[Met Performance] CID:7090



La Juive
Metropolitan Opera House, Fri, January 25, 1889


In German



La Juive (14)
J. F. F. Hal?vy | Eug?ne Scribe
Rachel
Lilli Lehmann

El?azar
Julius Perotti

Princess Eudoxie
Alma F?hstr?m

Prince L?opold
Max Alvary

Cardinal de Brogni
Emil Fischer

Ruggiero
Ludwig M?dlinger

Albert
Jean Dor?

Dance
Eti?nne Verg?


Conductor
Walter Damrosch







Review 1:

Review in The New York Times

METROPOLITAN OPERA HOUSE.

One of the largest audiences of the season gathered in the Metropolitan Opera House last evening at the second performance of Hal?vy's "Jewess." Those who are fond of exercising their ingenuity in ascribing causes to all things can have a great deal of pleasure with this occurrence. The good, old-fashioned anti-Wagnerite will say it was the absence of the genius of Bayreuth [sic] from the scene, but as "The Jewess" never drew such a house before even that popular and generally-useful argument must be set aside. One thing can safely be said and that is that the presence of Frau Lilli Lehmann certainly had a decided influence on the size of the audience.

The eminent soprano did herself full justice last evening. She sang with an abundance of power and with unfailing judgment. Herr Perotti sang Eleazer in his best style, and acted with more discretion than he usually displays. Herr Alvary and Fr?ulein F?hstr?m discharged their duties tolerably, and Herr Fischer sang the Cardinal's music well, as he always does.

The lights were not kept turned up in the auditorium during the night scene of the second act. This state of affairs caused some of the stockholders much discomfort of spirit, and a few of them organized a squadron cruise through the corridors under the command of a gallant ruler of the sea and distributed protests in various directions. It is to be hoped that this light question will soon be settled in the interests of musical, not of social, art.



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