Central Dispensary Benefit: Much Ado about Nothing

Event Information

Venue(s):
Academy of Music

Conductor(s):
Luciano Conterno

Price: $2 reserved; $1

Event Type:
Play With Music

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
6 May 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

30 Dec 1873, 8:00 PM

Program Details

All music listed performed in the course of the play.

The Ernani selections were performed as a “fantasie,” but the arrangement and arranger are not identified in the citations.

The citations indicate a waltz by Strauss titled Studentenbatt, which Music in Gotham believes is Eduard Strauss’s Studenten-Ball-Tänze.

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Orchestra, unidentified;  Mrs. A. E. Holbrook [contralto];  Eugene [tenor] Eilery;  Bella [soprano] Burt;  J. K. [baritone] Draper;  Mrs. J. K. [soprano] Draper
2)
Much ado about nothing
Text Author: Shakespeare
3)
"Sigh no more ladies"
Composer(s): Stevens
Participants:  Mrs. A. E. Holbrook [contralto];  Eugene [tenor] Eilery;  Bella [soprano] Burt;  J. K. [baritone] Draper;  Mrs. J. K. [soprano] Draper
4)
Sirène, La, overture
aka La Syrenne; Sirene, La, overture
Composer(s): Auber
5)
Wiener Blut, op. 354
aka Viennese blue blood
Composer(s): Strauss
6)
An der schönen, blauen Donau, op. 314
aka Blue Danube
Composer(s): Strauss
7)
Ballet comique de la royne, "Clochette"
aka Amaryllis
Composer(s): Beaujoyeulx
8)
Ernani, selections
aka potpourri
Composer(s): Verdi
9)
Sommernachtstraum, Ein, "Hochzeitsmarsch"
aka Midsummer night's dream, A; wedding march
Composer(s): Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
10)
Studenten-Ball-Tänze, op. 101
Composer(s): Strauss

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 28 December 1873, 9.
2)
Announcement: New York Post, 30 December 1873, 2.

No mention of music.

3)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 30 December 1873, 7.
4)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 30 December 1873, 2.

Full cast and works lists.

5)
Review: New York Post, 31 December 1873, 2.

No mention of music.

6)
Review: New York Herald, 31 December 1873, 5.

No mention of music.