Hamlet

Event Information

Venue(s):
Booth's Theatre

Conductor(s):
Edward Mollenhauer [viola-vn]

Event Type:
Play With Music

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
29 May 2021

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

05 Jan 1870, Evening
06 Jan 1870, Evening
07 Jan 1870, Evening
08 Jan 1870, 2:00 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
aka Iphigenia en Aulide; Iphigenia in Aulis
Composer(s): Gluck
2)
Text Author: Shakespeare
Participants:  W. E. Sheridan [actor] (role: Laertes);  Theodore [actor] Hamilton (role: King);  D. W. [actor] Waller (role: Ghost);  Blanche [actress] De Bar (role: Ophelia);  D. C. [actor] Anderson (role: Polonius);  Edwin Thomas Booth (role: Hamlet);  Fanny [actress] Morant (role: Queen)

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 02 January 1870, 2.
2)
Announcement: New York Herald, 03 January 1870, 5.
3)
Announcement: New York Post, 03 January 1870, 2.
4)
Announcement: New York Sun, 03 January 1870, 2.
5)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 04 January 1870, 7.
6)
Announcement: New York Post, 05 January 1870, 2.
7)
Announcement: New-York Times, 05 January 1870, 4.
8)
Announcement: New-York Daily Tribune, 05 January 1870, 4.
9)
Review: New York Herald, 06 January 1870, 7.

No mention of music.

10)
Review: New York Post, 06 January 1870, 2.

No mention of music.

11)
Review: New York Sun, 06 January 1870, 2.

“The music, under the direction of Mr. Mollenhauer, was admirable, fitting, and well chosen. The overture was one of Gluck’s—that to ‘Iphigenia’—and was kindred in elevation of thought and spirit to the great tragedy it proceeded.”

12)
Review: New-York Times, 06 January 1870, 4.

No mention of music.

13)
Review: New-York Daily Tribune, 06 January 1870, 4.

No mention of music.

14)
Review: New-York Times, 07 January 1870, 5.

No mention of music.

15)
Announcement: New York Clipper, 08 January 1870, 318, col. 3.
16)
Review: New York Post, 08 January 1870, 2.

No mention of music.

17)
Review: New-York Times, 09 January 1870, 5.

No mention of music.

18)
Review: New York Clipper, 15 January 1870, 326, col. 2-3.

No mention of music.