Maretzek Italian Opera: Lucrezia Borgia
Event Information
Venue(s):
Academy of Music
Manager / Director:
Max Maretzek
Conductor(s):
Auguste Predigam
Price: 7/21
Event Type:
Opera
Record Information
Status:
Published
Last Updated:
29 August 2018
Performance Date(s) and Time(s)
14 Oct 1864, 8:00 PMProgram Details
Seventh subscription night.
Performers and/or Works Performed
1)
aka Lucretia Borgia
Composer(s): Donizetti
Participants: Maretzek Italian Opera Company; Guglielmo Lotti; Augustino Susini (role: the Duke); Catarina Morensi (role: Maffio Orsini); Fernando [bass-baritone] Bellini; Carlotta Carozzi-Zucchi (role: Lucrezia)
Citations
9)
“Amusements. Academy of Music.—The repetition of ‘Lucrezia Borgia’ last evening attracted another good house, and the performance was generally and specifically good. Signora ZUCCHI was in excellent voice, and acted finely. Mlle. Morensi as Massio Orsini looked the part charmingly, and sang with much spirit. We were much satisfied with Signor LOTTI, and Signor SUSINI, too, was in steady and tremendous voice. The orchestra and chorus, under the able direction of Mr. PREDIGAM, were both capital.”
10)
The trio of Act II was encored. Ensembles should not be encored, because they demand a great expense of force and energy. Repeating a couplet de romance or even a chorus is not a regrettable practice.
11)
“The performance of ‘Lucrezia Borgia’ on Friday night was in all respects excellent. There was not a drawback to the general spirit and frequent delicacy of the rendering—except in the last act, where, in the skuffle which precedes the Brindizi [sic], both Maffio, Orsini, and Genarro forgot that they were before the audience, and enjoyed a very agreeable romp at precisely the moment where it was most ill-timed and inconvenient. When a hot-headed youth seizes a knife for the purpose of emboweling it in an adversary, it is hardly seasonable to make merry.”