Anna Bishop Vocal Concert

“Madame Anna Bishop gave a sacred concert at Steinway Hall last night, singing in the best style the Casta Diva and a variety of miscellaneous selections, which served well to show off her rare versatility. She was assisted by a number of resident artists of ability, and by the pianist, Mr. Klawolski [sic].”

“The second concert of Mme. Bishop at Steinway Hall last night was attended by a large and intelligent audience. Her fine voice, after a lapse of four years—in which she has sung in almost every quarter of the globe—is nearly as fresh as ever. It has lost none of that purity of tone, nor has her method lost any of its clearness of execution that was wont to charm us in the past. In the beautiful aria pf Handel’s, ‘Angels ever bright and fair,’ Mme. Bishop made her first impression. The duet from ‘Linda,’ with Mr. Simpson—whose delicious tenor voice, by the way, improves every day in strength and sweetness—was delightfully rendered and very justly applauded. Indeed, the reception of Mme. Bishop was of the most cordial character throughout the entire performance. With such assistants as George W. Morgan, who is a host in himself whenever he touches the organ, and Simpson, a tenor whose voice is always welcome in the concert hall, and Ronconi, whose buffo songs are generally good, albeit his brightest days are past, and the pianist, Kowalski, who, with a fair command of the instrument would be more appreciated if he gave less the compositions of Kowalski and more of other composers, the company of Madame Bishop is a good one and can always draw such houses as this favorite cantatrice deserves. She is no less a favorite here now than she was four years ago, when she left us to brave the vicissitudes of fortune by land and sea. And after escaping much peril and enduring a good deal of suffering in her romantic career she comes back to us to receive a genial and hearty welcome.”