New-Yorker Stadt-Theater Opera: Lohengrin

Event Information

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

Manager / Director:
Hermann [manager] Grau

Conductor(s):
Carl [conductor] Schramm

Event Type:
Opera

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
7 May 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

07 Jan 1874, 8:00 PM
09 Jan 1874, 8:00 PM

Program Details

Benefit of Louise Lichtmay on Wednesday (01/07/74).

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
Lohengrin
Composer(s): Wagner
Participants:  New-Yorker Stadt-Theater Opera Company;  Joseph Weinlich (role: King Heinrich);  Clara [contralto] Perl (role: Ortrud);  Louise Lichtmay (role: Elsa);  Edward [baritone] Vierling (role: Telramund);  Ch. [tenor] Pflueger (role: Lohengrin);  A. [baritone] Blum (role: Heerrufer)

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 07 January 1874, 7.

Louise Lichtmay Benefit on Wednesday evening. 

2)
Announcement: New York Post, 09 January 1874, 2.

“…The cast includes Lichtmay as Elsa and Clara Perl as Ortrud, both artists singing with genuine ability the very difficult music. It this performance took place in any other theatre, it would attract the general attention of music lovers.”