1867 | Music
Music
Opera: Don Carlos 3/11 at the Paris Opéra, with music by Giuseppe Verdi, libretto from the Friedrich von Schiller play of 1787; La Grande-Duchesse de Gerolstein 4/12 at the Théâtre des Variétés, Paris, with Hortense Schneider creating the title role, music by Jacques Offenbach, libretto by Ludovic Halévy and Henri Meilhac (the opera draws enormous crowds, including virtually all the crowned heads of Europe, throughout the exhibition year); Roméo et Juliette 4/27 at the Théâtre-Lyrique, Paris, with music by Charles Gounod, libretto from the Shakespeare tragedy of 1595; Cox and Box (or The Long-Lost Brother) 5/11 at London's Adelphi Theatre, with music by London church organist Arthur S. (Seymour) Sullivan, 25, libretto by F. C. Burnard based on the 1847 John Maddison Morton farce Box and Cox; Clara Kellogg makes her London debut 11/2 singing the role of Marguerite in the 1859 Gounod opera Faust.
First performance: "The Blue Danube Waltz" ("An der Schonen Blauen Daonau") by Johann Strauss 2/15 at Vienna, with lyrics from a poem by Karl Beck, 50. Sung by the Viennese Male Singing Society, the new waltz creates a sensation.
The New England Conservatory of Music is founded at Boston.
The Cincinnati Conservatory of Music is founded.
Popular songs: "The Little Brown Jug" by Philadelphia songwriter R. E. Eastburn (Joseph Eastburn Winner), 32, whose older brother Septimus wrote the lyrics to "Listen to the Mocking Bird" in 1855.