Colossal Operatic Concert: 5th

Event Information

Venue(s):
Grand Opera House

Manager / Director:
Patrick S. Gilmore

Price: $.50; $.50 extra reserved

Event Type:
Band, Opera

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
29 March 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

08 Mar 1874, 8:00 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Twenty-Second Regiment Band;  Henryk Wieniawski;  Matthew Arbuckle;  Victor Capoul;  Ostava Torriani
2)
Jubel-Ouvertüre
aka Jubel overture; Jubilee; Feste
Composer(s): Weber
3)
"Tantum ergo"
Composer(s): Mercadante
Participants:  Matthew Arbuckle
4)
Linda di Chamounix, "O luce di quest'anima"
Composer(s): Donizetti
Participants:  Ostava Torriani
5)
Violin solo
Participants:  Henryk Wieniawski
6)
Lombardi alla prima crociata, I, aria
Composer(s): Verdi
7)
Twenty-Second Regiment march
aka March militaire
Composer(s): Gilmore
8)
Messiah, "Hallelujah chorus"
Composer(s): Handel
9)
Nozze di Figaro, Le, aria
aka aria for soprano
Composer(s): Mozart
Participants:  Ostava Torriani
10)
Introduction, caprices, et final sur un thème de Il Pirata de Bellini
aka Introduction, caprices, et final sur un theme de Il Pirata de Bellini
Composer(s): Ernst
Participants:  Henryk Wieniawski
11)
Carnevale di Venezia
aka Carnival of Venice
Composer(s): Paganini
Participants:  Henryk Wieniawski
12)
Traviata, La, duet
Composer(s): Verdi
Participants:  Victor Capoul;  Ostava Torriani
13)
Ariele, finale
Composer(s): Bach
14)
Mignon, "Connais-tu le pays?"
aka Kennst du das Land?; Do you know the land?; Mignon's romance; Non conosci il bel suol
Composer(s): Thomas
Participants:  Victor Capoul
15)
Messiah, "And the glory of the Lord"
Composer(s): Handel

Citations

1)
Review: New-York Daily Tribune, 09 March 1874, 4.

“The Sunday concert at the Grand Opera-House yesterday was enjoyed by an overflowing audience. Mr. Gilmore’s band played as usual. M. Wieniawski was recalled time and again after his marvelous violin performances, and M. Capoul and Mlle. Torriani supplied the vocal music.”

2)
Review: New York Herald, 09 March 1874, 6.

“Three thousand people attended the concert at the Grand Opera House last night. Gilmore’s celebrated Twenty-second Regiment Band played selections from Weber, Handel and Bach, and Mr. Arbuckle gave Mercadante’s ‘Tantum Ergo’ as a cornet solo. M. Wieniawski, the distinguished violinist, was encored vociferously in Ernst’s fantasia on ‘Il Pirata’ and Paganini’s ‘Carnival of Venice.’ The vocalists were Mlle. Ostava Torriani and M. Victor Capoul, who were in excellent voice and received abundant applause.”

3)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 22 March 1874, 7.

Includes program.