Maretzek Italian Opera: Dom Sébastien, roi de Portugal

Event Information

Venue(s):
Academy of Music

Manager / Director:
Max Maretzek

Conductor(s):
Carl Bergmann

Event Type:
Opera

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
6 May 2012

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

02 Dec 1864, 7:30 PM

Program Details

Donizetti: Dom Sébastien includes an incidental ballet.


The NYT and NYSZ each have an announcement that calls this performance the fourth, this is incorrect. This performance was the third.

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
Dom Sébastien, roi de Portugal
aka Dom Sebastian, King of Portugal; Dom Sebastien; Don Sebastian
Composer(s): Donizetti
Text Author: Scribe
Participants:  Maretzek Italian Opera Company;  Bernardo Massimiliani (role: Sebastian);  Mlle. Ernestine;  Mlle. [dancer] Auriol;  Augustino Susini (role: Giovanni);  Domenico Lorini (role: Abadialos);  Fernando [bass-baritone] Bellini (role: Camoens);  Carlotta Carozzi-Zucchi (role: Zaida)
2)
Ballet divertissement, unidentified
aka Grand ballet divertissement, unidentified
Participants:  Mlle. Ernestine;  Mlle. [dancer] Auriol

Citations

1)
Announcement: New York Herald, 30 November 1864, 1.

2)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 01 December 1864, 7.

3)
Announcement: New-York Times, 01 December 1864.

     Fourth time.

4)
Announcement: New York Herald, 02 December 1864, 1.

5)
Announcement: New York Herald, 02 December 1864, 4.

6)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 02 December 1864, 7.

7)
Announcement: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 02 December 1864.

     “In all four performances of this opera, the house has only been half filled, yet each time the audience seems to like it better.”

8)
Review: New-York Times, 03 December 1864, 4.

     Short review.  “‘Don Sebastian’ improves rapidly in public estimation. The performance last evening was the warmest in point of applause we have yet attended, and it was decidedly the best in every artistic sense.  Signor Massimiliani was in excellent voice, and sang his romanza—which it must be remembered ranges up to C—with great great [sic] power and sweetness.  Signor Bellini, too, was in thorough trim.  Madame Zuechi [sic] sang—as she always does—like a true artist.  The entire opera went smoothly and well.”

9)
Review: Courrier des États-Unis, 12 December 1864.

     "... Mme Carozzi-Zucchi showed herself superior on Friday to what she had already been [in Don Sébastien]. She owes her success to the execution of the beautiful septet in the fourth act.”