• PŘERHOF, Heřmann: actor / actress / theatre performer
• unspecified chorus: participating ensemble, vv

The programme is listed in performance order, according to the Národní listy 13/3/1861 report. No further details of this event were noted by the specified sources. The solo horn player was identified by the source as ‘J.M.’ Almost certainly this was Josef Marschner, a horn player then resident in Prague and who participated in various concerts and entertainments as a soloist.

Přerhof first arranged a series of five weekly ‘humorous’ entertainments, including music, in February and March 1861. According to contemporary periodical reports these productions initially proved to be popular social occasions, with programmes comprising spoken declamations (Přerhof himself was an actor), and often quite substantial items of music. Their success probably encouraged the impresario to arrange a further series of entertainments in June 1861 and November 1861. However, these later productions increasingly concentrated upon light music and dance works, perhaps in an effort to court popularity with the public. Unfortunately, rather than gaining in popularity, entertainments in later years seem to have been less well attended. Přerhof arranged no productions during 1862, a series of only four programmes in March-April 1863, and three programmes in June-July 1864. However, a brief Národní listy 24/3/1861 review of the fifth in a series of these entertainments remarked upon their tendency to attract large audiences.