[Met Performance] CID:2270



Martha
Metropolitan Opera House, Sat, March 22, 1884 Matinee



In Italian



Martha (6)
Friedrich von Flotow | Friedrich Wilhelm Riese
Lady Harriet
Marcella Sembrich

Lionel
Italo Campanini

Nancy
Zelia Trebelli

Plunkett
Franco Novara

Sir Tristram
Baldassare Corsini

Sheriff
Ludovico Contini

Maid
Imogene Forti

Servant
Giuseppe Barberis

Innkeeper
Amadeo Grazzi


Conductor
Auguste Vianesi





At the end of the opera Sembrich interpolated Deh torna mio bene (Proch).

Review 1:

Review in The New York Times:

Flotow's "Martha" was sung and acted at the Metropolitan Opera House yesterday afternoon, in the presence of a large audience, the cast including Mmes. Sembrich and Trebelli, and Signori Campanini and Novara. Signor Campanini's Lionello is familiar to New York opera-goers as a performance of marked originality, and it is quite within bounds to say that it has never been rivaled in this country. The great tenor was at his best yesterday-superb both in voice and action, and his labors were rewarded by the most enthusiastic applause. "M'appari" had to be repeated. Mme. Sembrich at the close sang Proch's "Air and Variations" with brilliant effect. Signor Vianesi led the orchestra



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