[Met Performance] CID:92370



Lohengrin
Metropolitan Opera House, Fri, February 12, 1926




Lohengrin (346)
Richard Wagner | Richard Wagner
Lohengrin
Curt Taucher

Elsa
Nanny Lars?n-Todsen

Ortrud
Karin Branzell

Telramund
Friedrich Schorr

King Heinrich
Michael Bohnen

Herald
Lawrence Tibbett

Page
Louise Hunter

Page
Minnie Egener

Page
Charlotte Ryan

Page
Mary Bonetti


Conductor
Artur Bodanzky







Review 1:

Review signed L. B. P. in Musical America

The evening "Lohengrin" was from earlier performances by a first assumption of the part of Elsa by Nanny Larsen-Todsen, and by the return to the company of Friedrich Schorr, who appeared as Telramund. The soprano gave Elsa a character verging on the heroic, rather than that of the too-cooing dove, both in her singing and her acting. It was an effective impersonation, if not an altogether traditional one. Schorr's beautiful baritone voice made every bar of Telramund's music sound gratefully vocal. There was some superb singing also of Karin Branzell as Ortrud, and Michael Bohnen was an imposing and resonant King Henry. Curt Taucher sang his seasonal farewell as Lohengrin, and acted with his customary earnestness and good routine. Lawrence Tibbett was all Wagner's Herald should be - a resonant voice.

Artur Bodanzky conducted a performance which had many individual good qualities, but which was not any too highly charged with vitality in orchestra and ensemble.



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