New-Yorker Stadt-Theater Opera: Die Fledermaus

Event Information

Venue(s):
Germania Theatre

Manager / Director:
Adolph Neuendorff

Conductor(s):
Adolph Neuendorff

Event Type:
Opera

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
4 November 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

28 Dec 1874, 8:00 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
Fledermaus, Die
Composer(s): Strauss
Text Author: Haffner, Genée
Participants:  New-Yorker Stadt-Theater Opera Company;  Wilhelmine [actress, singer] Rhode-Wollenberg (role: Ida);  Louise Beckmann (role: Prince Orlofsky);  Lina Mayr (role: Rosalinde);  F. [tenor] Schütz (role: Gabriel von Eisenstein);  Herr [tenor] Witt (role: Frosch);  Herr Schönwolff (role: Frank);  Miss [mezzo-soprano] Heynold (role: Adele);  [tenor] Rohbeck II (role: Dr. Blind);  [baritone] Rohbeck I (role: Dr. Falke);  Herr [tenor] Lauber (role: Alfred)

Citations

1)
Announcement: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 23 December 1874, 5.

“To compensate in part for canceled Sunday performances, Herr Neuendorff has decided to allow Fräulein Lina Mayr to perform at the Germania Theater every Monday from now on.”

2)
Announcement: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 28 December 1874, 5.

Brief; notes that audiences will look forward to having Fledermaus at the Germania Theatre. The cast will be the same as before.

3)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 28 December 1874, 2.
4)
Review: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 29 December 1874, 5.

“Fräulein Lina Mayr made her Germania Theatre debut last night. The house was filled, even though ‘Die Fledermaus’ has already been thoroughly done at the Stadttheater. We would argue that ‘Die Fledermaus’ makes a much better impression in the smaller, confined space of the Germania Theater than in the Stadttheater, or at least that was the case last night. The finery of the music and the striking points of the dialog were better appreciated last night, or at least better than ever before. Fräulein Lina Mayr will be a guest at the German Theater on Mondays going forward.”