Mesalliance

Event Information

Venue(s):
Niblo's Garden

Proprietor / Lessee:
William Wheatley

Manager / Director:
William Wheatley

Conductor(s):
Harvey Bradley Dodworth

Event Type:
Play With Music

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
12 October 2011

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

06 Feb 1865, 7:45 PM
07 Feb 1865, 7:45 PM
08 Feb 1865, 7:45 PM
09 Feb 1865, 7:45 PM
10 Feb 1865, 7:45 PM
11 Feb 1865, 7:45 PM

Program Details



Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
Mesalliance; or, Faith and falsehood
Participants:  Mrs. Frederick William Lander (role: Leonie Arnauld);  Charles Roehr [actor] Pope (role: Ferdinand Viscount D’Orby)

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 06 February 1865.
Cast.
2)
Review: New York Post, 07 February 1865.
“Before her marriage with General Lander, Miss Davenport was a popular artist, and her power over an audience does not appear to have suffered decay during the four or five years of her retirement.”
3)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 07 February 1865.

4)
Review: New-York Daily Tribune, 07 February 1865.
A long, very negative review, no mention of music.
5)
Advertisement: New York Clipper, 11 February 1865, 351.

6)
Announcement: New York Clipper, 18 February 1865.
Long review, no mention of music.
7)
Review: New York Clipper, 18 February 1865, 358.
About F.W. Lander’s return from four year retirement.  “It was an audience composed of the better classes of society, including editors, lawyers, merchants, &c., with their wives and daughters.”