Sunday Operatic Concert

Event Information

Venue(s):
Grand Opera House

Proprietor / Lessee:
Augustin Daly

Manager / Director:
Augustin Daly

Conductor(s):
Auguste Predigam

Performance Forces:
Vocal

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
12 October 2024

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

03 Nov 1872, 8:00 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Ninth Regiment Band;  William [tenor] McDonald;  Napoleone Carozzi;  Emma [soprano] Howson;  Clara [contralto] Perl;  Marie Aimée;  F. [violinist] Padovani
2)
Reine d’un jour, La, overture
Composer(s): Adam
Participants:  Ninth Regiment Band
3)
Rigoletto, "Bella figlia dell'amore"
aka Rigoletto, quartet
Composer(s): Verdi
4)
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
5)
Bohemian girl, The, "Secret of her birth, The"
Composer(s): Balfe
Participants:  William [tenor] McDonald;  Emma [soprano] Howson
6)
Don Pasquale, aria
Composer(s): Donizetti
Participants:  Marie Aimée
7)
Diana's hunting chorus
Composer(s): Arndt
Participants:  Ninth Regiment Band
8)
INTERMISSION
9)
Tour of Europe
aka Musical tour of Europe; Panorama musicale
Composer(s): Conradi
Participants:  Ninth Regiment Band
10)
Trovatore, Il, aria
Composer(s): Verdi
Participants:  Emma [soprano] Howson
11)
Martha, romanza
Composer(s): Flotow
Participants:  William [tenor] McDonald
12)
"Ave Maria," (Vocal version)
Composer(s): Gounod
Participants:  Marie Aimée
13)
Austrian waltz
Composer(s): Kéler
Participants:  Clara [contralto] Perl
14)
Come back to Erin
Composer(s): Downing
Participants:  Ninth Regiment Band

Citations

1)
Announcement: New-York Times, 02 November 1872, 3.
2)
Announcement: New York Post, 02 November 1872, 2.

To include selections from Italian, German, French, and English grand operas.

3)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 02 November 1872, 2.

“Italian, German, French, and English grand operas.”

4)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 03 November 1872, 7.
5)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 03 November 1872, 4.

Includes program; also included an Andante with variations on Scotch melodies, by an unidentified composer, performed by Padovani.

6)
Announcement: New York Clipper, 09 November 1872, 254.

“Owing to the inclement weather and lack of public conveyances the attendance was not large.”