Grover German Opera: Faust

Event Information

Venue(s):
Academy of Music

Conductor(s):
Carl Anschütz

Event Type:
Choral, Opera, Orchestral

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
26 July 2011

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

21 Sep 1864, Evening

Program Details



Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
Faust
Composer(s): Gounod
Text Author: Barbier, Carré
Participants:  Teutonia Choral Society;  Military band, unidentified;  Grover German Opera Company;  Teutonia, orchestra;  Bertha Johannsen;  Giuseppe Tamaro;  Marie Frederici;  Joseph Hermanns (role: Mephistopheles)

Citations

1)
Announcement: New York Post, 19 September 1864.

2)
Announcement: New York Herald, 19 September 1864.

3)
Advertisement: Courrier des États-Unis, 20 September 1864.
The director has engaged local German choirs, a supplementary German orchestra, and a military band.
4)
Announcement: New York Herald, 20 September 1864.

5)
Advertisement: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 21 September 1864.
Mr. Hermann performed well as Mephistopheles.
6)
Announcement: Courrier des États-Unis, 21 September 1864.

7)
Advertisement: Courrier des États-Unis, 21 September 1864.
Lists several cast members and the chorus.
8)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 21 September 1864.

9)
Announcement: New York Post, 21 September 1864.

10)
Announcement: New York Herald, 21 September 1864.
“[T]heir last performance of Faust.”
11)
Review: New York Herald, 22 September 1864.
“It is really astonishing to see the immense crowds which fill the Academy of Music each night of Manager Grover’s season, which is one of great prosperity.  He has succeeded in bringing to German opera the elite of our society, and [herein?] achieves a victory such as should be recorded.  Last evening the Opera House was as brilliant as during the regular operatic season.  Faust was the attraction, and we will simply add that it was admirably sung.  The large audience displayed a more than usual enthusiasm.”

Keyword: German-American Crossover