Strakosch Italian Opera: Faust

Event Information

Venue(s):
Academy of Music

Manager / Director:
Max Strakosch

Price: $2 general admission; $1 family circle; $1, $2 extra reserved

Event Type:
Opera

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
21 February 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

14 Nov 1873, 8:00 PM

Program Details

Verdi’s Il Trovatore was originally scheduled for this evening (even though the Maretzek troupe would perform the same at the Lyceum Theatre), but it was changed to Faust at the last minute on account of Campanini’s indisposition.

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
Faust
Composer(s): Gounod
Text Author: Barbier, Carré
Participants:  Strakosch Italian Opera Company;  Christine Nilsson (role: Marguerite);  Annie Louise Cary (role: Siebel);  Victor Capoul (role: Faust);  Romano Nannetti (role: Mephistopheles)

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 09 November 1873, 7.

Advertises Verdi’s Il Trovatore.

2)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 14 November 1873, 12.

Advertises Verdi’s Il Trovatore.

3)
Review: New York Post, 15 November 1873, 2.

Brief. “Madame Nilsson resumed her familiar success as Marguerite, and the entire performance was well received.”

4)
Review: New-York Times, 15 November 1873, 6.

“In consequence of the sudden indisposition of Signor Campanini, the audience at the Academy of Music last evening witnessed a performance of ‘Faust’ instead of a recital of ‘Trovatore.’ There is nothing new to be said of the representation, which has been written of in these columns time and again, except that it passed off very smoothly. Many good things in this world are not appreciated as they deserve to be until they are lost, and while Mr. Strakosch cannot compalin that the present opera season is at all disregarded, it is certain tht it is only in the future that the excellence of his company’s entertainments will be extolled as it ought to be.”

5)
Review: New York Herald, 15 November 1873, 7.

“The indisposition of Signor Campanini, communicated to Mr. Strakosch at a late hour, caused a change of the opera of ‘Il Trovatore,’ announced for last evening, to ‘Faust.’ No fault can be found with the change, as the performance of Gounod’s masterpiece is one of the grandest features of the répertoire of the Strakosch troupe. It is needless to add to our repeated criticisms of Mme. Nilsson’s Marguerite, Miss Cary’s Siebel, M. Capoul’s Faust and M. Nannetti’s Mephistopheles. Mme. Nilsson last evening won all the applause that her artistic rendering of the rôle of Marguerite entitled her to, and the other artists shared in her triumph.”