Aim�e Opera Bouffe: La Fille de Madame Angot

Event Information

Venue(s):
Lyceum Theatre

Manager / Director:
Carlo A. Chizzola
Maurice Grau

Conductor(s):
Charles [conductor] Van Ghel

Price: $1; $.50 family circle; $2 reserved balcony & orchestra stalls

Event Type:
Opera

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
28 July 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

12 Oct 1874, 8:00 PM
13 Oct 1874, 8:00 PM
14 Oct 1874, 8:00 PM
15 Oct 1874, 8:00 PM
17 Oct 1874, 1:30 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
Fille du régiment, La
aka Daughter of the Regiment, The ; Figlia del reggimento, La; Child of the Regiment, The; Regimentstochter, Die
Composer(s): Donizetti
Text Author: Saint-Georges, Bayard
Participants:  Aimée Opera Bouffe Company;  [bass] Genot (role: Trenitz);  Marie Aimée (role: Clairette);  Eugene Duplan (role: Louchard);  Leontine [mezzo-soprano] Minelli (role: Mlle. Lange);  Monsieur [baritone] Dubouchet (role: Larivaudiere);  Monsieur Debeer (role: Pomponnet);  Mlle. [contralto] Kidd (role: Amaranthe);  Charles Kolletz (role: Ange Pitou);  [tenor] Guiot (role: Gadet)

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 11 October 1874, 11.

English and Spanish songs to be introduced by Mlle. Aimée in the first and third acts.

2)
Review: New York Clipper, 24 October 1874, 238.

“Large and enthusiastic audiences assembled nightly during the past week at the Lyceum Theatre to witness the closing performances of Mlle. Marie Aimée and her opera-bouffe company…”