Article on the recent opera season

Event Information

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Event Type:
Opera

Record Information

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Published

Last Updated:
24 October 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

03 Dec 1874

Performers and/or Works Performed

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LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Strakosch Italian Opera Company

Citations

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Article: New York Post, 03 December 1874, 2.

Not entirely satisfactory in either a pecuniary or an artistic sense; reliance of the management on principal singers alone; presentation of simple, well-known works, featuring one or two principal characters, rather than really grand operas; neglect of Wagner’s Lohengrin until the final week of the season.