Maretzek Italian Opera: Faust

Event Information

Venue(s):
Academy of Music

Manager / Director:
Max Maretzek

Conductor(s):
Carl Bergmann

Event Type:
Opera

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
28 September 2011

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

30 Nov 1864, 8:00 PM

Program Details

With increased chorus, orchestra and military band.


Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
Faust
Composer(s): Gounod
Text Author: Barbier, Carré
Participants:  Maretzek Italian Opera Company;  Military band, unidentified;  Fernando [bass-baritone] Bellini;  Mlle. Ernestine;  Wilhelm [baritone] Müller;  Mlle. [dancer] Auriol;  Elena Zapucci;  Guglielmo Lotti;  Augustino Susini;  Catarina Morensi (role: Siebel);  Clara Louise Kellogg (role: Margherita)

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 27 November 1864.

2)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 28 November 1864.

3)
Advertisement: Courrier des États-Unis, 29 November 1864.

4)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 30 November 1864, 4.
“To-night Gounod’s popular opera of “Faust” will be given with the same distribution heretofore. This brief announcement is sure to satisfy a sufficient number of people to fill the Academy.”
5)
Announcement: New-York Times, 30 November 1864, 4.

6)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 30 November 1864, 7.
“Increased chorus, orchestra, and military band”.
7)
Review: New-York Times, 01 December 1864, 4.
Brief review.  “’Faust’ was given last evening with the usual success.  The attendance was unusually good, and the success of the performance—judged by the severest standard, the enjoyment of those present—was perfect.”