Advertisement:Courrier des États-Unis, 05 May 1863.
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Announcement:Courrier des États-Unis, 05 May 1863.
“Tomorrow, the second performance, which will confirm the success of the first.”
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Announcement:New-York Times, 06 May 1863, 4.
“The opera of ‘Aroldo’ . . . to be repeated this evening.”
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Advertisement:New-York Times, 06 May 1863, 7.
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Announcement:New York Herald, 06 May 1863, 4.
“Mazzoleni and Bellini have fine roles in this work.”
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Advertisement:New York Herald, 06 May 1863, 12.
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Announcement:New York Post, 06 May 1863, 2.
“Maretzek’s usual luck in the way of bad weather seems to have attacked him at the onset of this season.The beauties of the opera are, however, enough to fill the house.”
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Announcement:Courrier des États-Unis, 06 May 1863.
“This evening, the second performance of Aroldo by Verdi.”
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Review:New York Herald, 07 May 1863, 7.
“‘Aroldo’ was repeated last night at the Academy of Music to a slim audience. The terrible weather precluded all possibility of a large house. The performance was unnecessarily shorn of [illeg.] from this fact. The grand finale at the end of the first act was received with applause, as on the first representation of the opera, while Signor Mazzoleni was successful in gaining warm tokens of approval from the audience throughout the performance. The grand aria for the baritone, Belini, in the commencement of the third act, was loudly applauded. ‘Aroldo’ will be given for the last time at the matinee on Saturday.”
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Review:New-York Times, 11 May 1863, 4.
“The past week was an unfavorable one for Mr. Maretzek’s operatic enterprise.Its opening was in dangerous proximity to the great ‘moving day,’ and its close, with the exception of Saturday, was moist and forbidding.Notwithstanding these circumstances the spirit of the manager was unflagging, and hence we had four splendid performances—three of them being of Verdi’s new opera of ‘Aroldo,’ and the fourth of the same maestro’s ‘Ernani.’”
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Review:New York Clipper, 16 May 1863, 38.
“They had a horribly ‘small but appreciative’ audience to the Academy, on the 6th, to hear the opera of ‘Aroldo.’ The most wonderful thing in connection with it, however, is the fact that the singers certainly did their best to please, and cheer the hearts of the few lonely-looking persons present. They could not have done better had the house been filled with retired cod-fish merchants, all-hunk cheese dealers, and rich but honest Fifth ‘Avenoodles.’ All honor to the brave few who braved the storm to hear the operatics operate, and blessings on the singers for their praiseworthy exertions to pander to the weather-beaten musical appetites of their patrons.”
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Review:Dwight's Journal of Music, 16 May 1863, 29.
On Monday and Wednesday evenings, and at the usual Saturday’s matinee, Verdi’s unsuccessful opera ‘Aroldo’ was produced.Did Mr. Maretzek think that an opera that had failed in Europe, would still do for New York?If so, he was mistaken – just for once.The opera fell flatly even on the ears of the Academy audience.Except the finale to the first act, we cannot recall any portion of it that possesses Verdi’s merit.”
