• The Max Maretzek Italian Opera Company (sometimes referred to as the Italian Opera Company, the Italian Grand Opera Company, or Academy of Music Opera Company)...
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    Opera House. In 1849 he began his career as an impresario at the same house with an opera company of his own, the Max Maretzek Italian Opera Company (sometimes...
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    opera company, the Max Maretzek Italian Opera Company, with whom he continued to stage operas at the Astor Opera House through 1852. Under Maretzek the...
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    Academy of Music (New York City) (category Opera houses in New York City)
    opera season was from October through December 1854. The Max Maretzek Italian Opera Company was engaged by US actor James Henry Hackett. The company performed...
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  • Alessandro Amodio (category Italian operatic baritones)
    United States in the late spring and summer of 1855 with the Max Maretzek Italian Opera Company with whom he portrayed Count di Luna in the United States...
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    Luigi Arditi (category Italian classical composers)
    operas in New York, Philadelphia and other cities with the Max Maretzek Italian Opera Company until 1856. Then, following a visit to Constantinople, he decided...
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    Lola Montez, French conductor Louis-Antoine Jullien, and the Max Maretzek Italian Opera Company. The migration of the city's elite uptown increased during...
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    Rigoletto (redirect from Rigoletto (opera))
    1855 at New York's Academy of Music in a performance by the Max Maretzek Italian Opera Company. Several modern productions have radically changed the original...
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    La traviata (category Italian-language operas)
    first performed in the United States by the Max Maretzek Italian Opera Company on 3 December 1856 in Italian at the Academy of Music in New York. George...
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    Academy of Music (Philadelphia) (category Opera houses in Pennsylvania)
    opera production, and what was billed as its formal opening, a month later on February 25, 1857, with a performance by the Max Maretzek Italian Opera...
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    Teresa Parodi (soprano) (category 19th-century Italian women opera singers)
    fame as the prima donna of both the Max Maretzek Italian Opera Company and the Max Strakosch Italian Opera Company. Admired for her acting ability and...
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    Minnie Hauk (category 19th-century American women opera singers)
    devotee of the opera. In 1865, Hauk began vocal studies with Achille Errani, who secured her a spot with the Max Maretzek Italian Opera Company. At age fourteen...
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    mixing classical and light music. The Max Maretzek Italian Opera Company staged the New York premieres of two operas at Castle Garden: Gaetano Donizetti's...
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    Il trovatore (category Italian-language operas)
    Azucena. Il trovatore was first performed in the US by the Max Maretzek Italian Opera Company on 2 May 1855 at the then-recently opened Academy of Music...
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    Inez Fabbri (category 19th-century Austrian women opera singers)
    she would use her stage name, "Fabbri" (Italian for "Schmidt/Smith"). In 1860, she was engaged by Max Maretzek to sing at his Winter Garden Theatre in...
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    leading vocalist in the companies of Maurice Strakosch and Max Maretzek. In 1857 Escott joined the National English Opera Company, for whom she toured the...
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    Francesco Graziani (baritone) (category 19th-century Italian male opera singers)
    1854, he performed with Max Maretzek's Italian opera company at Castle Garden in New York City. He appeared at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden from...
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    L'étoile du nord (category Opera world premieres at the Opéra-Comique)
    major theatres of Europe, North Africa, and the Americas. The Max Maretzek Italian Opera Company staged the work's United States premiere on September 24,...
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  • Achille Errani (category 19th-century Italian male opera singers)
    Modena. In 1859, after singing often in Italy, Spain, and Greece, he went to Havana under the management of Max Maretzek. He came to New York City in 1860,...
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    Nathalie Fitzjames (category Paris Opera Ballet étoiles)
    she made her debut in Paquita at the Astor Place Opera House as part of Max Maretzek's opera company. Her part was staged for her by Lucien Petipa. Fitzjames...
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    Giovanni Sbriglia (category 19th-century Italian male opera singers)
    at the Teatro San Carlo. He then performed throughout Italy before being engaged by Max Maretzek for New York City's Academy of Music. Sbriglia appeared...
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    Anna Bolena (category Italian-language operas)
    took place at the Astor Opera House on January 7, 1850, with conductor Max Maretzek and Apollonia Bertucca in the title role. It appears to have been presented...
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    Luisa Cappiani (category 19th-century Austrian women opera singers)
    imagining herself to be well, Kapp-Young accepted an engagement from Max Maretzek for the Academy of Music in New York City. The stormy travel to the U...
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    Adelaide Phillipps (category 19th-century American women opera singers)
    States. She made an engagement to appear in Italian opera in Philadelphia and New York City under Max Maretzek, and later went with him to Havana, Cuba....
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    Pasquale Brignoli (category 19th-century Italian male opera singers)
    broken column and a crucifix. The pall-bearers included Max Maretzek and several male opera singers. He was survived by a brother and sister who were...
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  • " Lundy (1963–1998) – singer-songwriter with the Force MDs Max Maretzek (1821–1897) – opera director and composer Galt MacDermot (1928–2018) – musician...
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