[Met Performance] CID:1310



Don Giovanni
Metropolitan Opera House, Sat, December 8, 1883 Matinee





Don Giovanni (2)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Lorenzo Da Ponte
Don Giovanni
Giuseppe Kaschmann

Donna Anna
Emmy Fursch-Madi

Don Ottavio
Roberto Stagno

Donna Elvira
Christine Nilsson

Leporello
Giovanni Mirabella

Zerlina
Marcella Sembrich

Masetto
Baldassare Corsini

Commendatore
Achille Augier


Conductor
Auguste Vianesi







Review 1:

Review in The New York Times:

At the Metropolitan Opera House matin?e yesterday afternoon Mozart's noble work, "Don Giovanni," was given a second time. The production of this opera is highly creditable to the management as an evidence of a desire to offer to the public something unusual and worthy of their deepest respect and admiration. The performance of the opera at its first presentation was unsatisfactory, and obliterated any feelings of gratitude the public may have felt for the endeavor to let them bear this elevated creation. The performance yesterday afternoon, however, was very much better, and was received by the large audience with many signs of pleasure. Mme. Nilsson repeated her dignified and symmetrical performance of Donna Elvira. Her rendering of the music was thoroughly artistic from the beginning to the end of the opera, and she was repeatedly called to the foot-lights to acknowledge the plaudits that were showered upon her. Mme. Sembrich sang the music of Zerlina with great vivacity, and with all the purity of tone, ease. and certainty of execution which have been so frequently noted. All her arias were received with applause and she was especially effective in the duet, "La ci darem," with Signor Kaschmann. Mme. Fursch-Madi's fine dramatic impersonation of Donna Anna has been before noticed. Yesterday it showed the improvement which naturally came from repetition. Signor Kaschmann's Don Giovanni was better yesterday than at the previous performance, and Signor Mirabella was easier in his interpretation of Leporello. Signor Stagno was again the Don Ottavio. The most noticeable improvement was in the work of the chorus, orchestra, and brass band which were much more certain in their work than at the previous performance of this opera.



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