San Francisco Minstrels

Event Information

Venue(s):
San Francisco Opera House

Event Type:
Minstrel

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
22 November 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

15 Mar 1875, Evening
16 Mar 1875, Evening
17 Mar 1875, Evening
18 Mar 1875, Evening
19 Mar 1875, Evening
20 Mar 1875, Evening
20 Mar 1875, 2:00 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)

LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)

Participants: San Francisco Minstrels; Eugene [minstrel baritone] Tremaine

2)

"Mother, is the old home lonely?"

Composer(s): Blake

Text Author: French

Participants: Eugene [minstrel baritone] Tremaine

3)

Ristori as My dear

aka Ristori's Medea

4)

Two orphans, The, [burlesque]

5)

Arrival of Albani

aka Black nightingale

6)

Othello and Macbeth

7)

Composer(s): Maas

Text Author: Maas

Citations

1)

Advertisement: New-York Times, 14 March 1875, 11.

2)

Review: New-York Daily Tribune, 17 March 1875, 7.

“The standard of first-class minstrelsy is maintained at the cheerful opera house of Messrs. Birch and Backus—which is a sort of established church of Ethiopian fooling. A burlesque of Ristori’s Medea is just now one of the most prominent merry features of the minstrel performance here given.”

3)

Review: New York Clipper, 27 March 1875, 414.

Program changes since last week; “The average attendance has been moderately good.”