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Parsifal
Metropolitan Opera House, Thu, December 1, 1904
Debut : Roberta Glanville
Parsifal (14)
Richard Wagner | Richard Wagner
- Parsifal
- Alois Burgstaller
- Kundry
- Olive Fremstad
- Amfortas
- Anton Van Rooy
- Gurnemanz
- Marcel Journet
- Klingsor
- Otto Goritz
- Titurel
- Adolph M?hlmann
- Voice
- Josephine Jacoby
- Second Esquire/Flower Maiden
- Paula Braendle
- Third Esquire
- Albert Reiss
- Fourth Esquire
- Werner Alberti
- First Knight
- Julius Bayer
- Second Knight
- Emil Greder
- Flower Maiden
- Susanne Baker
- Flower Maiden
- Lucy Lee Call
- Flower Maiden
- Jessie Clevinger
- Flower Maiden
- Minnie Egener
- Flower Maiden
- Mildred Elliott
- Flower Maiden
- Roberta Glanville [Debut]
- Flower Maiden
- Bessie Greenwood
- Flower Maiden
- Elsa Harris
- Flower Maiden
- Lillian Heidelbach
- Flower Maiden
- Jeannette Herzog
- Flower Maiden
- Lucille Lawrence
- Flower Maiden
- Marguerite Lemon
- Flower Maiden
- Helen Mapleson
- Flower Maiden
- Lucie Isabelle Marsh
- Flower Maiden
- Maud Meredith
- Flower Maiden
- Miss Franklin
- Flower Maiden
- Miss White
- First Esquire/Flower Maiden
- Katherine Moran
- Flower Maiden
- Florence Mulford
- Flower Maiden
- Selma Pfeiffer
- Flower Maiden
- Rosa Ritchie
- Flower Maiden
- Mabel Rockwell
- Flower Maiden
- Alice Sanford
- Flower Maiden
- Ada Schramm
- Flower Maiden
- Estelle Shearman
- Flower Maiden
- Adeline Thomas
- Flower Maiden
- Edith Vail
- Flower Maiden
- India Waelchli
- Flower Maiden
- Blanche Yorke
- Flower Maiden
- Blanche Yurka
- Conductor
- Alfred Hertz
This listing for the Flower Maidens reflects the way they were given in the program. In announcements of Parsifal for this season, Marguerite Lemon, already a solo artist with the company, was included among the principals. When the names of the others were not listed, they were described as "The Pupils of the Opera School".
Review 1:
Review of Henry Krehbiel in the New York Tribune:
But the new Kundry was, of course, the chief feature of interest. Last night it fell to Mme. Fremstad to undertake the difficult task. How well she acquitted herself we shall not undertake to say in the midst of yesterday's musical hurly-burly, lest injustice be done to Wagner, to her and to her associates in the part. Her voice gave her the advantage in the first act, over most of her predecessors, except Mme. Kirkby-Lunn, who must also be considered. It left her at a considerable disadvantage in much of the music of the second. But Kundry is not merely a singing role. There is not a trace of the conventional operatic marionette in it, and in the things which mark the line of difference most broadly she was gratifying. Hers is the sort of dramatic intelligence which Wagner calls for; hers is also the intelligence, quickened, warmed, inspired by feeling and whole-hearted devotion. She did not attempt to body forth the first phase of the contradictory character of Wagner's compound creation by vocal explosions in her curt speeches and wildness of gesture, but by eloquent declamation. It was a triumph of spirit over matter, and the lovers of "Parsifal" were made glad.
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Met careers
- Alfred Hertz [Conductor]
- Alois Burgstaller [Parsifal]
- Olive Fremstad [Kundry]
- Anton Van Rooy [Amfortas]
- Marcel Journet [Gurnemanz]
- Otto Goritz [Klingsor]
- Adolph M?hlmann [Titurel]
- Josephine Jacoby [Voice]
- Paula Braendle [Second Esquire/Flower Maiden]
- Albert Reiss [Third Esquire]
- Werner Alberti [Fourth Esquire]
- Julius Bayer [First Knight]
- Emil Greder [Second Knight]
- Susanne Baker [Flower Maiden]
- Lucy Lee Call [Flower Maiden]
- Jessie Clevinger [Flower Maiden]
- Minnie Egener [Flower Maiden]
- Mildred Elliott [Flower Maiden]
- Roberta Glanville [Flower Maiden]
- Bessie Greenwood [Flower Maiden]
- Elsa Harris [Flower Maiden]
- Lillian Heidelbach [Flower Maiden]
- Jeannette Herzog [Flower Maiden]
- Lucille Lawrence [Flower Maiden]
- Marguerite Lemon [Flower Maiden]
- Helen Mapleson [Flower Maiden]
- Lucie Isabelle Marsh [Flower Maiden]
- Maud Meredith [Flower Maiden]
- Miss Franklin [Flower Maiden]
- Miss White [Flower Maiden]
- Katherine Moran [First Esquire/Flower Maiden]
- Florence Mulford [Flower Maiden]
- Selma Pfeiffer [Flower Maiden]
- Rosa Ritchie [Flower Maiden]
- Mabel Rockwell [Flower Maiden]
- Alice Sanford [Flower Maiden]
- Ada Schramm [Flower Maiden]
- Estelle Shearman [Flower Maiden]
- Adeline Thomas [Flower Maiden]
- Edith Vail [Flower Maiden]
- India Waelchli [Flower Maiden]
- Blanche Yorke [Flower Maiden]
- Blanche Yurka [Flower Maiden]