New-Yorker Stadt-Theater Opera: Le Nozze di Figaro

Event Information

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

Event Type:
Opera

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
28 June 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

24 Mar 1874, Evening

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
Nozze di Figaro, Le
aka Marriage of Figaro; Figaros Hochzeit
Composer(s): Mozart
Text Author: da Ponte
Participants:  New-Yorker Stadt-Theater Opera Company;  Joseph Weinlich (role: Bartolo);  Edward [baritone] Vierling (role: Figaro);  Miss [soprano] Roemer (role: Countess);  Pauline Lucca (role: Cherubino);  Mr. [vocalist] Lehmann (role: Almaviva);  Elise Heiss (role: Susanna)

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 23 March 1874, 7.
2)
Review: New York Herald, 25 March 1874, 7.

“Mozart’s charming opera, ‘The Marriage of Figaro,’ was presented last night with the following cast [see above]. The fascinating music which Mozart wrote for Beaumarchais’ sparkling comedy is ever fresh and taking, and will be popular when Wagner and his followers will have been forgotten. A more bewitching, tantalizing and resistless representation of the saucy page than Mme. Lucca it would be hard to find. Her glorious voice was particularly effective in the lovely aria, ‘Voi che sapete,’ which she sings in a manner which no one else can equal. The other representatives of the leading rôles do not call for extended comment.”