11/17 Five numbers were sung by Mme. Tavary and Signor Campanini, and Mr.Damrosch, not having the orchestral parts, played the accompaniments upon a pianoforte. As usual, Mr.Gustav Hinrichs was to the fore with a performance in Philadelphia (on June 8, 1892), the principal singers being Mme. Koert-Kronold, Clara Poole, M.Guille, and Signor Del Puente. On January 31, 1893, the Philadelphia singers, aided by the New York Symphony Society, gave a performance of the opera, under the auspices of the Young Men's Hebrew Association, for the benefit of its charities, at the Carnegie Music Hall, New York. |