Cancelled Event: Vocal Concert and Dramatic Presentation: J. W. Lingard Benefit

Event Information

Venue(s):
Winter Garden

Conductor(s):
Angelo Torriani

Event Type:
Orchestral

Performance Forces:
Vocal

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
2 November 2015

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

27 Dec 1866, 1:30 PM

Program Details

Grand Operatic and Booth Matinee. For Lingard, because of the destruction of his New Bowery Theater, with a loss of $50,000 (per NYT ad, 12/23/66; see also AN: NYT 12/25/66, AR: NYP 12/28/66, p. 4). [Postponed, due to snowstorm (per NYT 12/28/66, p. 4, NYP 12/28/66, p. 4)]No evidence this performance ever took place.

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)

LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)

Participants: Enrico Testa; Signor [tenor] Baragli; Clara Louise Kellogg; Fernando [bass-baritone] Bellini; Francesco Mazzoleni; Edwin Thomas Booth; Giuseppe B. [basso] Antonucci; Carmelina Poch [mezzo]; Minnie Hauk

2)

Ernani, cavatina

Composer(s): Verdi

Participants: Giuseppe B. [basso] Antonucci

3)

Luisa Miller, romanza

Composer(s): Verdi

Participants: Signor [tenor] Baragli

4)

aka Spanish melody

Participants: Carmelina Poch [mezzo]

5)

Dom Sébastien, roi de Portugal, serenade

Composer(s): Donizetti

Participants: Fernando [bass-baritone] Bellini

6)

"She is not fooling thee"

Participants: Clara Louise Kellogg

7)

Rigoletto, brindisi

Composer(s): Verdi

Participants: Francesco Mazzoleni

8)

Étoile du nord, L', ballad

aka Etoile du nord, L', ballad

Composer(s): Meyerbeer

Participants: Minnie Hauk

9)

Lucrezia Borgia, "Segreto per esser felici"

aka Brindisi; It is better to laugh than be sighing; Drinking song

Composer(s): Donizetti

Participants: Enrico Testa

10)

Taming of the shrew; or, Katharine and Petruchio

aka Bezähmte Widerspänstige; Katherine and Petruchio; Catherine and Petruchio; Catharine and Petruchio

Text Author: Shakespeare

Participants: Edwin Thomas Booth

Citations

1)

Announcement: New-Yorker Musik-Zeitung, 19 December 1866, 314.

2)

Advertisement: New-York Times, 22 December 1866, 7.

3)

Announcement: New-York Times, 27 December 1866, 4.

4)

Advertisement: New-York Times, 27 December 1866, 7.

Includes program.

5)

Announcement: New York Clipper, 29 December 1866, 302.