New-Yorker Stadt-Theater Opera: La Juive

“The German Opera Company produced Halevy’s ‘Jewess’ last night at the Stadt Theater, and made with it a success of which they have reason to be proud. They have presented it several times this season, and it is not an opera naturally calculated for a long run; nevertheless, the house was densely crowded and the audience was highly demonstrative. Madame Lichtmay as the heroine, and Mr. Himmer as Eleazor, won the chief laurels of the occasion. The lady, despite some faults of delivery to which we have at various times called attention, has become a great favorite with our German population, and Mr. Himmer fairly won applause, not only by his thoroughly artistic interpretation of the music, but by his admirable acting.  The other tenor part was well rendered by Mr. Habelmann, and Mr. Franosch did justice to the role of the Cardinal. The Eudoxie of Mlle. Romer was a picturesque personation, though nature has not endowed this young lady with a voice commensurate with her beauty of face. The chorus and orchestra were both better than we have heard them in other works this season.”