Colossseum

Event Information

Venue(s):
Colosseum (Broadway & 35th St.)

Proprietor / Lessee:
W. A. Lilliendahl

Manager / Director:
W. A. Lilliendahl

Price: $.50; $.25 children

Event Type:
Opera

Performance Forces:
Instrumental

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
2 August 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

15 Feb 1875, 2:00 PM
15 Feb 1875, 8:00 PM
16 Feb 1875, 2:00 PM
16 Feb 1875, 8:00 PM
17 Feb 1875, 2:00 PM
17 Feb 1875, 8:00 PM
18 Feb 1875, 2:00 PM
18 Feb 1875, 8:00 PM
19 Feb 1875, 2:00 PM
19 Feb 1875, 8:00 PM
20 Feb 1875, 2:00 PM
20 Feb 1875, 8:00 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Kate Quinton
2)
Paris by night
3)
Chalet, Le
Composer(s): Adam
Text Author: Scribe, Mélesville

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 14 February 1875, 11.

“A number of chaste, refined, and unexceptionable operettas, comediettas, sketches, will be presented by a corps of artists.”

2)
Review: New-York Times, 16 February 1875, 6.

“…There was an instrumental promenade concert…a remarkable operetta entitled ‘Le Chalet; or, the Rival Lovers,’ was represented. This piece should be heard in a warmer atmosphere to be appreciated, for none of the audience last night could outsit its rehearsal, so cold was the Lectorium. Indeed the whole building was like a huge refrigerator, and many persons left before the performances, which are really amusing, were concluded…”