New-Yorker Stadt-Theater Opera: Sacred Concert

“The ‘Fledermaus,’ (The Bat) which was produced last evening to a large audience at the Stadt Theatre, has already been noticed at length in these columns.

A Sunday night performance at the Stadt is by no means a Puritanic affair, or one which the temperance men would be apt to tolerate. During the intermissions one-third of the male spectators pour into the spacious lager beer saloon which is connected with the theatre, and revel in their harmless national beverage. It was so last night, and if the performance was ‘no feast of reason’ and ‘flow of soul,’ it was, at all events, a feast of music and a flow of lager, and a very considerable flow, no doubt. The audience were jolly, as usual, and enjoyed themselves heartily, as all German audiences do on Sunday night, which is considered the gala occasion for the theatre.”