French Opera Bouffe: Le Petit Faust

Event Information

Venue(s):
Grand Opera House

Proprietor / Lessee:
James, Jr. Fisk

Manager / Director:
John F. [manager] Cole

Conductor(s):
Carlo Patti

Price: $.50 general admission; $1 balcony; $1.50 parquet; $.30 family circle; $8 private box for 4; $15 proscenium box for 6

Event Type:
Opera

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
26 May 2023

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

10 Oct 1870, 8:00 PM
11 Oct 1870, 8:00 PM
12 Oct 1870, 8:00 PM
13 Oct 1870, 8:00 PM
14 Oct 1870, 8:00 PM
15 Oct 1870, Matinee

Program Details

Choreography by Signor Costa.

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
Petit Faust, Le
Composer(s): Hervé
Text Author: Crémieux
Participants:  French Opera Bouffe Company;  Lea Silly (role: Mephisto);  Celine Montaland (role: Marguerite);  Constant Gausins (role: Faust);  Paul Hittemans (role: Valentin)
2)
"Tyrolean ducks song"
Composer(s): Unknown composer
Participants:  Lea Silly

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 09 October 1870, 7.
2)
Announcement: New York Clipper, 15 October 1870, 222.

“The fascinating Montaland, the artistic Silly, the comical Hittemans, aided by numerous other French artists, still continue to attract large audiences at the Grand Opera House, where the performance of ‘Le Petit Faust’ charms the sense of hearing with delicious music, and of sight with gorgeous scenery, shapely limbs neatly costumed and beautiful faces wreathed with bewitching smiles.”

3)
Announcement: New-York Times, 16 October 1870, 4.

“…the only deviation in the performance being caused by the addition to it of the Duck Song, which Mlle. Silly interprets with at least as much drollery as Mlle. Theresa, and without that person’s coarseness.”