P.T. Barnum Presents the Divine Jenny Lind!

Join us for a riveting presentation of the Jenny Lind/Barnum story and enjoy musical interludes that engage the senses and embraces the melodic sounds of a Jenny Lind performance.

Winner of an American Association of State and Local History Award and Executive Director of the Barnum Museum Kathleen Maher highlights the amazing story of one of the most successful collaborations in musical history.

Barnum created a musical and cultural sensation of Swedish opera singer Jenny Lind, whom he paid an unprecedented thousand dollars a night (some $30,000 in today’s dollars) to tour America in the early 1850s. The “Swedish Nightingale” was then unknown in the United States, but thanks to Barnum’s promotion, the singer – lauded for her wholesomeness and devotion to charity as well as her operatic voice – became the hottest ticket anywhere.

Join us for a riveting presentation of the Jenny Lind/Barnum story and enjoy musical interludes that engage the senses and embraces the melodic sounds of a Jenny Lind performance.

No registration required, $5/Suggested donation; Free/members and children under 12.