Maretzek Italian Opera: Fra Diavolo

Event Information

Venue(s):
Academy of Music

Manager / Director:
Max Maretzek

Price: $1.00

Event Type:
Opera

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
29 April 2012

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

25 Nov 1865, 1:00 PM

Program Details



Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
Fra Diavolo
aka Fra Diavolo, ou L’hôtellerie de Terracine Fra Diavolo, or The Inn of Terracina
Composer(s): Auber
Text Author: Scribe
Participants:  Maretzek Italian Opera Company;  Fanny Stockton (role: Lady Pamela);  Clara Louise Kellogg (role: Zerlina);  Fernando [bass-baritone] Bellini (role: Lord Cockburn);  Francesco Mazzoleni (role: Fra Diavolo)

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 22 November 1865, 7.

2)
Announcement: New York Post, 24 November 1865.

3)
Advertisement: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 25 November 1865.

4)
Announcement: New-York Daily Tribune, 25 November 1865, 4.

“It will be the last performance of ‘Fra Diavolo’ this season, so a large audience may be expected.”

5)
Announcement: New-York Times, 25 November 1865, 4.

6)
Review: New-York Daily Tribune, 27 November 1865, 5.

“The matinee of Saturday was attended by a brilliant audience, which crowded the Academy from parquette to amphitheater.”

7)
Review: New-York Times, 27 November 1865, 4.

“Mr. Maretzek gave his patrons a matinee performance of ‘Fra Diavolo.’ It was witnessed by one of the largest audiences ever assembled in the Academy of Music, extending absolutely from the parquette to the amphitheatre. The sex was indeed irresistible, both in numbers and splendor.  Such few specimens of the male animal as dared brave the ordeal, ranged themselves timidly in the lobbies, and, like Tennyson’s hero, ‘perused the matting.’  It is not necessary to speak of the performance.”

8)
Review: New York Post, 27 November 1865.

“That of last Saturday was in every way a delightful entertainment, ‘Fra Diavolo’ finding a most felicitous interpretation.”