Maretzek Italian Opera: Crispino e la comare

Event Information

Venue(s):
Academy of Music

Manager / Director:
Max Maretzek

Event Type:
Opera

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
22 April 2012

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

13 Nov 1865, Evening

Program Details



Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
Crispino e la comare
aka Schuhflicker
Composer(s): Ricci, Ricci
Text Author: Piave
Participants:  Agostino Rovere;  Ettore Irfre;  Clara Louise Kellogg;  Fernando [bass-baritone] Bellini

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 11 November 1865, 7.

2)
Announcement: New-York Daily Tribune, 13 November 1865.

“The demand for its repetition is so imperative that the management is compelled to repeat it.  The attendance grows larger at each representation, and it must be considered as the great success of the season.”

3)
Advertisement: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 13 November 1865.

4)
Review: New-York Times, 14 November 1865, 5.

Crispino given “to a very good audience last night in the same faultless manner as before. . . . The trio of the doctors was duly encored, and the finale of the second act was enthusiastically received.”

5)
Review: New-York Daily Tribune, 14 November 1865, 5.

“[A] full and most fashionable audience. . . . We thought the performance of the same opera at the Matinee on Saturday was the most spirited we had yet seen; but last night the performers seemed to throw a perfect abandon into their characters, imparting to each a reality which gave it a positive vitality.  They all did so admirably that to individualize one for praise would be to wrong the others, who are equally deserving of admiration.  It was really a charming and brilliant performance, and as such would bear repetition many and many a time.”