Anschütz German Opera: Martha

Event Information

Venue(s):
Academy of Music

Manager / Director:
Max Maretzek

Conductor(s):
Carl Anschütz

Price: $.50; $1 reserved; .25 amphitheatre

Event Type:
Opera

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
6 August 2010

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

11 Apr 1863, Evening

Program Details



83rd performance of the Anschütz German Opera company during the 1862-63 season. Called 17th Night of the Maretzek Company, but this was a German Opera company, not Maretzek's Italian Opera company.

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
Martha
aka Martha, oder Der Markt zu Richmond; Martha, or The Market at Richmond
Composer(s): Flotow
Text Author: Friedrich
Participants:  Anschütz German Opera Company;  Guglielmo Lotti (role: Lyonel );  Joseph Weinlich (role: Plumkett);  Bertha Johannsen (role: Lady Harriet Durham);  Anton Graf (role: Tristan);  Minna von Berkel (role: Nancy)

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 11 March 1863, 9.

2)
Announcement: New-York Times, 06 April 1863, 4.
Der Freischutz announced for this date.
3)
Announcement: New York Post, 06 April 1863.

4)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 10 April 1863, 7.
Cast.
5)
Announcement: New-York Times, 10 April 1863.

“On Saturday the German company will give their second performance.  ‘Martha’ is selected for the occasion.”

6)
Announcement: New York Herald, 11 April 1863, 6.

7)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 11 April 1863, 7.

Cast, price.  “German Opera, Director – Max Maretzek… Second and Last German Opera Night.”

8)
Announcement: New-York Times, 11 April 1863, 4.
“The German Opera Company, under Carl Anschutz, will also give a representation of ‘Martha’ in the evening.”
9)
Advertisement: New-York Daily Tribune, 11 April 1863.

10)
Announcement: New York Post, 11 April 1863, 2.

11)
Announcement: Courrier des États-Unis, 11 April 1863.

12)
Advertisement: Courrier des États-Unis, 11 April 1863.

13)
: Strong, George Templeton. New-York Historical Society. The Diaries of George Templeton Strong, 1863-1869: Musical Excerpts from the MSs, transcribed by Mary Simonson. ed. by Christopher Bruhn., 11 April 1863.

“We went with E. and Miss Rosalie to Acad. of music to hear the German Co, do Flotow’s Martha, which they did quite respectably.  The music is superficial but genuine and good as far as it goes—a series of little melodies and concerted pieces, all of them clear, honest, and definite:—and it ranks infinitely above the spasmodic feebleness & the sickly sentimental prettiness that combine to make up most operas of Donizetti and Verdi.”