Anschütz German Opera: Faust

Event Information

Venue(s):
Academy of Music

Conductor(s):
Carl Bergmann

Price: $1; $1.50 box; $.50 family circle; $.25 amphitheatre

Event Type:
Opera

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
10 September 2014

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

13 Jan 1864, Evening

Program Details



Benefit for Mad. Frederici and Herr Himmer.

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
Composer(s): Gounod
Text Author: Barbier, Carré

Citations

1)
Announcement: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 07 January 1864, 8.

“Next week, when ‘Die weiße Dame’ and ‘Tannhäuser’ are performed, Mr. Herrmann, the newly hired bass who just recently came from Germany, will probably perform.”

2)
Announcement: New-York Times, 11 January 1864.
La Dame Blanche was originally announced for this day but was performed instead on 01/15/64.
3)
Announcement: New York Herald, 12 January 1864.
La Dame Blanche was originally announced.
4)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 12 January 1864, 7.

5)
Announcement: New-York Daily Tribune, 12 January 1864.

6)
Advertisement: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 12 January 1864.

7)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 13 January 1864.

8)
Announcement: New-York Times, 13 January 1864, 4.
“Mme. Frederici and Herr Himmer (the gentleman who disappointed the Brooklyn public) will take their benefit here to-night. . . . For the lady’s sake, we hope the house will be filled.”
9)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 13 January 1864, 7.

10)
Announcement: Courrier des États-Unis, 13 January 1864.

11)
Advertisement: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 13 January 1864.

12)
Announcement: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 13 January 1864, 8.

 

“Tonight’s presentation of ‘Faust,’ the last one this season, will not be part of the subscription series; it is a benefit for Mme. Friederici and Mr. Himmer, who will sing two important roles in the opera. May both be granted a proper full house.”
13)
Review: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 14 January 1864, 8.

“Yesterday’s performance of Gounod’s ‘Faust,’ a benefit for Mr. and Mrs. Himmer [sic - Mr. Himmer and Mrs. Friederici], played before an overfilled house. Mr. Graf was new as Mephistopheles, and, despite his second-act speech, ‘I will do my best to delight the gentlemen,’ was not especially enjoyable, yet the performance in its entirety was a good one.”

14)
Review: Musical Review and World, 13 February 1864, 55.
“That their season was not successful, was simply owing to bad management.  As everybody knows, the performance [sic] of ‘Faust,’ ‘Tannhaeuser,’ and ‘Merry Wives of Windsor’ were witnessed by very crowded audiences.”