Galli-Curci Theatre
801 Main Street,
Margaretville,
NY
12455
801 Main Street,
Margaretville,
NY
12455
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1963 photo added.
For sale at website http://www.galli-curci.info/
The Galli-Curci Theatre Building is now for sale, listed with Real Estate Plus!:
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Any inquiries are welcome
Jonathan Starch 646 221 9042 or Jonathan(at)Starch.name
I have gathered a lot more information about the building since I started this listing. Does anyone know how I edit the description? Jonathan Starch, .com
Just posting this so I’ll be notified when someone replies. -Randall-
Is anyone reading my messages? I haven’t heard from you! I spent a lot of time scanning several G-C items and would love to share them.
-Randall-
If you can’t access the three G-C pictures I’ve posted so far, send me your e.mail addresses and I’ll send them directly to you.
Try this link to view the photos: .com
Gerald, I’ve added two photos on photobucket.com under the Album Name “GALLI-CURCI”. I’m a bit inept at this and can’t seem to get those photos to relate to the cinematreasures.org website. Ken, hope you enjoy these as well. I’ll shortly be adding the vintage ad for movies playing at the G-C Theater as well as, hopefully, copies of G-C’s handwritten letters that I own. Randall
I noticed that the photobucket links have an expiration date for some reason. Most of the previous photos posted are no longer available.
Randall, you can add those photos as links. Use photobucket.com as a host. That’s what many folks are doing. Would love to see those.
I have two snapshots of the Galli-Curci Theater made several years ago but apparently this website is not accepting any more photos at this time. I also have a vintage newspaper ad featuring movies playing at the Galli-Curci Theater possibly from the 1940’s or 1950’s. The diva herself owned a nearby home called Sul Monte (“on the mountain”) which is now private property but which I managed to explore a bit before I was politely but firmly asked to leave. However, I believe concerts are sometimes held there even today. Over the years I have made a practice of visiting sites associated with Amelita Galli-Curci, one of which was her home in Rancho Santa Fe, California (which I also photographed) before she relocated to La Jolla where she ultimately died. OPERA NEWS photographed her in this last home for an article about her in 1963, the year she died, a photocopy of which I luckily possess (does anyone have the original?). I knew the man, William Seward, who visited her in California while she was alive and whose insightful interview of her still survives on compact disk (Romophone label). Another friend left me two of her handwritten letters to him and a beautiful browntown portrait signed by her. I have been fascinated and delighted by Galli-Curci’s voice since I first heard it in college many years ago. No voice soothes me more. I own ALL her extant recordings, also on Romophone, including unissued ones (7 CDs). I collect photographs of her, the most fascinating perhaps being ONE OF HER AND HER HUSBAND MAKING A RECORDING INTO AN ACOUSTICAL HORN. Does anyone know if there is any moving picture footage? I’ve never discovered any. I would be willing to EXCHANGE materials mentioned above with any seriously interested party.
To TonyNicole –
Was very sorry to see you close the antique mall. If I might be so bold to ask…what happened? Many congrats to the new owners – we wish them much success.
I found a coupon stub that was apperently give out by Local Progressive Merchants. On the top it says “1933-$640 MASTER CHEVROLET COACH FREE” at “GALL-CURCI THEATRE” will be presented “THURSDAY, OCTOBER 12th-9. P. M."
The stub no. is 32367 also says Series A.
Any info?
the theatre was named galli curci because the builder was in love with her and he had hopes that if he would build a preforming space, she would come and preform. which she did. she preformed there on two different occassions as far as i know. once opening night in 1922 and the other time in the 1930’s.
she did have a large estate in highmount, new york. where she would sing on her balcony and her beautiful voice could be heard echoing through the mountains for miles.
the theatre was closed and turned into an antique store in the early 80’s, and then closed again in feb 2005. i should know…i was the former owner!
When I visited the antique store a couple of years ago I was informed by the owner that the theatre closed approximately 15 years ago (that would be about 17 years ago from now) and that the theatre was coverted immediately to an antique store.
Yes, Sam, but I was curious to know if there was a SPECIFIC connection. And I found out. She owned a home at Highmount and sang at the opening night of the theatre. See this link.
Gerald, I can’t think of any other reason why a theatre would be named Galli-Curci, perhaps to give a sense of class to the venue by naming it after an esteemed star of opera houses around the world….unless, of course, the theatre owner’s name happened to be Galli-Curci.
Was this theatre named after the Milanese soprano Amelita Galli-Curci (1882-1963) who sang at the Metropolitan Opera from 1921-1930?