French Opera Bouffe

Event Information

Venue(s):
Grand Opera House

Proprietor / Lessee:
James, Jr. Fisk

Manager / Director:
John F. [manager] Cole

Conductor(s):
Carlo Patti

Event Type:
Opera

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
20 September 2023

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

23 Feb 1871, Evening

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  French Opera Company;  Monsieur [tenor] Girrebeuck;  Constant Gausins;  Marie Aimée
2)
Grande duchesse de Gérolstein, La, act 2
Composer(s): Offenbach
3)
Périchole, La, act 1
aka Perichole, La, act 1
Composer(s): Offenbach
4)
Barbe-bleue, act 2
Composer(s): Offenbach

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 23 February 1871, 2.
2)
Review: New York Post, 24 February 1871, 1.

“Two ‘lost pleiades’ have dropped from the firmament of opera bouffe. Montaland and Silly have both left the company at the Grand Opera House, and the burden of the performances now falls on Aimée and Persini, who are singing nightly with acceptation to the public. Of late the programmes at this establishment have been of a rather mixed order, several acts from different operas by Offenbach being served up in the same evening in a sort of operatic hash, which by the way forms a not unpalatable musical dish. To thus treat the operas of composers like Bellini or Donizetti or Verdi, would be sacrilege; but Offenbach’s music, at the best, is but pretty nonsense, and it does not make much matter in what order it may be presented.”