Event Information

Venue(s):
Academy of Music

Manager / Director:
Max Maretzek

Conductor(s):
Max Maretzek

Price: $1; $1 extra, reserved seat; $.50 family circle; $8 & $10 boxes

Event Type:
Opera

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
28 August 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

14 Apr 1875, Evening
16 Apr 1875, Evening

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
Ombre, L'
Composer(s): Flotow
Participants:  Maretzek Italian Opera Company;  Apollonia Maretzek;  [tenor] Benfratelli (role: Fabrizio);  Gurian Tagliapietra (role: Mirouet);  Adelaide Randall (role: Gina);  Matilda Hoffman (role: Vespina)

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 11 April 1875, 11.
2)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 15 April 1875, 11.

Saturday matinee [later cancelled: see NYTr announcement].

3)
Announcement: New-York Daily Tribune, 17 April 1875, 7.

Regarding the substitution of L’Ombra for Il Trovatore on Friday evening, “It would seem according to Mr. Maretzek’s [illegible] that Miss Saurel, who was to have assumed the role of Leonora wrote yesterday morning to Maretzek declining to play unless certain pecuniary demands were complied with. Mr. Maretzek therefore [begged?] her to remain at home and in very short [illegible] prepared a repetition of ‘L’Ombra’ with the original cast. There will be no matinee today.”

4)
Announcement: New York Herald, 17 April 1875, 3.

L’Ombra was substituted for Verdi’s Il Trovatore on Friday night.