Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

This evening, Tuesday, November 15, 1836, the entertainments will commence with ... the favorite opera, (written by S.J. Arnold, Esq.), entitled The Devil's bridge, the music composed by Mr. Braham and Mr. Horn. After which, will be performed the vaudeville burletta, entitled The loan of a lover ... In the course of the evening will be presented a musical pasticcio ... The evening's entertainments to conclude ... with the favorite farce, called My neighbour's wife!

Record ID
418765
Accession number
PMC 1139
Object title

This evening, Tuesday, November 15, 1836, the entertainments will commence with ... the favorite opera, (written by S.J. Arnold, Esq.), entitled The Devil's bridge, the music composed by Mr. Braham and Mr. Horn. After which, will be performed the vaudeville burletta, entitled The loan of a lover ... In the course of the evening will be presented a musical pasticcio ... The evening's entertainments to conclude ... with the favorite farce, called My neighbour's wife!

Published
[London] : S.G. Fairbrother, printer, Exeter Court, Strand, [1836]
Credit line
Purchased on the Cary Fund in 1998.
Notes
Performance for the benefit of Mr. Peake, treasurer. Performers include: Madame Vestris, Mr. Charles Mathews, Mr. W. Farren, Mr. Bartley, Mr. Cooper, Mr. Meadows, Mr. Wilson, Mr. Giubilei, Miss E. Romer, Miss Lee, Miss Pincott, Mr. James Vining, Mr. W. Vining, Mr. Varnold.
Also on the bill: "... the extraordinary juvenile professors of the violin and violoncello, Masters Viotti and Lindley Collins, will play their brilliant variations, and Miss Elvina Collins, (a child only four years old) will perform a solo on the violin, (her second public appearance) accompanied by their father, Mr. Isaac Collins, surnamed the English Paganini."
Associated names
Fairbrother, S. G. (Samuel Glover), active 1823-1855, printer.