Maretzek Italian Opera: Faust

“Persons holding tickets from Tuesday last are requested to exchange them for this evening’s performance of Faust, or of any night of this week.”

Brief. “‘Faust’ was repeated last night at the Opera House to another very brilliant audience, which crowded the house in every part. Miss Kellogg, recovered from her illness, sang with her usual success, again proving herself so admirable a Marguerite that we can wish for no better. Bellini, Mazzoleni and Biachi were all in good voice.”

“Academy of Music.—The unmistakable success of ‘Faust’ leaves the journalist nothing to do but to record its repetition, and to state the significant fact that the house was filled to its greatest capacity. No opera of the modern repertoire has seized the public with so firm a grasp. The annals of music, in truth, hardly hint at its parallel. Some of the best accepted works of the present day were failures on their production, but ‘Faust’ has won instantly the sympathies of every audience, and from the start has been a favorite. The distribution last night restored Miss Kellogg to her right place as the heroine. No one can fill it so gracefully, modestly and dramatically. Her reception was, of course, genial and kindly; how could it be otherwise in view of her great appreciation of the rôle and her talent in interpreting it? The cast in other respects was the same as heretofore, and gave abundant satisfaction to an audience, literally, overflowing in every part of the house.”