Maretzek Italian Opera: Fra Diavolo
Event Information
Venue(s):
Academy of Music
Manager / Director:
Max Maretzek
Conductor(s):
Carl Bergmann
Price: $1
Event Type:
Opera
Record Information
Status:
Published
Last Updated:
26 March 2014
Performance Date(s) and Time(s)
23 Mar 1865, 1:00 PMProgram Details
Performers and/or Works Performed
Citations
“Grand Farewell Matinee . . . In compliance with numerous requests from the lady patrons of the matinees and others, to give FRA DIAVOLO at a matinee before the departure of the company. . .”
“We shall be curious to see how this experiment of a change from Saturday to a midweek matinee will work; but we presume that, as it is the last one of the season, the Academy will be crowded by our suburban friends.”
The Italian Opera will leave us within this week. The company was hired by Mr. Grau and will travel to the west.
“[T]he last opportunity of hearing Italian opera until next Fall.”
“The opera season concluded yesterday with a grand matinee, at which Fra Diavolo was sung to a large and fashionable audience. After a season of over a hundred performances of opera, remarkable for variety and success, Mr. Maretzek’s company took their farewell of a New York audience, and will play to-night and to-morrow in Philadelphia, and proceed from thence to Baltimore and Washington, to delight the denizens of those provincial towns. . . . Mr. Maretzek deserves every consideration at the hands of the public, the artists and stockholders, for his indefatigable efforts to advance the interests of art, and we hope that he will receive a substantial acknowledgement of it in the approaching benefit.”
“The matinee yesterday was a complete succes. [sic] ‘Fra Diavolo’ was absolutely played, and the audience testified its complete satisfaction therewith by crowding the Academy to its greatest capacity.”
Mr. Maretzek and company give a few performances in Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington, and then Mr. Grau takes the artists in hand and inaugurates the Chicago Academy of Music.”
“The last performance of Mr. Maretzek’s Opera Company was given at the Academy of Music yesterday morning. ‘Fra Diavolo’ which has been growing steadily in public favor, was the Opera chosen, with Miss Kellogg, Mdlle. Morensi, Lotti, Bellini, &c. in the principal parts. It was performed in excellent style. Miss Kellogg carrying off all the honors and richly deserving the hearty applause which greeted her. The Academy was packed with human freight in every part, so closely packed was it, indeed, that we could not penetrate beyond the doors.
The closing representations have been brilliantly successful in a pecuniary point of view, and it seems a pity that the company should leave just when the people seem to be fully awakened to the necessity of this elegant amusement. But other engagements having been made, the prolongation of the season was impossible. The company appear in Washington next week.”