New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-10-02
rEw-rORK ACADEMY OF Music.


80, eminent rnssico d-sruahc artists on the stage
will s-crouriately .rpear on the occasion. The IN
gses,ionsbly superior enterprise az hr. h''Ae" III
procuring Al Opera Company on 2rinier e -e '1ln
We have vet had among u, should be duly Sckn'F-
ec ed on the occasion o. throwing open the o'ors o.
IN Av,ri-qn Academy Of Music for the first trH to
the pubc AMI trust that in the Stage-"vstien oi
the ey enine he. a. an American may enjoy the trst
honor. The doubts as 20 the success Of his project
seem 70 have passed away. especially since BE- has
secured the Opera House in al the fascinanons o. US
novelties and specialtes backed by powerful body
Of wealthy stockholders who feel 2areuth care Tor
The dramatic child Of their creation. built a. Il u, Tor
symposium Of art, tas,e ard fashion, and where Ia,
the feminine lovelness Of community Of
some seven hundred thousand may keep MP
a raking fire under cover Of the muses.. We
may fairly anticipate handsome result - the
speculation in question. and that our Academy VIII
draw well during the entire season. There are ieF
things we would add. which may be broadly stltei
as ertitling Mr. Hacker. company to success BE
sides the fact erywhere recognized, that VI dame
Grisi and Siguor Mario are without rivals on the
Italian stage there Is Signor Suslni. unqnesupnaoly
the next greatest living deep manly voice after L''
blacie. .ho is now near the end OF his career 10
this unequaled principal attraction must be added
some other good vocalists ami chorus perhaps eluA
TO any Of ia size in the world and an orchestra supe-
ror to that of of the principal opera-house' IN
Furope-auong those whico it ranks above we may
name that Of la Scala itsef-to which may be added
that its leader Signor Ardti is unquesuonaby master
of his business The objections to the locality OF
Castle Garden. regards distance from The Cty
ceners and 10 rs little stage and shabby scenery VIII
be removed in the new Academy; and as the dlsid'
vantsges Of the downtown establishment could MT
ruin the musical season il may be safely asserted that
the success Of Mr. Haekeus troupe is above the or
duary drawbacks Of bad locality AMI that IN any
theater capable of holding from two to three thousand
people it would do well. Having now glanced a. the
position and prospects OF the company in question Il
remains for to treat of the Academy of Music Itself
in poipt If architecture and Of the influences which
lie material resources to exercise on the science
and art to which i, is pledged after the irresistible al
lurenents Of the opening season shall have ceased.
The Academy Of Music is an Institution secured by
State charter, carrying on i's face generous ma
tional and artistic purpose-namely the culuvationo VI
Music-the instruction Of American artists IN the
beautiful mysteries Of the lyrical calling, Of course
both az composers and performers and consequently
securing to them Of right. when qualified au Amerl-
can platform for the display of their gifts before an
American public interested 10 the intellectual prog
rees Of their country. This peculiar radical quality
Of the Academy is the main reason which induced tho
Legislature FL ally TO grant the charter, which they
refused the original application for II, certain nom
bers looking upon nothing but theater, without
a special educational purpose. Untl we learn tho
contrary shall believe that the stockholders, their
word being pledged to that effect will make The dill
of their choice opera seats the least con-
sideraton and endeaysr by all means in their power
10 render this American Academy OF Music sooner or
later living truth, great correspondent with ia
name and not hit or miss theatre for the newest
come vulgar adventurer from Europe, rich IN " the
science Of humbug; but that they will make It one
of the for put ing int ectualy abreast with
the civilization OF Europe aud of widening the area
If our Indictment on liberal pursuits, and elevating
the artist only as he can be elevated socIaly and
historically. under an industrial democracy like our
These large and pregnant views of the intent Of the
Acaocmy, render it in estima ion worthy Of beng
an object Of permanent public interest. Without
them it would be a missioner and fraud. II is an
"Acadepy Of Music s. chartered No European
opera house takes nat uame without having school
connected with 1t. We now propose to anayze
ing it on the grounds of taste and also with reference
CT its adoption IN means to the benefeent ends set
forth in lis charter.
Il has been babituOly stated, in the journals and
Otherwise that this Academy is the largest theatrical
building in the world and that it cootains nearly
FIVE thousand seats and the reason given for the in-
PRODUCTION Of many seats, is simply the difference
Of our social and political system compared with the
NJ Euroue which pstahlish orades caataa
there and enable few privileged persons to have
exclusive boxes at the opera in accordance with the
whole excIusiveness of their intercourse. Here how
ever the privileged orders being wantog and there
not being as has already been proved. the stamina
to support prvs,e-bOx system, it believed that
if a house were built sufficiently large to admit at
cheap rates great crowd-far greater than any Eu-
ropean house il capable of hoIdiug-.he opera could
succeed especially if rendered through the English
language literally every season. A house capable Of
holciDg $500 5000 people could sustain company
at average of nifty cents ana certainly the history
of the lyrical drama shows that when the opera is
given in English with good singers, paying support
is not wanting to it i'll New-iork. We'll, the Acads ny
after the delays due its Celebrations is far finished
as to be open tonight, and it has 900 seats, the
largest number Of any theatre opera house 10 the
world. This, however lie but one phase Of the mat.
ter. Are these 900 seats each and ALL such that
persons witness the performance and be properly
accommodated, and is the operahouse the greatest in
the world These questions be easily ans wered.
The Academy Of Muic is 2Oi feet 10 length and ia
feet in width at the auditorium part, and I2I
feet at the stage; hence covering an area Of
2iO2O square feet Of which 100 square feet are the
area Of the stage and its dependencies aud H. 26O
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