Anschütz German Opera: Joseph

Event Information

Venue(s):
German Opera House

Manager / Director:
Carl Anschütz

Conductor(s):
Carl Anschütz

Event Type:
Opera

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
25 June 2012

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

18 Feb 1863, Evening

Program Details



2nd performance

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
Joseph
aka Joseph in Egypt; La legende de Joseph en Egypte; Joseph en Egypte; Joseph and his brothers
Composer(s): Méhul
Text Author: Duval
Participants:  Anschütz German Opera Company;  Guglielmo Lotti;  Joseph Weinlich (role: Jacob);  Johanna Rotter (role: Benjamin);  Ludwig Quint;  Anton Graf;  J. Kronfeld

Citations

1)
Announcement: New York Post, 16 February 1863, 2.
2)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 16 February 1863, 7.
3)
Announcement: New-York Times, 17 February 1863, 4.
4)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 17 February 1863, 7.
Performers.
5)
Announcement: New York Post, 18 February 1863, 2.
Announces Der Freischutz.
6)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 18 February 1863, 7.
7)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 18 February 1863, 7.
8)
Review: New York Post, 20 February 1863, 2.
Mostly a discussion of Mehul and his work. “Large audiences have witnessed the two performances at the German opera house of the biblical and religious opera of ‘Joseph in Egypt.’ . . . Great praise is due to our indefatigable Anschutz in getting up such an order of music, and to Madame Rotter, Weinlich and Lotti in their conscientious execution of it. Madame Rotter and Herr Weinlich act and sing to great advantage in this opera. Their personations of the Hebrew character have all the intensity peculiar to it.”
9)
Review: New York Post, 23 February 1863, 2.
“The German opera company has given, during the last week, three excellent performances of Mehul’s ‘Joseph in Egypt’ to very large audiences. . . . Rotter, as Benjamin, and Weinlich, as old Jacob, both made a signal success.”