Grand Opera House
Event Information
Venue(s):
Grand Opera House
Proprietor / Lessee:
James, Jr. Fisk
Manager / Director:
John F. [manager] Cole
Price: $1 matinee, “all parts”
Record Information
Status:
Published
Last Updated:
27 February 2022
Performance Date(s) and Time(s)
18 Apr 1870, Evening19 Apr 1870, Evening
20 Apr 1870, Evening
21 Apr 1870, Evening
22 Apr 1870, Evening
23 Apr 1870, Evening
23 Apr 1870, 2:00 PM
Program Details
Performers and/or Works Performed
Citations
"On Easter Monday, First night of a new grand Amazonian Ballet, by Signor Costa, with entire new dresses by Miss Knapp. Music selected and arranged from Meyerbeer’s gems by Mr. Henry Tissington. All the premieres, all the seconds, all the coryphées, and forty-eight beautiful young ladies.”
“So many new features keep crowding to view in the spectacle of ‘The Twelve Temptations,’ at the Grand Opera House, that it is difficult to keep track of them all. We hope that a new ballet, as described as ‘Amazonian,’ will appear next Monday.”
“…If large houses be a test of merit this spectacle is an unqualified success. It is not true that the Ninth regiment are to appear in [Twelve temptations]. A Spanish ballet is promised at an early period. Ajax and Mlle. Rose appear to-night in one of their specialties.”
Long and overwhelmingly positive review. No mention of music. “…The people like it [Frou-Frou] because it gives them so much for the money of what they like to see of the most beautiful things in the world. The special feature introduced last night was the grand Amazonian dance, in which the dressing and the dancing are very rich and very unique.”
“The new Amazon Ballet has been hailed with plaudits at the Grand opera House. The name indicates its nature. Feminine charms are prominent in it, and being prominent are potent in stirring the admiration of the public.”
“The Spanish ballet arrived in New York yesterday, but will not appear in the Grand Opera House until Monday week [sic].”
Notes addition of ballet this week to Twelve temptations.