Orphée aux Enfers

Event Information

Venue(s):
New-Yorker Stadt-Theater [37-39 Bowery - pre-Sept 1864]

Conductor(s):
Franz [vn, cond. and opera director] Herwig

Price: $1; $.50; $.25; $.15

Event Type:
Opera

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
12 August 2014

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

17 Dec 1863, 8:00 PM

Program Details



Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
aka Orpheus in the Underworld; Orpheus in der Unterwelt; Orphee aux enfers
Composer(s): Offenbach
Text Author: Halévy, Crémieux
Participants:  Auguste Steglich-Fuchs (role: Cupid);  Jean Klein [NY-Stadt tenor and actor] (role: Orpheus);  Herr Meyer [Stadttheater actor] (role: Mars);  Mrs. Hoym (role: Public Opinion);  Gustav Grieben (role: Plutus);  Carl [tenor] Fritze (role: Pluto);  Fraulein [Stadttheater] Becker (role: Hebe);  Herr Knorr (role: Jupiter);  Frau Gregorovius (role: Terpsichore);  C. Lewens (role: Mercury);  Fraulein Giro (role: Minerva);  Herr Heinicke (role: Neptune);  Herr Schmidt [Stadttheater vocalist] (role: [Illeg.]);  Otto Reiffarth (role: Styx);  Frau Becker-Grahn (role: Venus);  Fräulein [singer] Meyer (role: Diana);  Frau Hübner (role: Juno);  Minna von Hedermann (role: Eurydice)

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 17 December 1863.
Full cast list included.
2)
Review: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 18 December 1863, 8.

 “Despite last night’s bad weather, the Stadttheater was filled, and we hope that a considerable sum was raised for the Polish Revolution’s fund.  The performance of Offenbach’s operetta, ‘Orphée aux Enfers,’ left much to be desired: we have attended better performances of this operetta at the Stadttheater.”