Midsummer Night’s Dream

Event Information

Venue(s):
Olympic Theatre

Conductor(s):
Anthony, Jr. Reiff

Event Type:
Play With Music

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
7 April 2016

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

28 Oct 1867, Evening
29 Oct 1867, Evening
30 Oct 1867, Evening
31 Oct 1867, Evening
01 Nov 1867, Evening
02 Nov 1867, Matinee
02 Nov 1867, Evening

Program Details

Includes the single songs and overture from Oberon.

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
Midsummer night’s dream, A
Text Author: Shakespeare
Participants:  Fanny Stockton (role: Oberon, with singing)
2)
Oberon, selections
Composer(s): Weber

Citations

1)
Announcement: New-Yorker Musik-Zeitung, 12 October 1867, 152.

Fanny Stockton, former member of Maretzek’s Italian Opera Company, will perform as “Oberon” in Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Olympic Theater soon. 

2)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 28 October 1867.
3)
Announcement: New-York Times, 28 October 1867, 4.
4)
Review: New-York Times, 29 October 1867, 5.

“The single songs which MENDELSSOHN [sic] composed for his opera of ‘Oberon’ are employed in the production at the Olympic, and to Miss FANNY STOCKTON, who made her début as the Fairy King, most of it was entrusted.”

5)
Review: New-York Daily Tribune, 30 October 1867, 2.

No mention of music.

6)
Review: New York Herald, 01 November 1867, 5.

“The beautiful and accomplished cantatrice, Miss Fanny Stockton, had made a highly successful debut on the dramatic stage . . . and will be on the metropolitan boards for a year to come.”

7)
Announcement: New York Clipper, 02 November 1867, 238.
8)
Review: New-York Daily Tribune, 14 November 1867, 2.

No mention of music.