Event Information

Venue(s):
Union League Theatre

Manager / Director:
Giorgio Ronconi

Event Type:
Opera

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
9 July 2022

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

24 May 1870, Evening

Program Details

Ronconi announced the cancelation of this performance on 05/21/70, citing an unspecified “difficulty” with the chorus.

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
Elisir d'amore, L'
aka Elixir of love; Liebestrank
Composer(s): Donizetti
Text Author: Romani
Participants:  Giorgio Ronconi

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 14 May 1870, 12.
2)
Announcement: New York Sun, 16 May 1870, 2.

“The Union League Club Theatre will be opened on Tuesday evening with Donizetti’s opera of ‘L’Elisire d’Amore.’ Ronconi will appear in his great part the Quack Doctor. He will be assisted by Miss Hall and some of the best amateurs in the city, who have been preparing for the event for some time.”

3)
Announcement: New York Herald, 16 May 1870, 5.

Brief.

4)
Announcement: New-York Daily Tribune, 19 May 1870, 5.
5)
Announcement: New York Post, 21 May 1870, 4.

“The opera of ‘L’Elisir d’Amore’ was to have been given at the Union League Club Theatre next Wednesday evening, for the benefit of Ronconi; but the favorite baritone to-day announces that owing to some difficulty with the chorus the performance is indefinitely postponed.”

6)
Announcement: New-York Daily Tribune, 21 May 1870, 4.

Very difficult to read; seems to announce the cancelation of the performance.

7)
Announcement: New-York Times, 24 May 1870, 4.

“Signor Ronconi regrets to be obliged to announce that the chorus engaged by him for the proposed performance of ‘L’Elisire d’Amore’ on the 24th inst., having violated their engagement, he finds himself obliged to deter the representation for the present.”