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 July 2012

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

07 Mar 1865, 8:00 PM

Program Details



Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
Faust
Composer(s): Gounod
Text Author: Barbier, Carré
Participants:  Guglielmo Lotti;  Joseph Weinlich;  Domenico Lorini;  Catarina Morensi;  Clara Louise Kellogg;  Mlle. Ernestine;  Mlle. [dancer] Auriol

Citations

1)
Announcement: New York Post, 06 March 1865.

2)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 07 March 1865.

3)
Announcement: New York Post, 07 March 1865.

4)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 07 March 1865.

5)
Review: New-York Times, 08 March 1865.

     “The ‘Faust’ performance last evening attracted a very brilliant audience sufficient to demonstrate that Gounod's great Opera has not yet lost its hold on the public, for it is one of the few works that have brought the ‘many-headed multitude’ to a consideration of something large, and out of the usual way. The performance last evening was excellent in all respects, and gave abundant satisfaction to the admirers of this standard work.”

6)
Review: New York Post, 08 March 1865.

     “. . . and though the cast was not as thoroughly good as in the earlier parts of the season, the performance gave hearty satisfaction, Miss Kellogg and Lotti both singing unusually well.

7)
Review: New York Herald, 08 March 1865, 4.

     Briefly mentions that Faust was performed before “a pretty good, but not crowded, house.”