Strakosch Italian Opera: Mignon

Event Information

Venue(s):
Academy of Music

Manager / Director:
Maurice Strakosch
Max Strakosch

Conductor(s):
Max Maretzek

Price: $2; $3 and 4, reserved seat; $1 family circle; $.50 extra, reserved seat; $5 box or front row of balcony

Event Type:
Opera

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
31 October 2023

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

11 Dec 1871, 8:00 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
Mignon
Composer(s): Thomas
Text Author: Barbier, Carré
Participants:  Strakosch Italian Opera Company;  [tenor] Lyall;  Marie Leon Duval;  Victor Capoul;  Joseph Jamet;  Domenico Coletti;  Antoinette Ronconi;  Christine Nilsson (role: Mignon)

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 08 December 1871, 7.

Decision to postpone the company’s departure for Philadelphia.

2)
Announcement: New-York Times, 08 December 1871, 5.

Announcement that the season will be prolonged by one week.

3)
Review: New-York Times, 12 December 1871, 1.

“The supplementary season of Italian opera, which Mr. Strakosch has resolved upon giving under pressure of the exceptional success of the first series of subscription representations, was commenced, last evening, by a performance of ‘Mignon,’ which passed off quite as brilliantly, in respect of recital and audience, as the earlier rehearsals of that now popular work.”