CANCELLED EVENT: Grau Opera Company – Opening Night
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2 August 2011
Performance Date(s) and Time(s)
30 May 1864Program Details
Grau’s Opera Company did not perform in New York from May through the end of August, 1864.
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1)
“Mr. Grau’s Opera Company after a very successful season in the West, will arrive in New York on the 24th of the present month to give opera in this city. The repertoire will include the ‘Huguenots’ with Formes as Marcel; ‘Don Giovanni’ with Formes as Leporello; ‘Dinorah’ with Cordier; ‘Robert le Diable’; ‘Otello’; and ‘William Tell.’ Mr. Grau’s contracts with the members of his company having expired on the 1st of May have been renewed for two months longer. A telegram received in this city this morning, announces the successful production last night of the ‘Huguenots’ at Pike’s Opera House, Cincinnati.”
2)
“Grau expects to open here with his western troupe on the 30th of this month.”
3)
“The operatic enterprise of Mr. Grau, promised for the first week in June, appears to be either postponed or abandoned, as no announcement has been made of the opening of the season. Mr. Grau’s company is lacking in a first tenor, and efforts made to secure Mazzoleni have not been successful as the artist demands a very large salary. Brignoli, it is said, is positively going to Europe to try his fortunes in England and the Continent.”