Strakosch Italian Opera: Faust

Event Information

Venue(s):
Academy of Music

Manager / Director:
Maurice Strakosch
Max Strakosch

Conductor(s):
Max Maretzek

Price: $2; $3 and 4, reserved seat; $1 family circle; $.50 extra, reserved seat; $5 box or front row of balcony

Event Type:
Opera

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
2 November 2023

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

19 Dec 1871, 8:00 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
Faust
Composer(s): Gounod
Text Author: Barbier, Carré
Participants:  Strakosch Italian Opera Company;  Annie Louise Cary (role: Siebel);  Armand Barré (role: Valentin);  Mme. [mezzo-soprano] Cooney (role: Martha);  Victor Capoul (role: Faust);  Joseph Jamet (role: Mephistopheles);  Christine Nilsson (role: Marguerite)
2)
"Bozhe, t︠s︡ari︠a︡ khrani"
aka God save the Tsar; Russian national anthem; Russian national hymn; Lord God, protect the Czar
Composer(s): L'vov

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 17 December 1871, 7.
2)
Review: New York Herald, 20 December 1871, 7.

“Nilsson’s Marguerite has been so often discussed in these columns that there is little to add to our previous remarks. Her recent indisposition seemed last night to have entirely disappeared, and in the garden and church scenes the magnetism of her voice and acting was as powerful as ever. She leaves with us as a memory a portraiture of Goethe’s heroine, with all the strong characteristics of those exquisite pictures of Ary Scheffer and Kaulbach, surrounded by an atmosphere of holiness and purity and vitalized by a fire of love and passion of her own.”