New-Yorker Stadt-Theater Opera: Alessandro Stradella
Event Information
Venue(s):
New-Yorker Stadt-Theater [45-47 Bowery- post-Sept 1864]
Proprietor / Lessee:
Eduard Hamann [prop.-dir.]
Hermann Rosenberg
Manager / Director:
Carl Rosa
Adolph Neuendorff
Event Type:
Opera
Record Information
Status:
Published
Last Updated:
4 October 2023
Performance Date(s) and Time(s)
09 Oct 1871, EveningPerformers and/or Works Performed
1)
Composer(s): Flotow
Participants: New-Yorker Stadt-Theater Opera Company; Edward [baritone] Vierling (role: Malvoglio); Adolph [bass] Franosch; Anna [soprano] Rosetti (role: Lenore); Theodore Wachtel (role: Stradella); Wilhelm Groschel [tenor and conductor] (role: Barbarino)
Citations
3)
“The pressure on our columns is such that we can only barely note the appearance of Herr Wachtel, on Monday, in Flotow’s ‘Stradella.’ A vast crowd filled the Stadt Theatre on the occasion, which was one that quite bore out, in every way, the excitement and enthusiasm evoked by this artist’s previous representations. ‘Stradella’ will be sung hereafter, again, when we shall seek to do it justice in detail.”
4)
“Wachtel has made a veritable sensation, and it would seem that every fresh effort on his part adds to his popularity. The production of Flotow’s charming opera of ‘Stradella,’ on Monday night, attracted another of those enthusiastic assemblages that throng the Stadt Theatre on every occasion of his appearance. In the leading rôle the German tenor acquitted himself with undoubted credit, and at time[s] enrapturing the audience with his marvelous vocal powers, and displaying besides the easy and graceful carriage of a finished actor. The support was much better than usual. The part of Leonore was sustained by Mlle. Rosetti, that of Bassi by Franosch, and the bandits Barbarino and Malvoglio being performed by Groschel and Vierling respectively. Altogether ‘Stradella’ was very satisfactorily presented.”