Maretzek Italian Opera: L’Africaine

Event Information

Venue(s):
Academy of Music

Manager / Director:
Max Maretzek

Price: $1.00; 1.50 reserved

Event Type:
Opera

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
8 August 2012

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

31 Mar 1866, Evening

Program Details

“Cheap opera night,” per ad in Tribune.

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
Africaine, L'
aka Afrikanerin
Composer(s): Meyerbeer
Text Author: Scribe
Participants:  Francesco Mazzoleni;  Carlotta Carozzi-Zucchi;  Giuseppe B. [basso] Antonucci;  Antonietta Brignoli-Ortolani;  Fernando [bass-baritone] Bellini

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 27 March 1866.
2)
Advertisement: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 28 March 1866.
3)
Announcement: New-York Daily Tribune, 29 March 1866, 8.
4)
Announcement: New-York Times, 31 March 1866, 4.
5)
Announcement: New-York Daily Tribune, 31 March 1866, 7.
6)
Review: New-York Times, 02 April 1866, 5.

“On Saturday evening there was a cheap representation of ‘L’Africaine,’ which was also well-attended. The ‘running tackle’ of the stage seemed to be greatly out of order, for there was a long and tedious delay in the last act.”