Maretzek Italian Opera: La favorite

Event Information

Venue(s):
Academy of Music

Manager / Director:
Max Maretzek

Conductor(s):
Angelo Torriani

Event Type:
Opera

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
4 June 2013

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

11 Apr 1866, 8:00 PM

Program Details

Kruger and Vidal performed an incidental ballet. Norma was originally scheduled but owing to Carozzi-Zucchi’s sore throat, La Favorita was performed instead.

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
Favorite, La
aka La favorita; The Favoured One
Composer(s): Donizetti
Text Author: Royer, Vaëz
Participants:  Maretzek Italian Opera Company;  Fernando [bass-baritone] Bellini;  Johanna Ficher;  Mlle. [dancer] Kruger;  Ettore Irfre;  Giuseppe B. [basso] Antonucci;  Carmelina Poch [mezzo] (role: Leonora)

Citations

1)
Announcement: New York Post, 09 April 1866.

Announces that Carozzi-Zucchi and Stella Bonheur will sing Norma.

 

2)
Advertisement: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 11 April 1866.
3)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 11 April 1866, 7.

     “The public is respectfully informed that Mme. carozzi-zucchi, who is suffering from a painful sore throat, will be unable to appear this evening in the previously-announced opera, in consequence of which, la favorita will be produced.” Gives cast.

4)
Announcement: New York Post, 11 April 1866.

     Part of review for the 04/10/66 performance of Martha. “To-night we shall have ‘La Favorita,’ with Senorita Poch in her great rôle of Leonora. The sickness of Madame Zucchi occasioned this change in the programme.”