Grover German Opera: Guillaume Tell

Event Information

Venue(s):
Academy of Music

Manager / Director:
Leonard Grover

Price: $1 parquet, dress circle; $.50 family circle; $.25 amphitheater; $.50 extra for reserved seat

Event Type:
Opera

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
20 June 2016

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

20 Apr 1866, Evening

Program Details

Wood and Kruger performed a “grand ballet.” Members of the Helvetia, Wolfsschlucht, and Frohsinn Gesangvereins augmented the chorus.

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
Guillaume Tell
Composer(s): Rossini
Text Author: Jouy
Participants:  Frohsinn Gesangverein;  Grover German Opera Company;  Helvetia Männerchor;  Wolfsschlucht Gesangverein;  Mlle. [dancer] Kruger;  Edouard [bass-baritone] Haimer (role: Rudolph);  Joseph Weinlich (role: Walther Furst and Gessler);  Mme. [vocalist] Pickaneser (role: Hedwig);  Johanna Rotter (role: Mathilde);  Theodore Habelmann (role: Jacques);  Wilhelm Formes (role: William Tell);  Otto Lehman [bass] (role: Leuthold);  Alphonse Urchs [Grover German Opera] (role: Melchthal);  Theresa Wood [dancer-voc];  Franz Himmer (role: Arnold Melchthal);  Sophie Dziuba (role: Jenny)

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 20 April 1866, 7.

     “In the grand ruetli scene the singing societies helvetia, wolfsschlucht, and frohsinn have kindly volunteered, augmenting the chorus to 150 voices, the largest choral force that has appeared in any opera in this country.”

2)
Advertisement: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 20 April 1866, 6.