Mollenhauer’s Gala Benefit Operatic Concert for Henry Grau

Event Information

Venue(s):
Terrace Garden

Conductor(s):
Henry Mollenhauer [cello]

Price: $.50

Event Type:
Orchestral

Performance Forces:
Vocal

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
14 July 2022

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

23 Aug 1870, Evening

Program Details

Grand gala night; double orchestra. The orchestra will also play various unidentified selections between each of two parts.

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Chorus, unidentified;  Mollenhauer's Orchestra;  Theodore Habelmann;  Pauline Canissa;  Wilhelm Formes
2)
Belisario, duet
Composer(s): Donizetti
Participants:  Theodore Habelmann;  Wilhelm Formes
3)
Ernani, aria
aka Grand aria
Composer(s): Verdi
Participants:  Pauline Canissa
4)
Trovatore, Il, "Miserere"
aka Ah! che la morte ognori; Ah! I have sigh’d to rest me; Lord have mercy; Preghiera
Composer(s): Verdi
Participants:  Theodore Habelmann;  Pauline Canissa
5)
Zar und Zimmermann; oder, Die beiden Peter, aria
aka Lied
Composer(s): Lortzing
Participants:  Wilhelm Formes
6)
Nachtlager in Granada, Das, "Ave verum"
aka Sunder not the bond; Trio from Das Nachtlager in Granada
Composer(s): Kreutzer
Participants:  Theodore Habelmann;  Pauline Canissa;  Wilhelm Formes
7)
Bismarck
Composer(s): Mollenhauer [cello]

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 23 August 1870, 11.

Includes programme.

2)
Announcement: New York Herald, 23 August 1870, 10.