Operatic Concert

Event Information

Venue(s):
Grand Opera House

Conductor(s):
David L. Downing

Price: $.50; $1 reserved seat

Event Type:
Band

Performance Forces:
Vocal

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
2 April 2024

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

07 Apr 1872, 8:00 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)

LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)

Participants: Ninth Regiment Band; Catarina Morensi; James M. Wehli; Matthew Arbuckle; Josefina [pianist and violinist] Filomeno; Jacob [baritone] Müller; Inez Fabbri

2)

Vêpres siciliennes, Les, overture

aka Vepres siciliennes, Les, overture

Composer(s): Verdi

3)

Puritani, I, selection

Composer(s): Bellini

4)

Lucrezia Borgia, "Vieni la mia vendetta"

aka Alfonso's cavatina, act 1; Haste thee, for vengeance

Composer(s): Donizetti

Participants: Jacob [baritone] Müller

5)

Traviata, La, "Libiamo ne'lieti calici"

aka Brindisi; Drinking song

Composer(s): Verdi

Participants: Inez Fabbri

6)

"Ellens Gesang," D. 839

aka Ave Maria; Ellens dritter Gesang; Hymne an die Jungfrau; Serenade

Composer(s): Schubert

Text Author: Scott

Participants: Matthew Arbuckle

7)

Semiramide, "Ah! quel giorno ognor rammento"

aka Cavatina Arsace

Composer(s): Rossini

Participants: Catarina Morensi

8)

Cuckoo, quail, and nightingale

aka Cuckoo quail and nightingale

Composer(s): Schmidt [comp.-cond.]

9)

10)

Martha, selection

aka Martha, oder Der Markt zu Richmond; Martha, or The Market at Richmond

Composer(s): Flotow

Text Author: Friedrich

11)

Scène de ballet, op. 100

aka Scene de ballet

Composer(s): Beriot

Participants: Josefina [pianist and violinist] Filomeno

12)

Fantasia on Wallace's Lurline

Composer(s): Wehli

Participants: James M. Wehli

13)

Semiramide, duet

Composer(s): Rossini

Participants: Catarina Morensi; Inez Fabbri

14)

Air et varie facilita

Composer(s): Hartmann

Participants: Matthew Arbuckle

15)

Zauberflöte, Die, duet

Composer(s): Mozart

Participants: Jacob [baritone] Müller; Inez Fabbri

16)

Composer(s): Downing

Citations

1)

Advertisement: New York Herald, 07 April 1872, 11.

Includes programme.

2)

Announcement: New York Herald, 08 April 1872, 5.

“The Sunday concerts at the Grand Opera House have become so popular that even the immense building is sometimes inadequate to accommodate the audience. With the Ninth Regiment Band as a rallying point, the managers encourage some of the best vocal and instrumental talent that is obtainable in this city as soloists, and the financial result has been so far very gratifying.”

3)

Article: New York Sun, 12 April 1872, 1.

Manager’s case against James Brown that he and his assistants behaved improperly in conspiring to sell tickets last Sunday evening; manager’s testimony; case adjourned until Saturday morning; expectation that there will be a riot at the Opera House next Sunday evening.

4)

Article: New York Clipper, 20 April 1872, 22.

Manager Joseph Tooker’s demand that ticket speculators authorized by lessee John F. Cole be removed by the police; amicable adjustment of the difficulty between the parties.