Colossal Operatic Concert: 3rd

Event Information

Venue(s):
Grand Opera House

Conductor(s):
Patrick S. Gilmore

Price: $.50; $.50 extra reserved

Event Type:
Band, Opera

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
24 March 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

22 Feb 1874, 8:00 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Twenty-Second Regiment Band;  Strakosch Italian Opera Company;  Matthew Arbuckle;  Edward A. Lefebre;  Victor Maurel;  Ostava Torriani
2)
Festmarsch
aka Schiller fest march
Composer(s): Meyerbeer
3)
Siège de Corinthe, Le, aria
aka Siege de Corinthe, Le, aria
Composer(s): Rossini
Participants:  Victor Maurel
4)
Polonaise sur le thême favorit de Himmel: An Alexis send' ich dich
aka Air varié ; Air varie; Air and variations on Alexis
Composer(s): Hartmann
Participants:  Matthew Arbuckle
5)
Freischütz, Der, "Und ob die Wolke"
aka Freischutz, Der. Und ob die Wolke sie verhülle; And even if clouds; Agathe’s prayer; Preghiera
Composer(s): Weber
Participants:  Ostava Torriani
6)
Nabucco, selections
aka Nabucco potpourri
Composer(s): Verdi
7)
Nozze di Figaro, Le, duet
Composer(s): Mozart
Participants:  Victor Maurel;  Ostava Torriani
8)
INTERMISSION
9)
Guillaume Tell, overture
aka Guglielmo Tell; William Tell; Introduction
Composer(s): Rossini
10)
Fantasie brilliante
Composer(s): Savari
Participants:  Edward A. Lefebre
11)
Favorite, La, aria
Composer(s): Donizetti
Participants:  Victor Maurel
12)
Crociata in Egitto, Il, selection
Composer(s): Meyerbeer
13)
Mignon, polka
Composer(s): Thomas
Participants:  Ostava Torriani
14)
"Centennial hymn"
Composer(s): Gilmore

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 22 February 1874, 7.

Includes program.

2)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 22 February 1874, 4.

Includes program.

3)
Review: New York Herald, 23 February 1874, 3.

“The third Sunday concert at this house took place last evening, and although the attendance was by no means as large as on the two preceding occasions, yet it was of dimensions respectable enough to warrant belief in the popularity and success of these entertainments. There were three attractive features. Mlle. Ostava Torriani, the deserving prima donna of the Strakosch troupe, sang the grand scene of Agatha from ‘Der Freischütz’ with the feeling and expression it demanded, and showed in the brilliancy and clearness of her voice no trace of the trying operatic campaign she has just concluded in the West and in Boston. M. Victor Maurel, of the same company, created a species of popular furor by his noble rendering of Mahomet’s grand war song from Rossini’s ‘Siege of Corinth.’ Gilmore’s Twenty-second Regiment Band played selections from Meyerbeer, Verdi, Rossini, and Gilmore, and two of the members of this eminent body of musicians, Messrs. Arbuckle and Lefebre, were heard in solos for the cornet and saxophone.”