Anschütz German Opera: Fidelio

Event Information

Venue(s):
Academy of Music

Conductor(s):
Carl Anschütz

Price: $.50 to all parts of the house

Event Type:
Opera

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
25 July 2014

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

12 Dec 1863, Matinee

Program Details



Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
aka Leonore, oder Der Triumph der ehelichen Liebe; Leonore, or The Triumph of Married Love; Fidelio, oder Die eheliche Liebe;
Conductor: Anschütz, Carl
Composer(s): Beethoven
Text Author: Sonnleithner
Participants:  Joseph Weinlich (role: Rocco);  Bertha Johannsen (role: Leonore);  Anton Graf (role: Fernando);  Heinrich Steinecke (role: Pizarro);  Theodore Habelmann (role: Jacquino);  Pauline Canissa (role: Marceline);  Franz Himmer (role: Florestan)

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 10 December 1863, 6.
2)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 11 December 1863.

3)
Announcement: New York Post, 11 December 1863, 2.

4)
Advertisement: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 11 December 1863, 6.
5)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 12 December 1863, 9.

6)
Advertisement: Courrier des États-Unis, 12 December 1863.

Fidelio will be repeated by general demand.

7)
Advertisement: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 12 December 1863, 6.

8)
Announcement: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 12 December 1863, 8.

 “This afternoon, a matinee will take place at the Academy of Music, which will satisfy demands for equity. For the second time, Beethoven’s ‘Fidelio’ will be presented. The entrance price is 50 cents for any seat in the house; no seats will be reserved.”

9)
Review: New York Herald, 14 December 1863, 1.
Brief review.  “Owing to the detestable weather, the audience was small.  The opera was well sung, the choruses and orchestra being especially efficient.”

10)
Review: New-York Times, 14 December 1863, 4.
“Mr. Anschutz’s performances, during the past week, were singularly successful in point of artistic effort, but the houses were seldom good. . . . [Fidelio] was very powerfully interpreted, but what could be expected of the public on such a day?”

11)
Review: Musical Review and World, 19 December 1863, 302.

“Beethoven’s ‘Fidelio’ was performed twice before very poor audiences, who, however, seemed to appreciate the praiseworthy efforts of the artists.”

12)
Review: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 17 January 1864, 4.

"Fidelio, which was first performed in front of an almost empty house, drew more and more people for the following performances."