Event Information

Venue(s):
Grand Opera House

Conductor(s):
Max Maretzek

Price: $.50; $1 reserved seat

Event Type:
Band

Performance Forces:
Vocal

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
10 March 2024

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

24 Mar 1872, 8:00 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Ninth Regiment Band;  Charles [pianist] Pratt;  Josefina [pianist and violinist] Filomeno;  Clara [contralto] Perl;  Jacob [baritone] Müller;  Marie Leon Duval;  Victor Capoul
2)
Reine d’un jour, La, overture
Composer(s): Adam
3)
Morgenblätter, op. 279
aka Morgenblatter; Melodische Depeschen; Morning flowers
Composer(s): Strauss
4)
Faust, "Seigneur Dieu, que vois-je"
aka Faust. Garden scene; Saints above, what lovely gems!
Composer(s): Gounod
Participants:  Marie Leon Duval;  Victor Capoul
5)
"Non è ver"
aka Non e ver; Tis not true
Composer(s): Mattei
Participants:  Jacob [baritone] Müller
6)
Valse
Composer(s): De Murielle
Participants:  Marie Leon Duval
7)
Kirchenlied
Composer(s): Mulder
Participants:  Clara [contralto] Perl
8)
Ernani, selection
Composer(s): Verdi
9)
INTERMISSION
10)
Fille du régiment, La, overture
aka Daughter of the Regiment, The ; Figlia del reggimento, La; Child of the Regiment, The; Regimentstochter, Die; La fille du regiment
Composer(s): Donizetti
11)
Trovatore, Il, "Balen del suo sorriso, Il"
aka Di Luna’s aria; Tempest of the heart; Tutto è deserto; That ringing!
Composer(s): Verdi
Participants:  Jacob [baritone] Müller
12)
Overture de Guillaume Tell [after Rossini]
Composer(s): Gottschalk
Participants:  Charles [pianist] Pratt;  Josefina [pianist and violinist] Filomeno
13)
Martha, "Ach, so fromm, ach! so traut"
aka M'appari tutt’amor; My raptured gaze; Lionel’s air; Ah, so pure
Composer(s): Flotow
Participants:  Victor Capoul
14)
Lucrezia Borgia, "Segreto per esser felici"
aka Brindisi; It is better to laugh than be sighing; Drinking song
Composer(s): Donizetti
Participants:  Clara [contralto] Perl
15)
Dragons de Villars, Les, selection
Composer(s): Maillart
Participants:  Marie Leon Duval;  Victor Capoul
16)
Narren-Tanz, op. 186
Composer(s): Gung'l

Citations

1)
Announcement: New York Post, 20 March 1872, 3.
2)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 21 March 1872, 7.

Capoul’s last appearance in New York.

3)
Announcement: New-York Times, 23 March 1872, 8.
4)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 23 March 1872, 2.

Includes programme.

5)
Review: New-York Times, 25 March 1872, 4.

“The concert at the Grand Opera-house, last evening, was attended by an assemblage which fairly overflowed the auditorium of that magnificent house. The honors of the performance were for M. Capoul and M. Duval, M. Capoul reciting [see above].”