Holman Opera Troupe

Event Information

Venue(s):
Mrs. Holman’s Broadway Academy of Music

Price: $.25 matinee; .15 matinee children

Event Type:
Opera, Play With Music

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
29 July 2011

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

13 Jun 1864, Evening
14 Jun 1864, Evening
15 Jun 1864, Evening
15 Jun 1864, 3:00 PM
16 Jun 1864, Evening
17 Jun 1864, Evening
18 Jun 1864, Evening
18 Jun 1864, 3:00 PM

Program Details



Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Holman English Opera Bouffe Troupe
2)
Bohemian girl, The
aka Zegeunerin; Zigeunerin
Composer(s): Balfe
Text Author: Bunn
3)
Old folks, The, [burlesque]
Text Author: Reed

Citations

1)
Announcement: New-York Times, 13 June 1864, 5.
“The Holman opera troupe (children) announce an adaptation of Balfe’s ‘Bohemian Girl,’ and a comicality called the ‘Old Folks,’ to-night at Hope Chapel.”
2)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 14 June 1864, 7.

3)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 14 June 1864.
“[A] new burlesque, written by Father Reed for the HOLMAN TROUPE, the OLD FOLKS.”
4)
Announcement: New-York Times, 15 June 1864, 4.

5)
Advertisement: New York Clipper, 18 June 1864, 80.

6)
Announcement: New York Clipper, 18 June 1864, 78.
“This week there is an entire change of programme, and as the stay of this very clever troupe is drawing to a close in this city, it behooves all who wish to see them to go at once and not stand on the order of going.”
7)
Announcement: New York Clipper, 18 June 1864, 78.
“Hope Chapel, lately christened by the Holman Troupe as the Broadway Academy of Music, is advertised in this issue to let, from the 1st of July to October, during the absence of the troupe to Canada.  The house, it is said, will hold one thousand persons.”