Barbiere di Siviglia

Event Information

Venue(s):
French Theatre

Price: $1.50 balcony box; $1 parquet; .75 dress circle; .30 gallery

Event Type:
Opera

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
18 April 2013

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

23 Aug 1866, Evening

Program Details

Postponed to Saturday because of “violent storm" (New York Herald 08/24/66.

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
Barbiere di Siviglia, Il
aka Barber of Seville; Almaviva, ossia L’inutile precauzione; Almaviva, or The Useless Precaution
Composer(s): Rossini
Participants:  Leonilda Boschetti (role: Rossina);  Domenico Orlandini;  Ettore Barili;  Giuseppe Tamaro

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 19 August 1866.
2)
Advertisement: New York Post, 20 August 1866.
3)
Announcement: New York Post, 20 August 1866, 2.
4)
Advertisement: New-York Daily Tribune, 20 August 1866.
5)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 23 August 1866.
6)
Announcement: New-York Times, 23 August 1866, 5.

     “Mr. Draper has chosen an unfavorable time for his enterprise, and we are as yet uninformed as to the personnel of his troupe, despite all of which there is ample room for an attempt, and possibly for a success.”

7)
Announcement: New York Post, 24 August 1866, 2.

     “The expected opening of Mr. Draper’s season did not occur last night. The weather was too unpropitious. When the season will open we are not informed.”