Venue(s):
Steinway Hall
Manager / Director:
Maurice Strakosch
Max Strakosch
Conductor(s):
Max Maretzek
Price: $2; $1 or $2 reserved seat
Event Type:
Opera
Status:
Published
Last Updated:
2 November 2023
Letter to the editor with a grievance that the author, who does not attend opera, would like very much to attend this concert, but is unable to do so because it is being held on an evening used by the churches for their weekly meeting.
“An opera concert is generally interesting from the fact that a larger number of artists may be heard at the same time than at an operatic representation. Hence, in point of quantity, the most exacting must be satisfied with the long array of distinguished names on one of these concert bills; but rarely, even in London, are they of much musical value. The quality of an opera concert is of a very inferior order, as the artists neither sing with the same spirit or care as in the opera, and the programme is usually a hodge-podge of everything. The Nilsson management tried one of these concerts last night at Steinway Hall before a rather slim audience, and although all the artists of the troupe excepting Mlle. Duval—who was indisposed—took part in the concert, and were further strengthened by the accession of the distinguished pianist, Mr. Pruckner, and those clever little children, Willie and Joanna Hess, yet there was a feeling of disappointment experienced by the audience. The programme was divided into three parts, the first comprising [see above].”