Sacred Operatic Concert

Event Information

Venue(s):
Terrace Garden Theatre

Manager / Director:
Hermann [manager] Grau

Conductor(s):
Adolph Neuendorff

Price: $.50 extra, reserved seat

Event Type:
Opera

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
10 May 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

17 May 1874, 8:00 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Chorus, unidentified;  Orchestra, unidentified;  Theodore Habelmann;  Isidore [baritone] Lehmann;  Ilma di Murska
2)
Fest Ouvertüre
Composer(s): Leutner
3)
Jean de Paris, aria
Composer(s): Boieldieu
Participants:  Isidore [baritone] Lehmann
4)
Faust, aria
Composer(s): Gounod
Participants:  Theodore Habelmann
5)
Pardon de Ploërmel, Le, "Ombre légère qui suis mes pas"
aka Shadow dance; Schattentanz; Shadow song
Composer(s): Meyerbeer
Text Author: Barbier, Carré
Participants:  Ilma di Murska
6)
INTERMISSION
7)
Nachtlager in Granada, Das, overture
Composer(s): Kreutzer
8)
Trovatore, Il, "Miserere"
aka Ah! che la morte ognori; Ah! I have sigh’d to rest me; Lord have mercy; Preghiera
Composer(s): Verdi
Participants:  Theodore Habelmann;  Ilma di Murska
9)
Bohemian girl, The, aria
Composer(s): Balfe
Participants:  Isidore [baritone] Lehmann
10)
"Mein Engel"
Composer(s): Esser
Participants:  Theodore Habelmann
11)
Variations de concert sur le Carnaval de Venise
aka Variations on the Carnival of Venice
Composer(s): Benedict
Participants:  Ilma di Murska
12)
Athalie, "Kriegsmarsch der Priester"
aka Athalia; Athalie. War march; Athalie. Presto march
Composer(s): Mendelssohn-Bartholdy

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 17 May 1874, 17.

Includes program. 

2)
Review: New York Herald, 18 May 1874, 7.

“The initial concert of the summer at Terrace Garden last night, under the direction of Mr. Hermann Grau, was a favorable commencement of the season. The house was crowded and the enthusiasm, especially over Mlle. Di Murska’s artistic rendering of the shadow song in ‘Dinorah,’ was of the heartiest kind. The same artist also sung Benedict’s variations on ‘The Carnival of Venice’ and took part in the Miserere scene from ‘Il Trovatore.’ Messrs. Habelmann and Lehmann and a fine orchestra under the direction of Mr. A. Neuendorff assisted the Hungarian Nightingale.”