Maretzek Italian Opera: Faust

Event Information

Venue(s):
Academy of Music

Manager / Director:
Max Maretzek

Conductor(s):
Max Maretzek

Price: $1

Event Type:
Opera

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
29 August 2018

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

02 Apr 1864, Matinee

Performers and/or Works Performed

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

Citations

1)
Advertisement: Courrier des États-Unis, 29 March 1864.

 

2)
Announcement: New York Herald, 01 April 1864.

3)
Announcement: New-York Times, 01 April 1864, 5.

The only time this season Faust is given as a matinee.

4)
Announcement: New-York Daily Tribune, 01 April 1864.

 

5)
Announcement: New York Herald, 02 April 1864.

 

6)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 02 April 1864.

 

7)
Announcement: New-York Times, 02 April 1864.

Cast is “the same as at the regular performance.”

8)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 02 April 1864, 9.

 

9)
Announcement: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 02 April 1864.

Includes a long discussion of the upcoming operas in the season.

10)
Announcement: New York Clipper, 09 April 1864, 411.