Maretzek Italian Opera: Fra Diavolo
Event Information
Venue(s):
Academy of Music
Manager / Director:
Max Maretzek
Conductor(s):
Carl Bergmann
Event Type:
Opera
Record Information
Status:
Published
Last Updated:
19 October 2011
Performance Date(s) and Time(s)
14 Feb 1865, 8:00 PMProgram Details
Performers and/or Works Performed
1)
aka Fra Diavolo, ou L’hôtellerie de Terracine Fra Diavolo, or The Inn of Terracina
Composer(s): Auber
Participants: Maretzek Italian Opera Company; Guglielmo Lotti (role: Fra Diavolo); Joseph Weinlich (role: Giacomo); Amati Dubreuil (role: Reppo); Domenico Lorini (role: Lorenzo); Catarina Morensi (role: Pamela); Clara Louise Kellogg (role: Zerlina); Fernando [bass-baritone] Bellini (role: Lord Rochbourg); Wilhelm [baritone] Müller (role: Matheo)
Citations
3)
“[T]he performance was satisfactory, and gave abundant please to the audience.”
4)
Fra Diavolo was given last evening better perhaps than on any previous occasion, and was very much appreciated by the audience. We would suggest to Mr. Maretzek that this opera would be most acceptable at a matinee, when he next decides upon giving one. It has never been sung at a matinee since its first introduction in its new and improved form, and would no doubt prove especially welcome to the ladies residing outside the city. We learn with pleasure that Mme. Zucchi is so far recovered from her indisposition that she will be enabled to appear in Norma at the Brooklyn Academy on Thursday evening, and will positively sing the part of Elvira in Ernani at our Academy on Friday.”