Hamlet

Event Information

Venue(s):
Winter Garden

Proprietor / Lessee:
William [critic, manager] Stuart

Conductor(s):
Robert August Stoepel

Event Type:
Play With Music

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
11 October 2012

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

03 Jan 1866, 7:30 PM
04 Jan 1866, 7:30 PM
05 Jan 1866, 7:30 PM
06 Jan 1866, 7:30 PM

Program Details

Overture at 7:20 pm.

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
Hamlet, [play]
Text Author: Shakespeare
Participants:  Edwin Thomas Booth
2)
Hamlet, [incidental music]
Composer(s): Stoepel

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 01 January 1866, 7.

     “MR. EDWIN BOOTH will make his first professional appearance in nine months.”

2)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 03 January 1866, 7.

     Cast.  “The original music expressly composed for Mr. Booth’s Hamlet, by MR. ROBERT STOEPEL.”

3)
Review: New-York Times, 08 January 1866, 5.

     “Mr. Booth’s engagement at the Winter Garden has opened most auspiciously.  The best ‘houses’ in the city are attracted thither by the gentleman’s fine rendering of Hamlet.”