New-Yorker Stadt-Theater Opera: Le Postillon de Lonjumeau

“The ‘Postillion’ last night was rattled off with excellent gusto. Mr. Habelmann looked like a lovely young rake, sang his best airs well, and cracked his whip with a vigor and success which would have done credit to Wachtel. Madame Lichtmay acted rather better than she sang, but it is only fair to say that she delighted her audience, and the waltz from Gounod’s ‘Romeo and Juliet,’ which she introduced in the second act, was received with especial favor. Mr. Franosch as Bijou, displayed real unctuous humor, and the minor characters were filled acceptably. An opera of this light and amusing character depends more upon the vivacity and hearty cooperation of the actors as a body, than upon the individual merits of the leading artists, and these chief requisites the ‘Postillion’ certainly had.”