Maretzek Italian Opera: Farewell Concert: CANCELLED

Event Information

Venue(s):
Steinway Hall

Manager / Director:
Max Maretzek

Conductor(s):
Max Maretzek
G. Carlberg

Price: $1.50; $.50 extra first and second balconies; $1 extra reserved floor seats

Event Type:
Opera

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
21 March 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

24 Oct 1873, 8:00 PM

Program Details

Music in Gotham assumes Ernst the composer of the last piece on the program, as the citations do not provide an attribution for what they call “National Hungarian airs and variations.”

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Maretzek Italian Opera Company;  Achille Ardavani;  John Nelson Pattison;  Rosa T. [violinist] McGeachy;  Ilma di Murska;  Enrico Tamberlik;  Hermann Brandt;  Enrico Rossi-Galli
2)
Linda di Chamounix, cavatina
Composer(s): Donizetti
3)
Pardon de Ploërmel, Le, "Ombre légère qui suis mes pas"
aka Shadow dance; Schattentanz; Shadow song
Composer(s): Meyerbeer
Text Author: Barbier, Carré
Participants:  Ilma di Murska
4)
Airs hongrois variés, op. 22
aka Variations hongroises; Variations, violin (Hungarian); Variations on Hungarian songs
Composer(s): Ernst

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 20 October 1873, 9.
2)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 21 October 1873, 7.

Brandt is the “solo violinist of the Gewand-Haus Concerts, Leipzic [sic].”

3)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 21 October 1873, 8.
4)
Announcement: New York Herald, 23 October 1873, 7.

“The principal members of the Maretzek opera company give what cannot fail to be a splendid concert at Steinway Hall to-morrow evening. Signor Tamberlik and Mlle. Di Murska both appear, and other artists will participate. Tamberlik will, of course, repeat the great success of last week in concert and in opera. Yesterday both he and Mlle. Di Murska made their last appearance in opera in this city for the present, singing the music of ‘Lucia’ to an enthusiastic house at Booth’s Theatre, and this concert is their farewell. Any one who has not heard either of them should not fail to embrace this opportunity, while by many persons who have heard them the occasion will be regarded as possibly a last pleasure.”

5)
Announcement: New York Post, 24 October 1873, 2.

Brief; announcing postponement.

6)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 24 October 1873, 7.

“Mlle. DI MURSKA being unable, in consequence of a severe cold, to appear to-night, the management is compelled to postpone the Concert announced for this evening. Purchasers of tickets can have their money refunded by applying at the offices where they bought them.” Additional announcement relaying the same information on page 5.

7)
Announcement: New York Herald, 24 October 1873, 6.

“The illness of Mlle. Di Murska compels a postponement of the concert announced to take place at Steinway Hall this evening.”

8)
Announcement: New York Clipper, 25 October 1873, 238.