Strakosch Italian Opera: Aida

Event Information

Venue(s):
Academy of Music

Manager / Director:
Max Strakosch

Conductor(s):
Emanuele Muzio

Price: $2; $1-2 extra, reserved seat; $16 & $20 private boxes

Event Type:
Opera

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
1 May 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

03 Apr 1874, 8:00 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
Aida
Composer(s): Verdi
Text Author: Ghislanzoni
Participants:  Strakosch Italian Opera Company;  Annie Louise Cary (role: Amneris);  Giuseppe Del Puente (role: Amonasro);  Italo Campanini (role: Radames);  Romano Nannetti (role: Ramfis, chief priest);  Ostava Torriani (role: Aida);  Evasio Scolara (role: King)

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 29 March 1874, 7.

“Last night of the season.”

2)
Review: New York Post, 04 April 1874, 4.

“A noble performance of ‘Aida’ at the Academy of Music last night threw into strong relief the best qualities of Torriani, Cary, Campanini, Nannetti and Del Puente. The latter artists sang better than ever before, and at the same time acted with such splendid force that the audience interrupted the progress of the opera to call him before the footlights. The artists were all in good voice, but Cary and Campanini have fallen into the bad habit of omitting the duet at the beginning of the last act. Such music as ‘Aida,’ sung by such artists, is so valuable that the audience does not like to lose a single note of it.”

3)
Review: New York Herald, 04 April 1874, 7.

“’Aida’ was given for the last time last evening at the Academy of Music. Strange to say, considering the terrible strain on the voices of Miss Cary, Campanini, Del Puente and Nannetti which five performances of ‘Lohengrin’ must necessarily produce, the representation of ‘Aida’ last night was in every respect better than any of its predecessors. The tenor was in his best voice and the barytone was fully equal to Maurel.”