Event Information

Venue(s):
Academy of Music

Manager / Director:
Max Strakosch

Conductor(s):
S. Behrens

Event Type:
Opera

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
24 October 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

01 Dec 1874, 8:00 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
Composer(s): Gounod
Text Author: Barbier, Carré
Participants:  Strakosch Italian Opera Company;  Gustavus F. Hall (role: Wagner);  Annie Louise Cary (role: Siebel);  Mme. [mezzo-soprano] Cooney;  Marie Heilbron (role: Marguerite);  [bass] Fiorini (role: Mephistopheles);  Alberto de Bassini (role: Faust);  Gurian Tagliapietra (role: Valentine)

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 01 December 1874, 6.
2)
Announcement: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 01 December 1874, 5.

Brief; notes participation of Strakosch company members.

3)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 01 December 1874, 7.

Cast list. 

4)
Announcement: New York Clipper, 12 December 1874, 294.

Benefit for the Bikeer Cholim Society.