New-Yorker Stadt-Theater

Event Information

Venue(s):
New-Yorker Stadt-Theater [45-47 Bowery- post-Sept 1864]

Proprietor / Lessee:
Eduard Hamann [prop.-dir.]
Hermann Rosenberg

Conductor(s):
Adolph Neuendorff

Price: $1.50; $1; $.50; $.30; $.15

Event Type:
Play With Music

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
27 June 2017

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

20 Feb 1868, 8:00 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
Papa Buddendörfer; oder, Ein alter Clarinettist
Text Author: Rethwisch
2)
Zigeuner, Der
Text Author: Berba
3)
Zigeuner, Der, [incidental music]
Composer(s): Conradi
4)
Kapellmeister von Venedig, Der
Text Author: Schneider

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 20 February 1868.

Full cast list.

2)
Announcement: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 20 February 1868, 8.
3)
Review: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 21 February 1868, 8.

Possibly due to the parallel event of the Liederkranz ball, many seats remained empty last night at the German theater. The first piece was poorly received. A rather flat script with several rather ambiguous jokes, and a lead actor who does not speak the required Saxon dialect well did not bode well with the audience. Der Zigeuner, however, was enthusiastically applauded. Rethwisch was perfect in the part of the Hungarian son, down to the smallest detail. His fellow actors inappropriately used an Austrian dialect for their roles.