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Thousands in New York Nail San Carlo Opera
Company in World's Most Spectacular Theater
Jones Beach, Long Island, N. Y.
Randall's Island, New York City
Summer 1936
Night sce sho_inothrique inland stage at Jones Beach Stadium, Long Island, New York.
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Colossal outdoor theatre at Ron; Island, .kuilt 1;.y the City of New York,
Carr.:r.n c.pene F: unc vail0 s seesat'enally successful summer season at the new Jones Beach
S'ediurr lr New Yer:. A company of 200 was seen In one of the most spectacular performances
of fb,s B zet masterpiece that has ever been presented.
One of the outstanding features of Fortune Gallo's Jones Beach Stadium summer season in
New York was a huge production of Verdi's "Aida". given by his San Carlo Opera Company to
an audience of 10.000. Mr. Gallo's ten weeks engagement at Jones Beach
attracted nearly 500,000 people.
A Ger:rude Hoffman .ballet presented in ccnjuncti.m with Fortune G :Ilo's sensationally sus.•
cesful summer season of operettas ut Jones Beach Stadium. The Gallo season was hailed
by she New York press a the most important outdoor theatrical and musical venture over
undertaken in the vicinity of New York (,ity.
Magical night scene at Jones Beach Stadium where Fortur•e Gallo created the sensation of
the summer theatrical world by giving a season of spectacular operettas, heard nightly by
audiences of 10,000 from a huge picturesque stage built out over the water.
A unique feature of Fortune Gallo's summer season at the beautiful Jones Beach Stadium was a
series of between the acts entertainments, presented over the water from picturesque boats of
many varieties. Here is seen a gondola with Italian singers, bringing a touch of lovely Venice to
the popular New York watering place.
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Colossal outdoor theatre at Randall's Island, built by the City of New York, and opened by
Fortune Gallo with a gigantic production of ' Floradora." One of the show spots of
New York's park system.
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The Headlines Tell the Story. Comment
of the New York Press
Fortune Gallo's Jones Beach Enterprise —Summer, 1936
"10,000 See Opera at Jones Beach. Throng Enioys Bizet's Carmen."
- -N. Y. Times.
"Opera Or'nui:1 :rt j ' s Beach Draws 10,000. Crowd Entranced."
—N. Y. Herald Tribune.
Th ti I',1.!;J'1 i,i 01, :ti tt,1 !ltui•,r Stars at IonE'F Beach- Fortune Gallo
Present:: 'Tile Student Priii lri li rmaritio Surroundings. -
Robert Garland in N. Y. World -Telegram.
L.uxur, t Ling Island Families.-
--Brooklyn Eagle.
Snc, Going 'Carmen' Charm : Eye and Ear Fortune Gallo Offers Lyric Enter-
tainment in Most Picturesque Setting Ever Devised by an Imaginative
Inirresc,rio." Samuel Chotzinoff in The New York Evening Post.
"The Student Prince sang his story to an audience of 10,000 last night when
Fortune Gallo presented a colorful and spectacular presentation of the operetta
done in the old-time Boxy grand manner." -N. Y. News.
"Open Air Opera Heard By 10,000." Brooklyn Times -Union.
"Another red letter in the constructive career of Fortune Gallo as opera
impresario happened at Jones Beach Saturday night when an audience of
10,000 saw and heard that favorite opera, 'Carmen' under new and most
,. .' N. Y. Journal.
:r;i: :i; : Aliirt :: arc' r rE' Cnh d t tie' eIlthusrastIc applause of audiences
f I;1. r' than 10,000 rnarkin'j a new kind of lyric theater. --N. Y. Sun.
"10,000 I, ycri operetta fans crowded into and filled the Jones Beach Stadium
Saturday night despite the threatening rain. The occasion recaptured the
glamour and romance of Old Heidelberg under the astute management of
Fortune Gallo." N. Y. Evening Post.
"The Student Prince Charms Huge Audience. The house was SOLD OUT which
means an audience of something near 12,000."—N. Y. Daily Mirror.
"Student Prince at Jones Beach Draws
Away. Audience Fills Every Available
"Fortune Gallo's Production of Student
Seats Were SOLD IN ADVANCE." N.
a Crowd of 10,000. Hundreds Turned
Seat for Spectacular Performance."
---N. Y. Times.
Prince Plays to Packed House. 10,000
Y. Herald Tribune.
"Out at Jones Beach The Student Prince Continues to Draw Huge Audiences
-The Wednesday Crowd was a Sellout - More Than 10,000."--N. Y. Journal.
-Well Worth \^Ihih Thc:r::ii,Recernnrended."
--Robert Simon, The New Yorker.
"Gallo Opera ---Summer Sensation 10,300 People Heard The Student Prince
on the shore of Zach's Bay at Jones Beach —Excellent Performance."
-- Burns Mantle, N. Y. Daily News,