Draper Italian and American Opera: Martha

Event Information

Venue(s):
French Theatre

Manager / Director:
Henry Draper

Conductor(s):
Francisco Rosa

Price: $1.50 balcony box; $1 parquet; $.75 dress circle; $.30 gallery; $6, $10 proscenium boxes

Event Type:
Opera

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
28 July 2016

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

03 Sep 1866, Evening

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
Martha
aka Martha, oder Der Markt zu Richmond; Martha, or The Market at Richmond
Composer(s): Flotow
Text Author: Friedrich
Participants:  Draper Italian and American Opera;  Karl Johann Formes (role: Plunkett);  Giuseppe Tamaro (role: Lionello);  Frida de Gebele (role: Nancy);  Leonilda Boschetti (role: Martha)

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 01 September 1866, 7.

Lists Orlandini as Plunkett.

2)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 01 September 1866, 7.

Lists Orlandini as Plunkett.

3)
Advertisement: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 01 September 1866.
4)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 02 September 1866, 7.

Lists Formes as Plunkett.

5)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 02 September 1866, 7.

Lists Formes as Plunkett.

6)
Announcement: New York Herald, 03 September 1866, 5.

“The chorus and orchestra we understand have been much improved.”

7)
Announcement: New York Post, 03 September 1866.
8)
Announcement: New-York Times, 03 September 1866.
9)
Advertisement: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 03 September 1866.
10)
Review: New York Herald, 04 September 1866, 3.

“There was a pretty large and a decidedly fashionable audience at this handsome little opera house last night. Flotow’s Martha was presented with the following cast:– [lists cast].  We reserve remarks on the style in which this beautiful work was rendered last night until its second representation this evening.  We would, however, advise the management to add a few more first violinists to this orchestra and moderate the buzzing of the contrabassi, which resemble a hive of bees.  With this exception, the orchestra was much better than during the nights of Il Barbiere.  A half dozen or more voices in the chorus would also be necessary to do justice to the many beautiful choruses.”