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New Production
Die Zauberfl?te
Metropolitan Opera House, Thu, December 11, 1941
Debut : Rosa Bok
In English
Die Zauberfl?te (69)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Emanuel Schikaneder
- Pamina
- Jarmila Novotna
- Tamino
- Charles Kullman
- Queen of the Night
- Rosa Bok [Debut]
- Sarastro
- Alexander Kipnis
- Papageno
- John Brownlee
- Papagena
- Natalie Bodanya
- Monostatos
- Karl Laufk?tter
- Speaker
- Friedrich Schorr
- First Lady
- Eleanor Steber
- Second Lady
- Maxine Stellman
- Third Lady
- Anna Kaskas
- Genie
- Marita Farell
- Genie
- Mona Paulee
- Genie
- Helen Olheim
- Priest
- John Dudley
- Priest
- Louis D'Angelo
- Guard
- Emery Darcy
- Guard
- John Gurney
- Conductor
- Bruno Walter
- Director
- Herbert Graf
- Designer
- Richard Rychtarik
Translation by Ruth and Thomas Martin
Die Zauberfl?te received eight performances this season.
FUNDING:
Production a gift of The Metropolitan Opera Guild
Review 1:
Review by Virgil Thomson in the New York Herald Tribune
The evening as a whole was one of the most delightful I have spent at the Thirty-Ninth Street emporium of music in many years. The first cause of this pleasure was Bruno Walter. He paced the work so rightly, speeded it so justly, and balanced its sonorities so clearly that one was unaware that there was any conductor at all. The whole thing sprang as music full born and rounded. Rarely have I heard an opera so unmaimed. The second reason was the scenery and costumes of Mr. Richard Rychtarik. Though not strikingly original or powerful in themselves, they were dignified, fanciful, tasty. The stage direction was pleasing too, and the scene shifting, so often a dragger-out of this work, was as expeditious as anyone might wish. Shipshapeness was the note of the evening. The English text of Ruth and Thomas P. Martin was highly satisfactory.
Rarely have I been so sorry to leave a performance. From its beginning until eleven-fifteen it was lively and sensible. It was not a display of fine vocalism, for the most part; but it was at all times musically interesting and never dull to watch. Moreover, care for production detail, as well as musical, had given it a general harmony and integrity that are not easy qualities to achieve in a repertory theater. I may add that I have noted with pleasure the presence of these qualities in the Metropolitan's productions quite regularly this season. Someone is taking care.
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Met careers
- Bruno Walter [Conductor]
- Jarmila Novotna [Pamina]
- Charles Kullman [Tamino]
- Rosa Bok [Queen of the Night]
- Alexander Kipnis [Sarastro]
- John Brownlee [Papageno]
- Natalie Bodanya [Papagena]
- Karl Laufk?tter [Monostatos]
- Friedrich Schorr [Speaker]
- Eleanor Steber [First Lady]
- Maxine Stellman [Second Lady]
- Anna Kaskas [Third Lady]
- Marita Farell [Genie]
- Mona Paulee [Genie]
- Helen Olheim [Genie]
- John Dudley [Priest]
- Louis D'Angelo [Priest]
- Emery Darcy [Guard]
- John Gurney [Guard]
- Herbert Graf [Director]
- Richard Rychtarik [Designer]