New-Yorker Stadt-Theater Opera: Postilion of Lonjumeau

Wachtel's farewell night.

“At the box office of this immense and oddly constructed theatre was hung last night the significant sign, ‘Standing room only.’ The auditorium presented a sight most cheering to the magnificent minds of Carl Rosa and Neuendorf, and to the treasurer, William Seguin. There were about 3,500 people packed in the building, and they seemed to realize the fact that the last night of this unprecedentedly successful season had come. Their enthusiasm was even more demonstrative than on the preceding nights, and the unrivalled tenor—for there is no one on the boards at present that can be placed in comparison with him—was called out repeatedly during the opera. At the fall of the curtain he returned thanks in feeling terms for the flattering patronage he received from the New York public. The opera was the ‘Postillon of Lonjumeau,’ and the great tenor seemed inspired to eclipse all his former efforts. Of the other members of the cast we can mention Mlle. Alma Krause and Mr. Franosch as deserving of high praise.”