Richings English Opera: Faust

Event Information

Venue(s):
Academy of Music

Manager / Director:
Caroline Richings

Event Type:
Opera

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
16 August 2018

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

11 Jan 1868, Evening

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
Faust
Composer(s): Gounod
Text Author: Barbier, Carré
Participants:  Richings English Opera Company;  William Castle (role: Faust);  Sherwood C. Campbell (role: Mephistopheles);  Caroline Richings (role: Margaret);  Zelda Harrison;  Edward S. C. Seguin;  David H. Wylie;  James A. [bass] Arnold

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 11 January 1868, 3.

Faust "for the second and last time."

2)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 11 January 1868, 7.
3)
Review: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 12 January 1868, 4.

New York Review...The English Richings opera house performances are attended well and welcomed positively by the audience, except for their fiasco of Gounod’s Faust.