[Met Tour] CID:124010



Der Rosenkavalier
American Academy of Music, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Tue, November 22, 1938

Debut : Ris? Stevens, Sari Montague, Erich Witte




Der Rosenkavalier (63)
Richard Strauss | Hugo von Hofmannsthal
Octavian
Ris? Stevens [Debut]

Princess von Werdenberg (Marschallin)
Lotte Lehmann

Baron Ochs
Emanuel List

Sophie
Marita Farell

Faninal
Friedrich Schorr

Annina
Doris Doe

Valzacchi
Karl Laufk?tter

Italian Singer
Nicholas Massue

Marianne
Dorothee Manski

Mahomet
Sari Montague [Debut]

Princess' Major-domo/Faninal's Major-domo/Innkeeper
Erich Witte [Debut]

Orphan
Natalie Bodanya

Orphan
Lucielle Browning

Orphan
Anna Kaskas

Milliner
Pearl Besuner

Animal Vendor
Giordano Paltrinieri

Hairdresser
Juan Casanova

Notary
Arnold Gabor

Leopold
Ludwig Burgstaller

Police Commissioner
Norman Cordon


Conductor
Artur Bodanzky


Director
Leopold Sachse

Set Designer
Hans Kautsky

Costume Designer
Alfred Roller





Der Rosenkavalier received four performances this season.

Review 1:

Review of Edwin H. Schloss in the Philadelphia Enquirer

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Of course Lotte Lehmann was the Marschallin of the evening. There would have been no perfection without her presence in a role to which she is as Flagstad is to Isolde-namely, the greatest of our time. In excellent voice, Mme. Lehmann gave her usual heart-warming impersonation of the Princess von Werdenberg, the aging beauty who surrenders her youthful cavalier to the happiness with a younger woman. Emanuel List's "Baron Ochs" is a worthy companion piece to Mme. Lehmann's "Marschallin." He is inimitable as the "aufgeblasene" old lecher in brocade whose misadventures with petticoats furnish most of the opera's comedy.

Headed by Lehmann and List, last night's cast was lavishly recruited from the Met's upper brackets of talent, even to comparatively minor parts. There were, for example, such distinguished Wagnerites as Friedrich Schorr and Doris Doe, shining in the lesser roles of "Von Faninal" and the intriguing "Annina." Marita Farell, too was charming in the difficult vocal altitudes of the part of "Sophie."

But a stage debutante whom last night's audience took especially to its heart was a young American mezzo, Rise Stevens, who made her first appearance here as the "Octavian"-the "Rose Cavalier"-of the evening. Miss Stevens made her debut in distinguished company, but with no embarrassment whatever. She is vocally and dramatically one of the best-perhaps the best-"Octavian" seen here in many years, possessed of a fine vocal equipment intelligently used and of a stage presence and acting ability far above the usual "operatic" standards.

A Ris? Stevens Album



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