Complimentary Vocal and Instrumental Concert for Bertha Monis

Event Information

Venue(s):
Steinway Hall

Conductor(s):
Carl Bergmann
Franz Krüger

Price: $1; $.50 extra, reserved seat

Performance Forces:
Instrumental, Vocal

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
28 April 2024

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

18 Apr 1872, Evening

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Orchestra, unidentified;  Rheinischer Sängerbund;  Bertha Monis;  John Rogers Thomas;  William J. [tenor] Hill;  F. H. Wedemeyer;  Frederika [soprano] Rokohl;  Josefina [pianist and violinist] Filomeno
2)
Robert le diable, "Robert, toi que j'aime"
aka Robert! Robert! toi que j'aime ; Robert toi que j’aime; Robert, all I love!
Composer(s): Meyerbeer
Text Author: Scribe, Delavigne
Participants:  Bertha Monis

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 15 April 1872, 7.

The beneficiary was a nine-year-old prima donna.

2)
Announcement: New York Post, 18 April 1872, 2.

Debut of the nine-year-old prima donna.

3)
Article: New York Post, 20 April 1872, 2.

“…Only last Thursday night Bertha Monis gave a concert at Steinway Hall. She is a little girl scarce ten years old, yet she essayed and achieved, with fair success, that difficult aria the ‘Robert toi que ‘aime.’ Her voice and style are far from being matured, but there is marked promise in this child.”