a grand scale, but upon which particular banner victory will finally perch it is at present rather difficult to determine. That New York can and is willing to support both there can be no doubt; but they must necessarily be really meritorious and deserving of support, else our music-loving citizens will not extend to them that patronage, without which they cannot hope to exist, even for the briefest possible period. Good operas, brought out in a liberal manner and interpreted by first class artists, will be pretty apt to be but short lived. A word to the wise is sufficient, and managers contemplating to give opera in this city next fall will do well to learn a lesson from the past.

“A season of English grand opera will be inaugurated by Madame Parepa-Rosa, at the Théâtre Français, on the 15th of September. Extensive preparations are being made for insuring the success of the season, and it will doubtless mark the commencement of a new and higher era in the operatic tastes of our citizens. The prime donne will be Madame Parepa-Rosa and a lady from Europe; the contralti, Miss Fannie Stockton and Mrs. Seguin; tenori, Messrs. Castle and Nordblum; baritone, Messrs. Campbell and Lawrence; and buffo, Mr. Seguin. The repertoire, in addition to such operas as ‘Martha,’ ‘The Bohemian Girl,’ and other like compositions already favorably known to New Yorkers, will include the operas of ‘Oberon,’ ‘Puritan’s Daughter,’ ‘Robin Hood,’ ‘Victorine’ and a number of other celebrated works never before given in this country.

“Miss Caroline Richings is also bucking on the armor for the fall season, and is at present engaged in forming a new company which promises to be very efficient. Among the new lyric stars that will appear in the Richings’ constellation is Miss Blanche Ellermann, a pupil of Signor Arditi. She is at present singing in concert at Baden-Baden, but will join the Richings troupe early in September, under a ten months’ engagement, as prima donna. The precise time that Miss Richings will favor New York with her presence has not as yet been determined.

“Italian opera, too, is likewise to claim a share of our patronage and attention. Impresario Mitchell, of London, contemplates favoring us with it in an unadulterated manner early in the fall at the ‘Catacombs.’ Mlle. Titiens, Mr. Santley and a number of other well known operatic stars have already been engaged by Mr. Mitchell to come to this country for that purpose.

“Mme. Gazzaniga also threatens to revive Italian opera at the Academy of Music early in September. Come one, come all: the more the merrier.”

“The French Theater, the Tammany, the New-York Theater, and the Academy of Music are closed. Nine theaters, beside the minstrel hall of the Bryants, and other kindred shows, remain open. New-York is supplied with a ll the theatrical excitement it wants in this sultry Summer weather, and more, too.—Mlle. Janauschek is expected to arrive in this country within a week or two. It is again said that next Autumn the distinguished actress will act here in English.”

“Fanny Janauschek, the great German tragedienne, is expected to arrive in this country from Europe about the middle of July. It is rumored that this distinguished actress, some time during the coming fall, will appear in this city in a series of English representations of her famous German impersonations.”