Event Information
Venue(s):
Academy of Music
Price: $1 to all the lower parts of the house
Event Type:
Opera
Record Information
Status:
Published
Last Updated:
21 June 2016
Performance Date(s) and Time(s)
17 Sep 1864, 2:00 PM
Program Details
Performers and/or Works Performed
Citations
1)
Announcement: New York Herald, 15 September 1864.
2)
Announcement: New York Herald, 16 September 1864.
“On Saturday there will be a grand Faust matinee.”
3)
Announcement: New York Post, 16 September 1864.
4)
Advertisement: Courrier des États-Unis, 16 September 1864.
5)
Announcement: New York Herald, 17 September 1864.
6)
Announcement: New-York Times, 17 September 1864.
“We need say nothing in favor of the opera but for the sake of a possibly ‘unprotected female,’ we may add that seats can be secured.”
7)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 17 September 1864.
8)
Announcement: Courrier des États-Unis, 17 September 1864.
9)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 17 September 1864.
Lists Hermann and Johannsen in the cast.
10)
Review: New York Post, 19 September 1864.
One sentence only. “[E]xtremely well attended.”
11)
Review: New-York Times, 21 September 1864, 5.
“Mr. Grover has every reason to feel satisfied with the results . . . of the first week of German Opera under his management. . . . [H]e has succeeded in attracting overflowing crowds to no fewer than six performances. . . . [I]t is sometime necessary to relieve one set of singers by substituting another in their places. This was the case of the Matinée on Saturday, when the Mephistopheles and the Siebel were both different to (sic) what we had on Thursday–the former being played by Herr Weinlich and the latter by Fraulein Canissa. . . . The attendance on Saturday was extremely brilliant, all the pretty girls were there, and their bright toilettes made the parquet look like a bed of flowers.”
12)
Review: Courrier des États-Unis, 23 September 1864.
OPERA ALLEMAND.
"Wednesday, the performance of Faust went better than ever. The honors of the evening were again for Mme Frederici.”
13)
: Courrier des États-Unis, 03 October 1864.
" . . . . Mme Frederici is gifted with a voice of remarkable range: roles of contralto, mezzo, soprano, a director can rely on her for all. She doesn't sing badly, but she needs to work, which she doesn't do. She is a delightful Marguerite in Faust, thanks to her type, which is the German character in all its purity. She even has the traits of Marguerite dreamed of by Goethe, and that complexion, rich and chaste at the same time, that pleases lovers of blonde Germanic beauties so much. Mme Frederici only has to present herself, and you recognize Marguerite. . . ."
