Maretzek Italian Opera: L’Africaine

Event Information

Venue(s):
Academy of Music

Manager / Director:
Max Maretzek

Conductor(s):
Carl Bergmann

Event Type:
Opera

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
29 August 2018

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

19 Feb 1866, Evening

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
Africaine, L'
aka Afrikanerin
Composer(s): Meyerbeer
Text Author: Scribe
Participants:  Maretzek Italian Opera Company;  Antonietta Brignoli-Ortolani;  Fernando [bass-baritone] Bellini;  Francesco Mazzoleni;  Carlotta Carozzi-Zucchi

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 15 February 1866.
2)
Advertisement: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 19 February 1866.
3)
Review: New-York Times, 20 February 1866, 4.

     “The ‘African’ was given last night to a brilliant audience.”

4)
Review: New-York Daily Tribune, 20 February 1866, 4.

     “The wretched weather possibly prevented that overflow which usually attends the representations of that popular opera.  Of the performance, there is nothing new to say.  Zucchi, Ortolani, Mazzoleni, Bellini, and the other artists, exerted themselves as successfully as heretofore, and received warm and deserved applause.  The chorus was good, and the orchestra under Carl Bergman [sic] was irreproachable.”