Grover German Opera: La Juive

Event Information

Venue(s):
Academy of Music

Conductor(s):
Carl Anschütz

Event Type:
Opera

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
22 July 2011

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

26 Sep 1864, Evening

Program Details



Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
aka Jewess; Juedin; Jüdin; Judin
Composer(s): Halévy
Text Author: Scribe
Participants:  Grover German Opera Company;  Johanna Rotter (role: Princess Eudoxie);  Bertha Johannsen (role: Rachel);  Anton Graf (role: Ruggiero);  Theodore Habelmann (role: Prince Leopold);  Franz Himmer (role: Eleazar);  Joseph Hermanns (role: Cardinal Brogni);  Edouard [bass-baritone] Haimer (role: the officer);  Joseph Urchs (role: the Herald)

Citations

1)
Announcement: New York Herald, 25 September 1864.

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Announcement: New York Herald, 26 September 1864.

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Advertisement: New York Herald, 26 September 1864.
Full cast.
4)
Announcement: New-York Times, 26 September 1864, 4.
“Mr. Grover announces that [La Juive] has had the benefit of additional rehearsals, and that the costumes will be new–being part of those recently imported for the company.”
5)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 26 September 1864.

6)
Announcement: New-York Daily Tribune, 26 September 1864.

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Review: New York Herald, 27 September 1864.
“The Jewess was finely sung last evening by the German artists, owing to the fact that more rehearsals had been gone through, and that a day, or rather night of rest had recruited the severely taxed singers, last evening’s performance was a great improvement upon the first of the Jewess.  The leading artists were all in fine voice, the choruses were admirably sung, the orchestra, as usual, was remarkable in its ensemble, and the whole entertainment a decided success.”