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Fidelio
Metropolitan Opera House, Fri, January 14, 1887
Fidelio (11)
Ludwig van Beethoven | Joseph Sonnleithner
- Leonore
- Marianne Brandt
- Florestan
- Albert Niemann
- Don Pizarro
- Adolf Robinson
- Rocco
- Emil Fischer
- Marzelline
- Auguste Seidl-Kraus
- Jaquino
- Otto Kemlitz
- Don Fernando
- Rudolph Von Milde
- First Prisoner
- Julius Meyer
- Second Prisoner
- Emil S?nger
- Conductor
- Anton Seidl
- Director
- Mr. Van Hell
- Set Designer
- Charles Fox, Jr.
- Set Designer
- William Schaeffer
Fidelio received three performances this season.
Review 1:
Review of Henry Krehbiel in the New York Tribune:
Only one contretemps marred the enjoyment of the evening. The climactic scene in the opera is that of the attempted murder in the second act. It was given with wonderful pathos and power last night, but at its height, just as Fr?ulein Brandt and Herr Niemann were about to break out into the jubilant duet, "O, Namenlose Freude," a woman's loud laugh from one of the boxes broke the hush that had come over the audience. The heartless discord so disconcerted Fr?ulein Brandt that she missed her cue and after struggling through a dozen bars of the duet, with singers and musicians at sixes and sevens, Herr Seidl stopped the orchestra and started the number over again. There was a great deal of feeling over the incident manifested in the audience. After the curtain fell, the singers were called to the footlights seven or eight times, the applause growing in intensity with each recall. During the short pauses between the recalls hisses were directed toward the box
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Met careers
- Anton Seidl [Conductor]
- Marianne Brandt [Leonore]
- Albert Niemann [Florestan]
- Adolf Robinson [Don Pizarro]
- Emil Fischer [Rocco]
- Auguste Seidl-Kraus [Marzelline]
- Otto Kemlitz [Jaquino]
- Rudolph Von Milde [Don Fernando]
- Julius Meyer [First Prisoner]
- Emil S?nger [Second Prisoner]
- Mr. Van Hell [Director]
- Charles Fox, Jr. [Set Designer]
- William Schaeffer [Set Designer]