Event Information
Venue(s):
Academy of Music
Manager / Director:
Leonard Grover
Price: $1 parquet, dress circle; $.50 family circle; $.25 amphitheater; $.50 extra for reserved seat
Event Type:
Opera
Record Information
Status:
Published
Last Updated:
20 June 2016
Performance Date(s) and Time(s)
20 Apr 1866, Evening
Program Details
Wood and Kruger performed a “grand ballet.†Members of the Helvetia, Wolfsschlucht, and Frohsinn Gesangvereins augmented the chorus.
Performers and/or Works Performed
Citations
1)
Advertisement: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 20 April 1866, 6.
2)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 20 April 1866, 7.
“In the grand ruetli scene the singing societies helvetia, wolfsschlucht, and frohsinn have kindly volunteered, augmenting the chorus to 150 voices, the largest choral force that has appeared in any opera in this country.”