Grand English Opera Combination: The Bohemian Girl

Event Information

Venue(s):
Niblo's Garden

Manager / Director:
Clarence D. Hess

Conductor(s):
S. Behrens

Price: $1.50; $1 dress circle; $.50 family circle

Event Type:
Opera

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
4 February 2023

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

07 Nov 1870, Evening
08 Nov 1870, Evening
12 Nov 1870, Matinee

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
Bohemian girl, The
aka Zegeunerin; Zigeunerin
Composer(s): Balfe
Text Author: Bunn
Participants:  Grand English Opera Combination Company;  Rose Hersee (role: Arline);  John H. Chatterton (role: Florestine);  Sherwood C. Campbell (role: Count Arnheim);  Edward S. C. Seguin (role: Devilshoof);  Fannie E. Goodwin (role: Gipsy Queen);  Brookhouse Bowler (role: Thaddeus)

Citations

1)
Announcement: New York Herald, 07 November 1870, 7.

“Mrs. Caroline Richings Bernard, the directress of the English Opera Combination now performing at Niblo’s, has taken our advice in giving up the idea of a change of opera every night. Apart from the terrible strain on the artists themselves, the orchestra was utterly incapable of giving even a respectable rendering of any of the heavy operas in the extensive repertoire of the company.”

2)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 11 November 1870, 7.
3)
Review: New-York Times, 13 November 1870, 4.

“Balfe’s opera always pleases, and for general excellence no rendering could excel that it has had during the present season. Yesterday, Miss Fannie Goodwin once more represented the Gipsy Queen, and she renewed, by perceptible improvement, the promise of a strong, firm and extended soprano voice and a very expressive face first held out as to the position she will eventually attain to. Arline was personated, as hitherto, by Miss Rose Hersee, whose filet de voix—it would be ungallant to offer a translation of the term, since none could render its exact sense—is managed with consummate art.”