Grau Italian Opera: Il trovatore
Event Information
Venue(s):
Academy of Music
Manager / Director:
Jacob Grau
Price: $1
Event Type:
Opera
Record Information
Status:
Published
Last Updated:
23 March 2012
Performance Date(s) and Time(s)
15 Nov 1862, 1:00 PMProgram Details
Dedicated to Madame Guerrabella.
Barili could be Nicolò Barili, the basso, who was in Grau’s Havana Opera Company in 1862 (See VBL3, p.470) or Ettore, baritone, who also performed with the Grau Company.
Performers and/or Works Performed
1)
aka Troubadour
Composer(s): Verdi
Participants: Grau Havana Opera Company; Ginerva Guerrabella (role: Leonora); Pasquale Brignoli; Federico Amodio; Catarina Morensi (role: Azucena); Nicolo Barili
Citations
5)
“That charming artist, Madame Guerrabella, repeats the role of Leonora, in which she won so much applause on her second appearance, at today’s matinee. She will be supported by the new contralto, Mlle. Morensi, and Brignoli, whose míserere is in itself a treat to hear.”
7)
“Mr. Grau gives the first matinée of the season to-day, and dedicates it to Madame Guerrabella. The opera selected for the occasion is ‘Il Trovatore,’ in which the lady made so marked a success on Wednesday last. . . . To avoid, as far as possible, any undue crowding, Mr. Grau allows his patrons to secure their seats without extra charge.”
8)
Review of the first week in general. “The houses, Saturday’s matinee included, have been excellent, and the receipts show a considerable surplus above the expenditures – an encouraging fact, considering the quakings with which the season was entered upon. . . . Guerrabella has captured the hearts of the Academy audiences by her personal attractions and her dramatic talents. Madame Lorini Whiting has, with fewer physical advantages, won a still securer standing with them by an organ of beautiful quality and high artistic cultivation, and Mlle. Morensi has enlisted their sympathies by her splendid natural gifts, her modesty, her intelligence and her professional earnestness.”