Sunday Sacred Concert: Isaac Berliner Benefit

Event Information

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

Conductor(s):
Adolph Neuendorff

Price: “The usual price for the evening”

Performance Forces:
Instrumental, Vocal

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
13 July 2018

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

14 Jun 1868, 8:00 PM

Program Details

Benefit for Isaac Berliner (Officer of the Stadttheater). Included an unidentified Musikalisches Quodlibet, performed by Julius Herrmann, declamation by Magda Irschick, “Glöckchen von Inishabe, Das,” and a declamatory scene by Magda Irschick and Adolph Dombrowski, “Abenteuer auf dem Bahnhofe, Ein.” Eugenie Schmitz sang “Cascadette’s aria” from Le Pont des soupirs.

Performers and/or Works Performed

2)
aka Guglielmo Tell; William Tell; Introduction
Composer(s): Rossini
3)
aka Serenade
Composer(s): Lachner
Participants:  Laura [soprano] Haffner
4)
aka Brindisi; It is better to laugh than be sighing; Drinking song
Composer(s): Donizetti
Participants:  Natalie Seelig
5)
aka Cloud pictures; Dissolving views
Composer(s): Lumbye
6)
Composer(s): Kreutzer
7)
Composer(s): Wallace
Participants:  Wilhelm Formes
8)
aka aria for soprano
Composer(s): Mozart
Participants:  Natalie Seelig
9)
Composer(s): Verdi
10)
aka Seufzerbrucke, Die
Composer(s): Offenbach
Participants:  Eugenie Schmitz
11)
Composer(s): Mozart
Participants:  Wilhelm Formes
12)
aka Marche aux flambeaux; Torch song; Torch dance; Fackeltanze
Composer(s): Meyerbeer

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 14 June 1868, 8.