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in New York City. Dissatisfied with the singers at Astor, Maretzek went to Europe to create a second company of singers, initially to provide one season of operatic entertainment in 1849–1850 for performances in Boston and at the Astor Opera House. Maretzek described his hand picked group of
European
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Pollione headlining the performance with Maretzek conducting. This theater remained the principal base for the company when they were not touring until the group disbanded in 1878. The company notably presented three classic Verdi operas in their United States premieres at that house:
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Philadelphia from 1857 to 1873, in addition to touring throughout the United States and to Cuba and Mexico. Musicologist George Whitney Martin described the company as the only opera company in the United States to perform with a full opera orchestra during the
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on June 8, 1855. The company also performed that work for its San
Francisco premiere in 1860. The company returned to the Boston Theatre in 1863–1864 to perform another season of opera which included the Boston premieres of Verdi's
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artists as vastly superior to the resident artists that were currently engaged at the Astor Opera House, and it was this group that ultimately became the Max
Maretzek Italian Opera Company. The group of singers was led by soprano
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company that performed throughout the United States from 1849 to 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
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on May 10, 1849, Maretzek struck out on his own with his hand picked company. The company initially tried to continue staging operas at the Astor Opera House, including the New York premiere of
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January 7, 1850 with soprano Apollonia Bertucca (Maretzek's future wife) in the title role. However, bad feelings from the riot kept audiences away and the company moved to the
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where it presented an annual season of opera from 1854 until the company's demise in 1878. There the company performed the United States premieres of
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on July 20, 1854. The company also began touring outside of New York in 1850 making stops at the
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in London from 1844 to 1848, and had come to America in 1848 to become the music director of the
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in Baltimore, and to theaters in Boston. The company continued to tour throughout its history.
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In 1851 Maretzek lost Parodi to his rival, Max Strakosch (brother of
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to perform a season of opera which included the Boston premiere of
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