Devil’s Auction

Event Information

Venue(s):
Banvard's Opera House [JUNE 1867-]

Manager / Director:
John de [manager] Pol

Conductor(s):
Auguste Predigam

Price: Orchestra chairs, $1.50; Parquet Circle, $1; Balcony chairs, $1.50; Balcony circle, $1; Dress circle chairs, $1; General admission and dress circles, $.75; Family circle, $.50; Proscenium boxes, $8 and $10

Event Type:
Play With Music

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
19 February 2016

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

21 Oct 1867, 7:30 PM
22 Oct 1867, 7:30 PM
23 Oct 1867, 7:30 PM
24 Oct 1867, 7:30 PM
25 Oct 1867, 7:30 PM
26 Oct 1867, 7:30 PM

Program Details

Full company also includes Robert McWade, H. B. Philips, M. C. Daly, E. Mortimer, D. W. Miller, J. H. Philips, J. Thompson, S. B. Duffield, Fanny Stocqueler, Fanny Reeves, Emma Somers, Ada Meyers.
All actors in the play are American debuts.

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
Devil’s auction; or, The golden branch, [melodrama]
Text Author: Cuyás
Participants:  Giovanni [actor] Lupo;  Domenico [actor] Ronzani;  Giuseppina Morlachi;  Elisa [actor] Blasina;  Augusta [dancer] Sohlke;  Ermesilda [actor] Diani;  Eugenie [actor] Lupo;  Aurelia [actor] Ricci;  Catrina [actor] Corradine
2)
Devil's auction, [incidental music]
Composer(s): Predigam

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 19 October 1867, 6.
2)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 21 October 1867, 7.
3)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 22 October 1867.
4)
Review: New-York Times, 24 October 1867, 4.

No mention of music.  

5)
Review: New-York Daily Tribune, 25 October 1867, 3.
6)
Review: New York Clipper, 26 October 1867, 230.

“The attendance of ladies is increasing every evening, and there is no reason that they should have given it the cold shoulder in the first place, for there is nothing to offend. The matinees are largely attended by the old and the young.”

7)
Review: Courrier des États-Unis, 28 October 1867.

“At Banvard’s theater, Mlles Giuseppina-Moriachi, Blasina, Diani and other sylphs continue to delight the public. These dancing-girls set hearts on fire and make the prices of opera-tickets increase. For the rest, let us add that nothing exists that can shock the puritans. L’Encan du Diable today is a perfectly decent pantomime and the most prudish mother could take her daughter there without peril.”