Page "Martha (opera)" Paragraph 5

In the United States, it was produced in English at Niblo's Garden in New York on 1 November 1852 with Anna Bishop, and New Orleans on 27 January 1860, in French.

It had its first Australian performance in Melbourne on 24 June 1856.

It was first performed in France in Italian by the Théâtre-Italien at the Salle Ventadour in Paris on 11 February 1858 and in French at several provincial theatres beginning in December 1858 and at the Théâtre Lyrique in Paris on 18 December 1865.

According to T. J. Walsh numerous editions of Kobbé's Opera Book have incorrectly given the date of the first performance at the Théâtre Lyrique as 16 December 1865.

He also states that Kobbé's information that the aria " M ' appari " ( from Flotow's opera L ' âme en peine ) was first inserted at that theatre is also incorrect, that it was sung by Mario at the Théâtre-Italien in 1858 and is also found ( as " Ach!

so fromm ") in an early ( probably 1848 ) Vienna edition of the score in the British Library and was probably always a part of the opera.

The confusion may have arisen from further alterations made by the Théâtre Lyrique's director, Léon Carvalho, which included the insertion in Act 4 of Flotow's baritone aria " Depuis le jour j ' ai paré ma chaumière " ( also from L ' âme en peine ).