New-Yorker Stadt-Theater Opera: Faust

Event Information

Venue(s):
New-Yorker Stadt-Theater [45-47 Bowery- post-Sept 1864]

Manager / Director:
Henry [manager] Grau

Conductor(s):
Carl [conductor] Schramm

Event Type:
Opera

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
7 March 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

03 Oct 1873, Evening

Program Details

Strakosch’s troupe performed the same opera on the same evening at the Academy of Music (see separate event entry of 10/03/73: Strakosch Italian Opera: Faust).

Music in Gotham assumes that the “Lehmann” advertised is the baritone O. D. Lehmann.

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
Composer(s): Gounod
Text Author: Barbier, Carré
Participants:  New-Yorker Stadt-Theater Opera Company;  Pauline Canissa (role: Marguerite);  Joseph Hermanns (role: Mephistopheles);  Clara [contralto] Perl (role: Isabel);  O. D. [baritone] Lehmann (role: Valentine);  Ch. [tenor] Pflueger (role: Faust)

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 02 October 1873, 8.

The opera marks the reopening of the theater “after a thorough renovation.” Notes “popular prices,” but does not provide specific amounts.