Orphée aux enfers: Otto Reifforth Benefit
Event Information
Venue(s):
New-Yorker Stadt-Theater [45-47 Bowery- post-Sept 1864]
Price: $3; $2; $1; $.50; $.25
Event Type:
Opera
Record Information
Status:
Published
Last Updated:
15 October 2015
Performance Date(s) and Time(s)
14 Dec 1866, 8:00 PMProgram Details
Burlesque of Offenbach's opera.
Performers and/or Works Performed
1)
aka Orpheus in the Underworld;
Orpheus in der Unterwelt;
Orphee aux enfers
Composer(s): Offenbach
Participants: Jean Klein [NY-Stadt tenor and actor] (role: Orpheus); Otto Reiffarth (role: Charon)
Citations
4)
“A rather questionable arrangement and rendering of Offenbach’s charming opera, and would have been much improved, considering the caliber of the voices, if the music had been entirely left out. The benéficiare appeared to be a favorite with the audience, to judge from their applause. He certainly made Charon a very amusing character.”