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Les Huguenots
Metropolitan Opera House, Sat, January 10, 1885 Matinee
In German
Les Huguenots (7)
Giacomo Meyerbeer | Eug?ne Scribe/?mile Deschamps
- Marguerite de Valois
- Marie Schr?der-Hanfst?ngl
- Raoul de Nangis
- Anton Schott
- Valentine
- Amalie Materna
- Count de Nevers
- Alkuir Blum
- Urbain
- Anna Slach
- Count de Saint Bris
- Josef Staudigl
- Marcel
- Joseph K?gel
- Tavannes
- Otto Kemlitz
- Coss?
- Martin Pach?
- Thor?
- Carl Baumann
- Retz
- Emil Totzech
- M?ru
- Hermann Weber
- Lady of Honor
- Carrie Morse
- Bois-Ros?
- Emil Tiferro [Last performance]
- Maurevert
- Joseph Miller
- Dance
- Lucia Cormani
- Dance
- Isolina Torri
- Dance
- Ad?le Zollia
- Conductor
- Leopold Damrosch
The striking male chorus was replaced with new singers for this performance, thus ending the strike.
Review 1:
Review of Henry Krehbiel, New York Tribune
Materna sang the music of Valentina's part with a sympathetic understanding of the dramatic life, as well as the melodic beauty of the role, and her action was appropriately impassioned, while it exhibited a greater command of resources than is usually seen on the operatic stage. In every number there were opportunities to admire her declamation, which differs in a marked degree from the best efforts of her companions (none of whom except Herr Koegel, are indifferent to this characteristically German trait) in that it contains no signs of effort or special stress of purpose. It does not, as is frequently the case with these serious-minded artists, kill the lyric element in her music, but raised the sustained and smoothly flowing melodies to a new dignity. Yet not a syllable of the text is lost.
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- Marie Schr?der-Hanfst?ngl [Marguerite de Valois]
- Anton Schott [Raoul de Nangis]
- Amalie Materna [Valentine]
- Alkuir Blum [Count de Nevers]
- Anna Slach [Urbain]
- Josef Staudigl [Count de Saint Bris]
- Joseph K?gel [Marcel]
- Otto Kemlitz [Tavannes]
- Martin Pach? [Coss?]
- Carl Baumann [Thor?]
- Emil Totzech [Retz]
- Hermann Weber [M?ru]
- Carrie Morse [Lady of Honor]
- Emil Tiferro [Bois-Ros?]
- Joseph Miller [Maurevert]
- Lucia Cormani [Dance]
- Isolina Torri [Dance]
- Ad?le Zollia [Dance]
- Leopold Damrosch [Conductor]