The run closed June 12, 1880
- Opened
- April 19, 1880
- Closed
- June 12, 1880
- Performances
- 44
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Standard Theatre
Of the 35 productions we hold that opened in the 1880s and record a performance count, this is the 20th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Other stagings of Boccaccio 3 more that season
| 1898 | American Theatre Revival · Edward P. Temple | 8 perf. |
| 1905 | Broadway Theatre Revival | |
| 1975 | Edison Theatre Revival · Warren Enters | 7 perf. |
Who was in it4 named
Jennie Winston
3 of these 4 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 1 are set from the identifier in the cast list, which is a slug of the name — so hyphens and full stops are lost and a few come out wrong. We hold nothing else about them. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.
Characters3 roles recorded
Rosa Streitmann Fiametta, Lambertuccio's foster-daughter
Franz Tewele Lotteringhi, the cooper
Carl Blasel Checco, a beggar
Only 512 of 13,459 productions carry role names, and these came out of a wiki table — the names arrived with the table's own cell markup on them and have been stripped back. They are not linked to person records because the identifiers in that table do not resolve to ours.
Creative team
- Director
- Max Freeman
A producer is one string on this record, however many people or companies it names. Directors and choreographers are held both as text and as identifiers; where an identifier exists the name links to a page.
Recordings 2 held for the work
None of these is attributed to this staging. They are filed against Boccaccio, and nothing in the record says which production any of them documents. Closing that join is the point of this catalogue and it is not closed yet.
Around this production
Boccaccio, oder Der Prinz von Palermo (Boccaccio, or the Prince of Palermo) is an operetta in three acts by Franz von Suppé to a German libretto by Camillo Walzel and Richard Genée, based on the play by Jean-François Bayard, Adolphe de Leuven, Léon Lévy Brunswick and Arthur de Beauplan, based in turn on The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio. Despite the opera's clear links to the Viennese opera tradition, Suppé's opera takes most of its style from Italian opera. The opera was begun somewhere around the fall of 1878 and first published in 1879 by the August Cranz company and performed at the Carltheater, Vienna, on 1 February 1879. An English translation and adaptation was completed in 1880 by…
- Fritzi Scheff who had played earlier in the year in “Boccaccio,” opened on Christmas night in “Mlle. Modiste,” which proved to be the greatest triumph of her theatrical career. A Pictorial History of the American Theatre 1860 1985 Blum, p. 90
- Boccaccio, with its merry story, comical situations, and sufficient but never overwhelming romantic moments, its finely written mixture of lively and lovely music, and its series of grateful rôles, was a major hit in Vienna, and it went out from Austria, in the footsteps of Fatinitza and Der Seekadett, to establish its… The Musical A Concise History Second Edition Ga Nzl Kurt Findlay Jamie 2 2022010, p. 86
Passages naming this production, found by keyword across 178 books. Where it turns up in the literature, not curated notes about it.
What this page does not know
- No photograph of this staging. 48 of 13,459 productions hold one.
- Which of the 2 recordings of Boccaccio document this run, if any.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.