New-Yorker Stadt-Theater Opera: Rigoletto

Event Information

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

Manager / Director:
Mr. Rosenburg

Conductor(s):
Adolph Neuendorff

Event Type:
Opera

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
27 May 2023

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

30 Dec 1870, Evening

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
Rigoletto
Composer(s): Verdi
Text Author: Piave
Participants:  New-Yorker Stadt-Theater Opera Company;  Louise Lichtmay (role: Gilda);  Carl [tenor] Bernard (role: Duke);  Edward [baritone] Vierling (role: Rigoletto)

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 30 December 1870, 2.
2)
Review: New York Post, 31 December 1870, 2.

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.”