Maretzek, Max - Crotchets and Quavers: Or, Revelations of an Opera Manager in America / by Max Maretzek

New York, S. French, 1855. Hardcover. viii, 346 p. 19 cm. Very good condition The author was impresario of 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) a touring American opera company that performed throughout the United States from 1849-1878. The first major opera company in Manhattan and one of the first important companies in the United States, it had a long association with the Academy of Music in New York City where it presented an annual season of opera from 1854 until the company's demise in 1878.