New-Yorker Stadt-Theater Opera: Il trovatore

“The enthusiasm of our German friends at the Stadt Theatre continues unabated. Their great German tenor stirs the depths of their inner consciousness with his magnificent voice, and this organ was never in greater power than last evening in ‘Trovatore,’ wherein Wachtel revived the triumphs of his one evening at the Academy of Music with Parepa. The aria in which he drew the sword and ran up to the high C (with an ease and brilliancy quite unlike those piratical falsettos who commit murder on the high C) drew down deafening applause, and he was good enough to do it all over again, the sword and the C in alt., with a decided expression on the part of the audience of their desire that he would yet a third time gratify and exhilarate them with his musical frenzy. Wachtel impresses the public more and more with his reserve force, and with the excellent orchestra and corps of singers at the Stadt Theatre, we see no reason why he should not go on singing there all winter.”