Maretzek Italian Opera: Faust: Sulzer 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)

22 Apr 1864, 8:00 PM

Program Details

Closing Night. Benefit of Henrietta Sulzer.

Performers and/or Works Performed

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

Citations

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

2)
Announcement: Courrier des États-Unis, 20 April 1864.
33rd performance of Faust.
3)
Announcement: New York Herald, 22 April 1864.
“Mrs. General Grant, who arrived here last night, has accepted an invitation to be present.”
4)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 22 April 1864.

5)
Announcement: New York Post, 22 April 1864.

6)
Announcement: New-York Times, 22 April 1864, 4.

7)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 22 April 1864, 7.

8)
Announcement: Courrier des États-Unis, 22 April 1864.

9)
Advertisement: Courrier des États-Unis, 22 April 1864.

10)
Advertisement: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 22 April 1864.

11)
Review: New York Herald, 23 April 1864, 4.
Very brief review.  “Faust drew an excellent house at the Academy last night, the closing one of the present season.”
12)
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.’”