Jacques offenbach most famous work
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Gustav Walter (impresario)
Gustav Walter was a 19th-century German impresario who managed vaudeville theaters in San Francisco and founded the Orpheum Circuit — a chain of vaudeville theaters from the Pacific Coast to the Mid-West.
Walter immigrated to the US in 1865. He moved to San Francisco in 1874, where he opened a concert saloon called The Fountain on Kearny Street. He managed the Vienna Gardens on Stockton Street and then opened the Wigwam Variety Hall on the same street. In 1886, he then built a grand theater on O'Farrell Street which would seat 3500. This was the Orpheum Opera House which staged performances of opera, plays and vaudeville. The prices started at 10 cents for the balcony or children up to 50 cents for a box. This was low at the time and the theater soon became the most popular in San Francisco. Following this success, he opened another Orpheum in Los Angeles and then another in Sacramento. This was the start of the successful Orpheum Circuit which became a major chain of theatres.[1]
Walter overspent on expensive acts from Europe suc
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Bernhard Pollini
Bernhard Pollini (1838-1897)
German operatic impresario (b. 16 December 1838 [N.S.] in Cologne; d. 26 or 27 November 1897 [N.S.] in Hamburg), born Baruch Pohl.
Biography
Of Jewish origins, he started off as an opera singer, making his stage debut as a tenor in Cologne in 1857. He then served for a while as a baritone with the Italian Opera Company in Saint Petersburg, eventually becoming its manager. In 1874, he leased the Stadt-Theater in Hamburg and was able to rescue it from its catastrophic financial and artistic situation. Pollini, who was officially made a citizen of Hamburg in 1888, remained the theatre's director until his death almost a quarter of a century later. His focus was on building up a "star theatre" with high wages for the singers, high ticket prices, and a poorly paid orchestra. In this he was certainly successful, since the Stadt-Theater rose to become an opera-house of European class, even if some of the artists whom he worked with, notably Gustav Mahler (who served as the theatre's principal conductor from 1891 until 1897)
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Daniel Mayer (impresario)
English musician and politician
Daniel Mayer (1856 – 1928) was a German-born English musical entrepreneur. He was three times mayor of Bexhill-on-Sea.
History
Mayer was born in Westphalia, to Gottschalk Mayer and Henrietta Heyman Mayer. They brought him to England at the age of two but sent him back to Germany to study in Coblenz, Cologne and Bonn.[1] He returned to England in 1874.
Mayer married Alice Allez, a British subject, in 1886, and was himself naturalized in 1892, at which time the family was living at 6 Maresfield Gardens, Belsize Park, London. They moved to Bexhill around 1895, from around 1905 living at Collington Manor. He was elected councillor for the town, and mayor in 1905 and again from 1911 to 1914, when he stood down, at least in part due to his German heritage, which was suspect despite their two sons enlisting with the British Army (Emil died from pneumonia in 1918 and possibly never left Britain). Mayer's mayoral portrait was removed from the town hall in 1915.[1]
He was a prominent concert di
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