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Eighth Grand Sunday Night Concert
Metropolitan Opera House, Sun, February 10, 1901
Eighth Grand Sunday Night Concert
Metropolitan Opera House
February 10, 1901
EIGHTH GRAND SUNDAY NIGHT CONCERT
Henry Charles Litolff: Maximilian Robespierre Overture
Faust: Dio Possente
Antonio Scotti
Bruch: Odysseus: Ich wob dies Gewand
Ernestine Schumann-Heink
Thomas: Le Ca?d: Air du tambour major
Pol Plan?on
Tannh?user: Dich, teure halle
Johanna Gadski
Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody No. 1
Saint-Sa?ns: The Wheel of Omphale
Schumann: Les Deux Grenadiers
Pol Plan?on
Lucrezia Borgia: Brindisi
Ernestine Schumann-Heink
Alphons Czibulka: Fly Minuet
Moszkowski: Serenade
De Leva: Ho sognato
Tosti: Invanno
Antonio Scotti
Der Freisch?tz: Leise, leise
Johanna Gadski
Paul Lacombe: Tzigane
Conductor...............Walter Damrosch
Review 1:
Review in The New York Times
METROPOLITAN SUNDAY CONCERT
Soloists Were Schumann-Heink, Plan?on, Scotti, and Gadski.
A new rule for Sunday night went into effect at the Metropolitan yesterday. Mme. Schumann-Heink, after having been called to the front some six times, disclosed its substance with that archness peculiar to the favorite contralto. She stepped to the front of the stage, seeming about to grant the audience's demand for an encore, when, with a shrug of the shoulders, she made a comprehensive gesture toward the conductor, accompanied with a moue that said quite plainly to the front of the house,
"That wretch won't allow another song." The house, understanding it, gave Schumann-Heink applause that very nearly wrecked the next number. And that was the rule printed on the programme.
The soloists in addition to Schumann-Heink were Plan?on, Scotti, and Gadski. Mme. Schumann-Heink's numbers were Bruch's aria, "Odysseus" and the Brindisi from "Lucrezia Borgia." Scotti sang Ho Sognato. (De Leva), Tosti's "Invanno," and "Dio Possente," from "Faust," Plan?on was heard in the "Air Du Tambour Major" from "Le Cid" and Schumann's "Les Deux Grenadiers." Mme. Gadski had Elizabeth's air from "Tannh?user" and Agathe's aria from "Der Freisch?tz."
Rather more attention than usual was paid last night to the orchestra's share of the programme. There were, in all, six purely instrumental numbers. Saint-Sa?ns' whimsical "Wheel of Omphale" and Liszt's "Rhapsody No. 1," were the chief of these..
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