Big Bonanza

Event Information

Venue(s):
New Fifth Avenue Theatre (1873-1939)

Proprietor / Lessee:
Augustin Daly

Manager / Director:
Augustin Daly

Event Type:
Play With Music

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
1 July 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

14 Jun 1875, 8:00 PM
15 Jun 1875, 8:00 PM
16 Jun 1875, 8:00 PM
17 Jun 1875, 8:00 PM
18 Jun 1875, 8:00 PM
19 Jun 1875, 1:30 PM
19 Jun 1875, 8:00 PM

Program Details

The Elfin Opera Troupe performed selections from Verdi’s Il Trovatore and Balfe’s The Bohemian Girl at Harkins’s benefit on Friday evening.

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Elfin Opera Troupe
2)
Big bonanza, The
Text Author: Daly
3)
Bohemian girl, The, selections
Composer(s): Balfe
4)
Trovatore, Il, selections
aka Poptpourri from Il Trovatore
Composer(s): Verdi

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 13 June 1875, 11.

D. H. Harkins benefit Friday evening. 

2)
Review: New York Clipper, 26 June 1875, 102.

“On Friday evening D. H. Harkins received a benefit, when the attractions were increased by the performances of the Elfin Opera Troupe, the members of which proved to be our old friends the Madrigal Boys. They, however, appeared in a new entertainment, consisting of many of the arias, concerted pieces and choruses of the operas of ‘The Bohemian Girl’ and ‘Trovatore,’ which were sung in the English language. Their efforts were highly creditable and received fervid applause, while several of the most popular numbers were redemanded, which the artists cheerfully conceded.”