James Lingard Benefit Concert and Play

Event Information

Venue(s):
New-Yorker Stadt-Theater [45-47 Bowery- post-Sept 1864]

Proprietor / Lessee:
Eduard Hamann [prop.-dir.]

Price: $3, $2, $1, $.50, $.25

Performance Forces:
Instrumental, Vocal

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
15 December 2015

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

05 Jan 1867, 8:00 PM

Program Details

Benefit for James Lingard, director of the New Bowery Theater. The New Bowery had recently been destroyed in a fire.

Still water runs deep performed in English.

Performers and/or Works Performed

2)
aka Introduction
Composer(s): Hérold
3)
Composer(s): Donizetti
4)
Composer(s): Boieldieu
Participants:  Johanna Rotter
6)
aka Vepres; Vespri siciliani; Sicilian vespers, The; Bolero; Siciliana; Sicilienne; Pity, beloved ladies; Merce dilette Amiche
Composer(s): Verdi
Participants:  Bertha Johannsen
7)
Composer(s): Graben-Hoffmann
8)
aka Still waters run deep
Text Author: Taylor [dramatist]

Citations

1)
Announcement: New-York Times, 03 January 1867, 4.

“…It would be superfluous to say to urge claims of Mr. Lingard on the amusement-loving public. It will suffice that he has been most unfortunate. His friends are rallying round him, and the public, we doubt not, will do the same.”

2)
Announcement: New York Sun, 05 January 1867.

"Several members of the old German Opera troupe will give a concert."

3)
Advertisement: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 05 January 1867.

Full cast list included for the play.

4)
Announcement: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 05 January 1867.