Maretzek Italian Opera: Jone

Event Information

Venue(s):
Academy of Music

Manager / Director:
Max Maretzek

Conductor(s):
Jaime Nuno

Event Type:
Opera

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
29 August 2018

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

18 Nov 1863, Evening

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Maretzek Italian Opera Company;  Fernando [bass-baritone] Bellini;  Giuseppina Medori;  Henrietta Sulzer;  Francesco Mazzoleni;  Hannibal Biachi
2)
Jone
aka Ultimo giorno di Pompei ; Last Days of Pompeii; Ione
Composer(s): Petrella
Text Author: Peruzzini

Citations

1)
Announcement: New York Post, 16 November 1863, 2.

2)
Advertisement: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 17 November 1863.

3)
Advertisement: Courrier des États-Unis, 17 November 1863.

Don Giovanni and Faust are in rehearsals.

4)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 17 November 1863, 7.

“Twentieth subscription night. . . . In returning his sincere thanks to his friends and the public for the support so far bestowed upon his enterprise, the Director of the Opera begs to state that the present is positively the last week but one of the operatic season.  As every effort is being made to produce Gounod’s celebrated opera, Faust, next week, and as in this great lyric drama Mme. Medori has no role, it is proper to call attention to the fact that during this week occurs the final opportunity of hearing that truly remarkable artist, Mme. Josephine Medori.  The Director believes that he will fully respond to the wishes of the admirers of the unapproachable lyric tragedienne, by announcing her once more in her brilliant role of Ione.”

5)
Advertisement: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 18 November 1863.

6)
Advertisement: Courrier des États-Unis, 18 November 1863.

Faust is already announced as the selected opera for the company’s big farewell.

7)
Announcement: Courrier des États-Unis, 18 November 1863.

Maretzek announces the performance of Don Giovanni on Friday.  “Warning to admirers of Medori: she will not be heard again after this week.”

8)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 18 November 1863, 7.

9)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 18 November 1863, 7.

10)
Review: New-York Times, 19 November 1863, 4.
Jone was performed “with unusual success. . . . Medori was superb, and Signor Mazzolini fairly excelled himself. . . . [Sulzer and Bellini] were equally good. . . . The opera in every respect was admirably rendered.”