Harrison English Opera: Bohemian Girl

Event Information

Venue(s):
Niblo's Concert Saloon

Manager / Director:
Gabriel Harrison [manager]

Conductor(s):
Theodore Thomas [see also Thomas Orchestra]

Price: $.50; $1 reserved

Event Type:
Opera

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
12 September 2014

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

15 Jan 1864, Evening

Program Details

Chorus of “about twenty”

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
Bohemian girl, The
aka Zegeunerin; Zigeunerin
Composer(s): Balfe
Text Author: Bunn
Participants:  Harrison English Opera Company, The;  Harrison English Opera Company, chorus;  M. B. [manager] Pike;  Miss [soprano] Reynolds;  William Castle;  Sherwood C. Campbell;  Madame Comte Borchard;  George Rea

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 10 January 1864.

2)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 10 January 1864, 7.
“Powerful Chorus, Full Orchestra.”
3)
Announcement: New-York Times, 11 January 1864.

4)
Announcement: New-York Times, 11 January 1864, 4.

5)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 14 January 1864.
Miss Reynolds is listed in this ad; Miss Mary Shaw is not listed.
6)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 15 January 1864, 7.

7)
Announcement: New-York Daily Tribune, 15 January 1864.

8)
Review: New-York Daily Tribune, 16 January 1864.

Brief. “Niblo’s Saloon was a regular crush last night to hear the second performance of Mr. G. Harrison’s American Opera Company.—It was a grand success.”

9)
Review: New York Herald, 17 January 1864.
“Mr. Harrison’s artists gave a second representation of the Bohemian Girl at Niblo’s Saloon on Friday evening, with even more success than on their first night. The house was overcrowded by a most select and appreciative audience. Mme. Borchard and Messrs. Castle and Campbell were much applauded, and certainly deserved all the favor shown them by the public. Mr. Harrison’s enterprise is evidently appreciated by the lovers of music here, and he will undoubtedly meet with the support he merits.”
10)
Review: New-York Times, 18 January 1864, 8.

“The Harrison English Opera troupe gave two performances of the ‘Bohemian Girl’ at Niblo’s Saloon last week, both with immense success. The singers have vastly improved, and the orchestra and chorus were alike vigorous and excellent. We find the following sensible remarks in the Musical Review and World, and we quote them as an indication of the attention English opera is now attracting in art cirlces;” [Quotes MR&W article. See 01/09/64, Articles on English opera in New York.]

11)
Review: New York Clipper, 23 January 1864, 323.
“[W]e are borne out in our favorable comments by the good opinions since so freely expressed by the New York press generally.”