Articles, ad, and announcements on delay of the Grau season
Event Information
Venue(s):
Manager / Director:
Jacob Grau
Record Information
Status:
Published
Last Updated:
20 June 2016
Performance Date(s) and Time(s)
03 May 186605 May 1866
12 May 1866
Citations
Grau informs the audience about the late arrival of the steam boat from Havana carrying his opera ensemble. Therefore the opening ceremony [in New York] has to happen at a later time.
“Mr. Grau begs to announce to the public that, in consequence of the failure of the steamer Evening Star, on which he had taken passage with his Opera Company, to leave Havana on the 24th ult., he was detained there four days longer than he had proposed, and did not arrive in New-York until yesterday (Wednesday.) He will consequently be compelled to postpone the opening night of his season at the Academy until further notice.”
“We regret to learn that the commencement of the Grau opera season has been deferred, owing to the failure of the Havana steamer to bring Mr. Grau’s company at the expected time. We suppose that the delay will be but a brief one, as the members of the company arrived yesterday.”
“Grover’s season of German Operas at the Academy of Music was as brief as the audiences which attended them. The German population are so exercised about the new excise law—which cuts off their Sabbath guzzling and swilling—that they have time to think of nothing else.”
Notes the continued delay of the arrival of Grau’s company, and allowing that “The artists themselves will enjoy and profit by the brief period of rest, after their arduous labors in Cuba, and the public will be more anxious to hear opera again.”