Maretzek Italian Opera: Norma

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 April 2012

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

14 Nov 1865, 8:00 PM

Program Details

Ninth subscription night.

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
Norma
Composer(s): Bellini
Text Author: Romani
Participants:  Maretzek Italian Opera Company;  Carlotta Carozzi-Zucchi (role: Norma);  Bernardo Massimiliani;  Enrichetta [soprano] Bosisio;  Giuseppe B. [basso] Antonucci

Citations

1)
Announcement: New-York Daily Tribune, 14 November 1865, 5.

“Norma is one of Zucchi’s finest characters.  In it she is grandly impassioned, and one of the few marked representatives of the character.”

2)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 14 November 1865, 7.

3)
Announcement: New-York Times, 14 November 1865, 4.

A “powerful cast.”

4)
Review: New-York Daily Tribune, 15 November 1865, 1.

“[A] large audience. . . . [T]he opera was performed well in every respect, Zucchi full of passion and emphasis, and meeting with able sustainment from the other artists.”