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Metropolitan Opera Premiere, New Production
Fidelio
Metropolitan Opera House, Wed, November 19, 1884
Debut : Marianne Brandt, Josef Staudigl
Fidelio (1)
Ludwig van Beethoven | Joseph Sonnleithner
- Leonore
- Marianne Brandt [Debut]
- Florestan
- Anton Schott
- Don Pizarro
- Adolf Robinson
- Rocco
- Joseph Miller
- Marzelline
- Auguste Seidl-Kraus
- Jaquino
- Otto Kemlitz
- Don Fernando
- Josef Staudigl [Debut]
- First Prisoner
- Emil Tiferro
- Second Prisoner
- Ludwig Wolf
- Conductor
- Leopold Damrosch
- Director
- Wilhelm Hock
- Set Designer
- Charles Fox, Jr.
- Set Designer
- William Schaeffer
Fidelio received eight performances this season.
Review 1:
Review of W. J. Henderson in The New York Times
...Fr?ulein Amelia Brandt, a mezzo soprano and contralto, who has long been a favorite with audiences in Germany, effected her first appearance as Leonore, and wrought an immediate and decisive impression. Her voice is brilliant and powerful, her method eclectic, by which we would imply that she has the vigorous enunciation and accent of the German school of song, and no little of the fluency and taste of the Italian, and as an actress she is intelligent, impassioned, and forceful. Three recalls followed the rendering of "Abscheulicher."...Fr?ulein Kraus' Marzelline was an excellent performance, and particularly interesting as showing her versatility....Herr Schott as Florestan was in much better form than on the occasion of his debut. That he is an artist of experience, and the very reverse of a mere vocalist, was already perceptible on Monday, but overexertion told so severely on his voice that judgment upon his merits had to be suspended. Last night he was heard to much greater advantage, and he sang Florestan's music in the second act with infinite pathos and considerable charm....Herr Robinson...personated Pizarro, and did all that could be done with that thankless character, whose single air is so overwhelmed by the orchestral accompaniment that no singer in the memory of man has managed to make its measures audible. Herr Staudigl was seen as Don Fernando, but the role is so unimportant that another opportunity must be awaited before speaking of the newcomer's voice and talent. Herr Miller was an efficient Rocco, the chorus was numerically strong and reasonably well drilled and Dr. Damrosch's orchestra was perfect.
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Met careers
- Marianne Brandt [Leonore]
- Anton Schott [Florestan]
- Adolf Robinson [Don Pizarro]
- Joseph Miller [Rocco]
- Auguste Seidl-Kraus [Marzelline]
- Otto Kemlitz [Jaquino]
- Josef Staudigl [Don Fernando]
- Emil Tiferro [First Prisoner]
- Ludwig Wolf [Second Prisoner]
- Leopold Damrosch [Conductor]
- Wilhelm Hock [Director]
- Charles Fox, Jr. [Set Designer]
- William Schaeffer [Set Designer]