New-Yorker Stadt-Theater Opera: Faust

“Mme. Lucca appeared last night at the Stadt Theatre in her well known rôle of Marguerite in ‘Faust,’ the house being croweded, as usual. All the salient points of her impersonation of the rôle were as effective as ever, and in the church scene particularly in voice and acting she rose to a degree of greatness that thrilled her auditors and brought forth a perfect tornado of applause. Miss Heiss made a very charming Siebel, Pflueger a commendable Faust and Lehmann an excellent Valentine. The Mephisto of Herrmanns has long since received the seal of approval from the New York public, and was as full of diablerie and picturesqueness as ever last evening. The chorus and orchestra, under the direction of Mr. Carlberg, were a vast improvement on the usual dilapidated condition in which both important elements of the opera are found at the Stadt Theatre.”