Maretzek Italian Opera: Faust

Event Information

Venue(s):
Academy of Music

Manager / Director:
Max Maretzek

Conductor(s):
Max Maretzek

Event Type:
Opera

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
29 August 2018

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

08 Apr 1864, 8:00 PM

Program Details

Twenty-eighth night of Faust.

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
Faust
Composer(s): Gounod
Text Author: Barbier, Carré
Participants:  Military band, unidentified;  Maretzek Italian Opera Company;  Wilhelm [baritone] Müller (role: Wagner);  Fanny Stockton (role: Martha);  Clara Louise Kellogg (role: Margherita);  Fernando [bass-baritone] Bellini (role: Valentin);  Henrietta Sulzer (role: Seibel);  Francesco Mazzoleni (role: Faust);  Joseph Hermanns (role: Mephistopholes)

Citations

1)
Announcement: New York Herald, 07 April 1864.

2)
Announcement: New-York Times, 07 April 1864.

3)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 08 April 1864.
Twenty-eighth night of Faust.
4)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 08 April 1864, 7.

5)
Announcement: Courrier des États-Unis, 08 April 1864.
The current success of Faust helps Maretzek fight with an advantage the Metropolitan Fair; Gounod’s opera will sell out tickets tonight, too.
6)
Advertisement: Courrier des États-Unis, 08 April 1864.

7)
Advertisement: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 08 April 1864.

8)
Review: New York Clipper, 16 April 1864, 4.
“The opera dropped off somewhat after the Fair got fairly under way, but ‘Faust’ drew a good house on the 8th.  This opera fetches ‘em when everything else fails.  One of the secrets of its success is, that it is ‘the thing’ to be at the opera on ‘Faust’ nights, and splurge in the best the dry goods market affords.”