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Some quick changing of costumes was required last night from Editha Fleischer, German soprano, who sang the part of Pamina in last night's performance of Mozart's "Die Zauberfl?te" ("The Magic Flute") at the Metropolitan Opera House. But Marcella Roessler, billed as the First Lady, developed a last-minute cold, and Mme. Fleischer consented to sing this role, which she had taken in this season's previous performances of the Mozart opera, as well. This doubling, as W. J. Guard remarked in an announcement before the curtain, required five changes of apparel.

Mme. Fleischer, who has sung Pamina in Brooklyn, but not in Manhattan before this, sang it very well, except for a little rippling in the tone. There was also a new Tamino, George Meader, whose previous part of Monostatos was transferred to Max Bloch. Mr. Meader sang his first aria with feeling and good quality of tone, though his voice seemed once or twice a little light for the part; in one number of what we heard of Act II, there seemed a certain hardness of tone.

Mr. Sch?tzendorf repeated his lively Papageno, while Louise Hunter again proved happy in the part of Papagena. Mr. Ludikar as Sarastro, Mr. Cehanovsky the Speaker, and Mmes. Wakefield, Howard, Ryan, Anthony and Flexner, Messrs. Gabor, Burgstaller, and Gustafson? Mr. Bloch also represented an unnamed Voice. Marion Talley sang the Queen of the Night.

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