[Met Performance] CID:112900



Das Rheingold
Ring Cycle [54] Uncut
Metropolitan Opera House, Fri, January 27, 1933 Matinee Broadcast





Das Rheingold (70)
Richard Wagner | Richard Wagner
Wotan
Friedrich Schorr

Fricka
Doris Doe

Alberich
Gustav Sch?tzendorf

Loge
Rudolf Laubenthal

Erda
Maria Olszewska

Fasolt
Siegfried Tappolet

Fafner
James Wolfe

Freia
Dorothee Manski

Froh
Hans Clemens

Donner
Arthur Anderson

Mime
Marek Windheim

Woglinde
Editha Fleischer

Wellgunde
Rose Bampton


Conductor
Artur Bodanzky


Director
Hanns Niedecken-Gebhard

Set Designer
Hans Kautsky


Ring Cycle [54] Uncut







Das Rheingold received one performance this season.
Part of Das Rheingold was broadcast from 3:15-5:00

Review 1:

Review signed H. in Musical America

The Only 'Rheingold'

The season's only production of "Das Rheingold" ushered in the annual Wagnerian special matinees on the afternoon of Jan. 27, before the usual rapt audience. The general ensemble of the performance was one of the best heard in some seasons. Individual highlights were less conspicuous, which may be the explanation. The orchestra, save for some very trying faulty intonation in the brass in the Prelude, played well and Artur Bodanzky's reading of the score was agreeable if not overwhelming.

Friedrich Schorr sang Wotan superbly, though his characterization was not especially impressive. Doris Doe's singing of Fricka's music was excellent in every respect. Dorothee Manski's Freia scarcely ranked with her other Wagnerian achievements. Maria Olszewska sang Erda for the first time, proclaiming sonorously the Earth-Goddess's few phrases. Rudolf Lanbenthal's Loge was crafty and mercurial and better sung than many of his recent performances. As Mime and Alberich, Marek Windheim and Gustav Sch?tzendorf gave their customary splendid performances. Siegfried Tappolet sang well as Fasolt and James Wolfe as Fafner. Hans Clemens was fair as Froh and Arthur Andersen somewhat indefinite as Donner.



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