New-Yorker Stadt-Theater Opera: Les Huguenots

Event Information

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

Event Type:
Opera

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
17 December 2022

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

19 Sep 1870, Evening
23 Sep 1870, Evening

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
Huguenots, Les
aka Hugenotten
Composer(s): Meyerbeer
Text Author: Scribe
Participants:  New-Yorker Stadt-Theater Opera Company;  Louise Lichtmay (role: Valentin);  Carl [tenor] Bernard (role: Raoul);  Adolph [bass] Franosch (role: Marcel);  Theodore Habelmann

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 18 September 1870, 7.

For Monday.

2)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 23 September 1870, 7.

For Friday.

3)
Review: New York Post, 24 September 1870, 2.

“There was at the Stadt Theatre last night a very fair performance of ‘The Huguenots,’ the work of Meyerbeer, which the great composer himself deemed his best. Mlle. Lichtmay was the Valentin of the evening, and her rich, powerful voice was quite equal to the requirements of the music. Mr. Bernard did his best with the difficult part of Raoul. Mr. Franosch made an effective Marcel, and to these three artists the chief merit of the performance may be attributed. Mr. Habelmann in one of the minor parts rendered efficient aid, and the encore awarded to the rataplan chorus was owing chiefly to the obligato tenor part, which he sang excellently.

“The house was crowded and the audience enthusiastic. The chief need of the Stadt Theatre, at present, is means of ventilation.”