Venue(s):
New-Yorker Stadt-Theater [45-47 Bowery- post-Sept 1864]
Manager / Director:
Mr. Rosenburg
Conductor(s):
Adolph Neuendorff
Event Type:
Opera
Status:
Published
Last Updated:
27 May 2023
Part of a longer article on the continuing success of the German opera company.
“. . . Last night a performance of Verdi’s ‘Rigoletto’ was given, with Herr Bierling [Vierling] as the court jester. The opera was not given as well as usual by this troupe. The voices—excepting that of Madame Lichtmay, who seems to know no fatigue—appeared weak, as from overwork; the tenor, Herr Bernard, being especially ineffective, though generally he does admirably. The orchestra is open to the same criticisms we have previously urged against it; to wit, a lack of delicacy in the lighter accompaniments where delicacy is specially needed.”