Title: Theater playbill for "Il Trovatore, or, The Gipsy's Vengeance" at the Washington Theatre, January 30 1860
Description: Washington Theatre! Lessee: Mr. W. Rullman, Stage manager: Mr. Aynsley Cook, Leader: Mr. H.C. Cooper. Doors open at 7 o'clock. Curtain will rise at quarter to 8 o'clock. For six nights only the celebrated Cooper Opera Troupe, universally pronounced by the musical critics of the South and West to be the finest combination of lyric artists in the union. Annie Milner (prima Donna Assoluta,) ... A powerful chorus. The orchestra will be efficient and complete, the whole under the direction of H.C. Cooper, late leader of the London Philharmonic Society, Italian Opera, &c. Monday evening, January 30, '60 will be presented Verdi's grand romantic opera, in 4 acts, entitled "Il Trovatore, or, The Gipsy's Vengeance!" ...