Maretzek Italian Opera: Faust: Bellini Benefit

Event Information

Venue(s):
Academy of Music

Manager / Director:
Max Maretzek

Conductor(s):
Jaime Nuno

Event Type:
Opera

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
29 August 2018

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

20 Apr 1864, Evening

Program Details

Benefit of Fernando Bellini.

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
Faust
Composer(s): Gounod
Text Author: Barbier, Carré
Participants:  Maretzek Italian Opera Company;  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: Mephistopheles);  Wilhelm [baritone] Müller (role: Wagner)

Citations

1)
Announcement: New York Post, 18 April 1864.

2)
Announcement: New York Post, 19 April 1864, 2.

3)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 19 April 1864, 7.

4)
Advertisement: Courrier des États-Unis, 19 April 1864.

5)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 20 April 1864.
32nd performance of Faust.
6)
Announcement: New-York Times, 20 April 1864, 4.

7)
Announcement: Courrier des États-Unis, 20 April 1864.

8)
Advertisement: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 20 April 1864.

9)
Review: Dwight's Journal of Music, 30 April 1864, 232.
“The season of Italian opera at the Academy of Music closed last week with three more performances of ‘Faust.’”