New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-01-05

Or-rl GCls 90 bfDFt rcprcs,ntaoE AZ prces within
The means Of OIL and 70 insure The supper q all. We
de-. IN lfksVi. e. exhibit that according 20 ~ char.
ter snd tie statements Of T. projectors. the Academy
n Nu wa de.igned 10 be cpera-hOu.e Of superior
ei2e and ri ador % any before existing here N order
10 aCCommOdate vast nbers AZ reduced ra~- ot AZ
mission and "to encourage and cultivate taste OF
"m1-.c by fgTirhng ac.litir- lor instruction, and by
"rewarjr fr p. forthc best musical compositions;
and We iptc1d 70 examine what Z anything. has been
done BY it, managers toward the accomplishment of
those objects a. well a. what may and should BE- done
The attempts 10 establish an Italian Opera Of
! ihe public amusemcnts in New-York have been nu-
uerous. from the first the year .e5 to the pres
mt tine. In that year and the one following, the
company os Garcia Of which hi, daughter, the Mall
bran, was prna donna gave 70 representations twice
and thriCe a week at tie Park and Bowcry Thcaters
at the following prices OF admission BOxea, SO; pit,
al; Gallery 81 cents The total receipts
! $50. g.. The largest nightly receipt sla62;
| tie smaC-t, $40; the average, s'l7. In those
days the public had the good taste not TO require
new opera every three nights for during that season II
BaTbiert war performed twenty three times Iancred,
fourteen Otello nine Don Giovanni, ten, and other
operas four or FIVE times each. Tie next attempt,
believe. wa. that made in 1899 by Montre--ors Com
panv at The Richmond Hi Theater. In that season
of s. nights the receipts s25,6O3; an average Of
s73l anigh Next the Italian Opera House at Church
and Leonard streets built and during it, first
son Of SIX months IN ls33-34 under Rivainos man
agement the receipts averaged $50 a-night. During
ing its second season Of five months in ls}4-35 under
Porto and Sacchis management the receipts averaged
$40 anigit Tho project Of maintaining this as an
Italian Opera Housc was then abandoned. It was
rented for theatrical purpose, AID in l9n was de-
strOyod by fire.
Sirnor Palmo next erected an Italian Opera-House
in Chamber street, which opened il 1887, with
season Of twenty scyeu nights the gross receipts Of
which were Sl3 5a5-an average Of s5ol a nig.tl.
During the fst twelve nights Of the next at
the same house the receipts averaged $780, and
during the season of 1856 about 500. Pamos
Opera House being voted too small and too far down
town for the fashisnabes, was then abandoned, and
became some years later what it now is-Burtons
Ihcater A hundred and fifty gentlemen next sub.
stribed TO support the Italian Opera for seveny6ye
nights year during five years Upon the strength of
this subscription Messrs. Foster, Morgan and COLES
built very elegant Opera-Eouse in Aston place near
Broadway This house had accommodations for
nearly 500 persons seated viz: in the parquet $685.
in two etace-boxcs g, in the frst-ticr balcony and
boxes 277 in the second-ier private and open boxes
o46 and in the third tier or emphitheater 600. The
five seasons commencing with the Winter 1878 aud
ending with the Winter ls5l52, were given, and the
receipts on the average about $50 a night.
These were all for what may be termed the egiti-
mate attempts to establish Italian Opera a. one of the
institutions Of New-York from 1925 till 1854; beside
these there several chance seasons by Alboni
Sontag and the Havana Company and others, who
had no interest in establishing the Opera in New-iork
but calculated on making large sum in short time and
carving ont Of the country to be spent. The prices
of the above regular legitimate seasons were vari-
Gus ranging from 81 10 81, the last sum being the
lowest charged to the best places Most OF these
seasons ended dsasrousy the expenses exceeding the
receipts. When the five years subscription for the
support Of the Asor-place Opera House expired that
building was converted TO ts present use-a library
It was then proposed TO build Opera-house capable
Of accommodating three times as numerous an audi
cnce, in order TO make the experiment of cheap
Opcra In favor Of building such an opcra-house
many arguments were presented, the Chief OF which
was that II the OPEN could at all be established here
as permanent institution must be democratic, that
is drawing it's support from many people, and not IRON
q limited number 81 private-hnv h"dera' "%d ""@"-'
inriy a house of great size was required By which
numbers could be accommodated at prices OF adus-
sion within the means Of all. Some years before ap-
pcstop had been made to the Legislature for an act
OF incorporation for this object which had been re-
fused il was now renewed and obtained The i"Ho"'
ing clauses from the charter show wha; the Legs
lature deemed to be the objects for which It was
granted
Whereas in the Judgment of the Legislature, the
objects proposed by the persons hereinafter named
cannot be attained under any general law; therefore
James Phalen John Pane, COrtlandt Palmer, Reuben
Wtbers, William G. VI. Waddell, Thomas T.. DAVIS
Charles A. Davis their associates, and all otherper-
sons who may become subscribers and owners oil the
stock hereby created shall be, and their successors
arc hereby constituted and declared to be Corpora
ton and body polite in fact and in law, by The name
of The New-York Academy of Music, for the pur-
pose of encouraging and Cultivang taste Tor MUSIC
by concerts operas, and other entertainments when
shall be -sible to the public at moderate charge
and nv furnishing facilities for instruction in music,
ana by rewards or prizes for the best musical
fLe said Corporation shall have power by their
cornorete name TO purchase, hold and convey real
estate in the City of New York. not exeeeding twenty
lots and TO erect thereon suitable building, win
furniture and properties for such entertainments a.
tbey shall obtain license for from the corporate author
tiles of the City of New ork rooms for instruction IN
music depositores of musical instruments, and such
other purpose. as may in the opinion OF the directors
tend TO carry out the design OF such institution ana 10
transact all such business necessarily appertdlns 10
the erection constructing furnishing leasing, or other
wise disposing OF such real estate anu TIC nPV''
ments thereon.
The stockholders, too, supposed the Academy OF
Music WAS to be democratic theater, to seat com
forably from four to FIVE thousand persons, as ap-
pear from the suboned extracts from their articles OF
association
.. Whereas plot of ground has been obtained for
$50 900 on the northeast corner of Fourteenth street
and Irving place. 2O4 feet Fourteenth street, ana
Io2 feet SIX inches on Irving place, containing $4,000