Heller’s Salle Diabolique

Event Information

Venue(s):
Salle Diabolique

Event Type:
Chamber (includes Solo), Variety / Vaudeville

Performance Forces:
Instrumental

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
7 May 2012

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

05 Dec 1864, 8:00 PM
06 Dec 1864, 8:00 PM
07 Dec 1864, 8:00 PM
08 Dec 1864, 8:00 PM
09 Dec 1864, 8:00 PM
10 Dec 1864, 3:00 PM
10 Dec 1864, 8:00 PM

Program Details



Performers and/or Works Performed

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 05 December 1864, 7.

2)
Announcement: New-York Times, 05 December 1864, 4.

3)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 05 December 1864, 7.

4)
Announcement: New York Clipper, 10 December 1864, 278.

     “[L]et us conjure you, by all you hold dear, to repair with the fair to Heller’s beautiful temple of magic, and there see and hear one of the most famous magicians and musicians of the nineteenth century.”

5)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 10 December 1864, 7.

     Matinee.  The program will be changing in order to make way for the Christmas holidays.

6)
Review: New-York Times, 11 December 1864, 4.

     “Robert Heller, Professor of the Black Art, nightly performs his deviltries.  He, too, is to be found on Saturday afternoons, and it has seemed to us that his sternest critics are then present—the youngsters being much more difficult to satisfy than their seniors. . . . He plays also upon the pianoforte, and the English language—producing agreeable sensations from both. . . . [W]e may add that Mr. Heller’s establishment is neatly and brightly fitted up, and that it is patronized by the best people in the city.”