Doctor of Alcantara

Event Information

Venue(s):
New-York Theatre (1866-69)

Manager / Director:
Mark Smith
Lewis Baker [mgr-actor]

Conductor(s):
Julius Eichberg

Price: $.75; $1 Saturday matinee, children half price

Event Type:
Opera

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
16 May 2016

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

08 Oct 1866, 8:00 PM
09 Oct 1866, 8:00 PM
10 Oct 1866, 8:00 PM
11 Oct 1866, 8:00 PM
12 Oct 1866, 8:00 PM
13 Oct 1866, 1:30 PM
13 Oct 1866, 8:00 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
Doctor of Alcantara, The
Composer(s): Eichberg
Participants:  Mrs. William Gomersal (role: Inez);  John Farley (role: Carlos);  Maria Norton [contralto] (role: Isabella);  Mr. Chapman [actor-vocal] (role: Sancho);  G. Caldwell [vocal] (role: Perez);  Joseph Weinlich (role: Don Pomposo);  Mark Smith (role: Doctor Paracelus);  Sophie Mozart (role: Donna Lucrezia);  William Gomersal (role: Senor Balthazar)

Citations

1)
Announcement: New-York Times, 08 October 1866, 4.
2)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 08 October 1866, 7.
3)
Review: New-Yorker Musik-Zeitung, 10 October 1866, 154.

“Mr. Eichberg has begun the season of English operas last week with Der Doktor von Alcantara (Bon soir Monsieur Pantalon). It was given with a fine cast. Eichberg has added new compositions to the work so that it fills an entire evening.”

4)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 13 October 1866, 7.

“Admission to all parts of the house, $1. Children half price.”