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:
22 July 2012

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

16 Dec 1864, 8:00 PM

Program Details

Last time this season of Faust. 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;  Guglielmo Lotti;  Augustino Susini;  Catarina Morensi;  Clara Louise Kellogg;  Fernando [bass-baritone] Bellini;  Mlle. Ernestine;  Mlle. [dancer] Auriol

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 13 December 1864, 7.

2)
Advertisement: Courrier des États-Unis, 15 December 1864.

3)
Announcement: New-York Times, 15 December 1864, 5.

4)
Announcement: New York Herald, 15 December 1864, 4.

5)
Announcement: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 16 December 1864.

6)
Announcement: Courrier des États-Unis, 16 December 1864.

7)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 16 December 1864, 7.

      “Increased chorus, orchestra and military band.”

8)
Announcement: New York Herald, 16 December 1864, 4.

9)
Review: New York Herald, 17 December 1864, 5.

      Very brief.  “The last performance of Faust for the present season was given last night, and was received with the same enthusiasm which the leading lyrical gems of the opera always call forth.”