Maretzek Italian Opera: Fra Diavolo

Event Information

Venue(s):
Winter Garden

Proprietor / Lessee:
William [manager] Stuart

Manager / Director:
Max Maretzek

Conductor(s):
Carl Bergmann

Price: $1

Event Type:
Opera

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
24 November 2015

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

15 Dec 1866, 1:00 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Maretzek Italian Opera Company;  Giorgio Ronconi;  Fanny Natali-Testa [contralto];  Amati Dubreuil;  Clara Louise Kellogg (role: Zerlina);  Fernando [bass-baritone] Bellini;  Francesco Mazzoleni;  G. [basso] Fossati;  Oswald Bernardi
2)
Fra Diavolo
aka Fra Diavolo, ou L’hôtellerie de Terracine Fra Diavolo, or The Inn of Terracina
Composer(s): Auber
Text Author: Scribe

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 13 December 1866, 7.
2)
Announcement: New-York Times, 14 December 1866, 4.
3)
Announcement: New-York Times, 15 December 1866, 4.
4)
Advertisement: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 15 December 1866.
5)
Announcement: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 15 December 1866, 8.
6)
Review: New-York Times, 17 December 1866, 4.

“There was a fair attendance at Saturday’s matinée at the Winter Garden, when ‘Fra Diavolo’ was given under the direction of Mr. Carl Bergmann. The performance was unusually spirited and passed off to the entire satisfaction of those present. Signor Ronconi’s Englishman is a study, tempered by good-will, and colored by an irresistible feeling for caricature. It keeps the house in a roar.”

7)
Review: Courrier des États-Unis, 17 December 1866.

“Saturday, at the matinee, we found Mme Natali Testa again, always charming, in a role quite different from the one she had played the previous evening. Mlle Kellogg, as Zerlina in Fra Diavolo, displays the exact qualities for which we know her.”