Article on operatic instruction in New York

“There is no doubt that the forthcoming brilliant operatic competition will awaken an increased interest in Italian music, and that ambitious young Luccas and Nilssons and Tamberliks and Jamets will spring up on every side with the rapidity of the gourd of Jonah. May they be more lasting! They certainly need not be neglected flowers, for there is an abundance of careful professors able to foster their young efforts. New York is to-day scarcely surpassed by Milan in the excellence of teachers who have made a specialty of operatic singing. Gazzaniga, a few years ago the reigning prima donna of New York and the most effective of Violettas—Ronconi, an artist whose fame is world-wide—Errani, an accomplished tenor, whose skill in artistic training is recognised [sic] in Europe as well as here—Tamaro, Alberto Lawrence, Agramonte, and others of marked ability in the profession, are all devoting their time to teaching. To the list should be added Madame Carioli, a most finished vocalist and thorough musician, who, with Madame L. G. Gottschalk, has joined the ranks of the resident profession in this metropolis. Indeed, persons wishing to become opera singers can find every facility in this city. They can hear this season at the two opera houses the most celebrated lyric artists now living, and they can at all times enjoy the best of instruction. Italian music certainly seems to be in the ascendant at present. The prospectus of music sung to English words we shall discuss hereafter.”