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 PM07 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)
Participants: Mrs. Frederick William Lander (role: Leonie Arnauld); Charles Roehr [actor] Pope (role: Ferdinand Viscount D’Orby)
Citations
2)
A long, very negative review, no mention of music.
4)
“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.”
6)
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.”