Birgfeld French Opera: La grande duchesse de Gérolstein

Event Information

Venue(s):
Fifth Avenue Theatre (1867-73)

Proprietor / Lessee:
James, Jr. Fisk

Manager / Director:
Adolph Birgfeld

Price: $1

Event Type:
Opera

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
31 July 2019

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

04 May 1869, Evening

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
Grande duchesse de Gérolstein, La
Composer(s): Offenbach
Text Author: Halévy, Meilhac
Participants:  Birgfeld French Opera Company

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 03 May 1869, 12.
2)
Advertisement: Courrier des États-Unis, 03 May 1869.
3)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 04 May 1869, 7.
4)
Review: Courrier des États-Unis, 17 May 1869.

“CHRONIQUE THEATRALE. -- . . . . The company directed by MM. Bénédict and Colonne is numerous enough to be prepared for all emergencies. There’s always a combination ready for whatever service it has to sustain, so that the whole weight of the burden doesn’t have to fall exclusively on the same artists. It’s thus that we saw M. Dardignac play Fritz in La Grande Duchesse this week, and get through it very well and with a lot of understanding of this task that’s a bit heavy for the shoulders of Prince Saphir . . . .                                                           Ch.V.”