Colossal Operatic Concert: 6th

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:
2 May 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

15 Mar 1874, 8:00 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Twenty-Second Regiment Band;  New-Yorker Stadt-Theater, chorus;  Henryk Wieniawski;  Antonia Henne [contralto];  Matthew Arbuckle;  Edward [baritone] Vierling;  Edward A. Lefebre;  Jacob [tenor] Graf;  Isabella Brush
2)
Tannhäuser, "Freudig begrüssen wir die edle Halle," Allegro [arr. Hamm]
aka Tannhauser, “Freudig begrüssen wir die edle Halle,” Allegro [arr. Hamm]
Composer(s): Wagner
3)
Saxophone solo
Participants:  Edward A. Lefebre
4)
Faust, "Je ris de me voir si belle"
aka Jewel song; Air de bijoux; O Dieu! Que de bijoux
Composer(s): Gounod
Participants:  Isabella Brush
5)
Concerto, violin, op. 64, E minor
Composer(s): Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
Participants:  Henryk Wieniawski
6)
Martha, finale
Composer(s): Flotow
7)
INTERMISSION
8)
Preciosa, overture
Composer(s): Weber
9)
Attila, "Te sol quest’anima"
aka To thee my heart belongeth; Praise ye the lord
Composer(s): Verdi
Participants:  Antonia Henne [contralto];  Edward [baritone] Vierling;  Jacob [tenor] Graf
10)
Air et varie facilita
aka Facilite
Composer(s): Hartmann
Participants:  Matthew Arbuckle
11)
"Wohin ich geh', gehst du mit mir"
aka Where e'er I go, thou goest with me
Composer(s): Abt
Participants:  Jacob [tenor] Graf
12)
Palpiti, I
Composer(s): Paganini
Participants:  Henryk Wieniawski
13)
Lucrezia Borgia, "Segreto per esser felici"
aka Brindisi; It is better to laugh than be sighing; Drinking song
Composer(s): Donizetti
Participants:  Antonia Henne [contralto]
14)
Ernani, act 3, finale
Composer(s): Verdi

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 15 March 1874, 7.

Includes program.

2)
Review: New York Herald, 16 March 1874, 3.

“The concert at the Grand Opera House last evening was not as largely attended as on the preceding Sunday, although the attractions were in no wise inferior. Gilmore’s band, the best military organization of the kind we have in this country, played [see above]. The soloists were [see above]. A chorus from the German Opera also appeared in the finales to the third acts of ‘Martha’ and ‘Ernani.’ Miss Brush won considerable applause for her very artistic rendering of the air des Bijoux, from ‘Faust.’ She is a young artist of great promise, and possesses a voice of rare sweetness and tone.”