Ferdinand Strakosch, Opera Impresario

Birth is in Czech Jewish Registers, Bučovice Births, Image #54 of 82; recorded also in Brno Births Image of #21 of 192.

Married Maria Jakobs, born in England; she was 18 and he was 25, on June 15, 1862 in Bučovice (Platzek). Appears in Brno Marriages, 1846-1874, Image #34 of 93.

Ferdinand, like two of his brothers, was also an impresario; he lived in Sweden.

The Sunday Portland Oregonian of Aug. 31, 1902 says "Ferdinand Strakosch was younger brother to Max and Maurice Strakosch, and died in Paris August 2 [1902], aged 62 [actually he was b. 1837]. He was an impresario at Rome and Trieste at the time that his two more famous brothers were dividing honors in operatic management In Paris and New York. Ferdinand Strakosch was the father of Miss Feba Strakosch who sang In 1900 in the season of opera in English at the Metropolitan." See http://oregonnews.uoregon.edu/lccn/sn83045782/1902-08-31/ed-1/seq-2...

As reported in The Register, Adelaide (Australia), Sept. 15, 1902, page 3:

Ferdinand Strakosch, the last survivor of the three once famous brothers and operatic entrepreneurs, died at Paris about five weeks ago. The oldest of the brothers was Maurice Strakosch, Madame Patti's early teacher and manager, who died in 1887. His widow, Amalia Patti, is still living. The younger brother, Max, died in 1892. In the sixties and seventies the brothers Strakosch welded enormous influence in operatic matters, for Maurice was director of the Italian opera, Paris, and was also interested with Max in the American campaigns of Nilsson. Patti, Parepa Rosa, Kellogg, Cariotta Patti, Titjens. Albani. and others; while Ferdinand was impresario at Roma arid at Trieste, arid thus had a certain amount of control over the then powerful Italian stage.