Anschütz German Opera: Die Entführung aus dem Serail

Event Information

Venue(s):
German Opera House

Manager / Director:
Carl Anschütz

Conductor(s):
Carl Anschütz

Price: $.25 parterre and second tier; .50 parquet and first tier; .75 orchestra and reserved; $5 to $6 boxes

Event Type:
Opera

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
2 November 2015

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

17 Oct 1862, 8:00 PM

Program Details



Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
Entführung aus dem Serail, Die
aka Belmonte e Constance
Composer(s): Mozart
Participants:  Anschütz German Opera Company;  Guglielmo Lotti (role: Belmonte);  Johanna Rotter;  Bertha Johannsen;  Ludwig Quint;  Anton Graf

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 16 October 1862, 7.
2)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 16 October 1862, 7.
4th performance.
3)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 17 October 1862, 7.
Cast, time, prices
4)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 17 October 1862, 7.
5)
Review: New York Herald, 20 October 1862, 8.
Only a brief comment about Mozart’s opera; doesn’t specify an exact performance. “[T]hough a curiosity in a musical sense, it justifies the composer’s opinion of his own work, that ‘it was good in a room, but insignificant for the theatre.’”