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Die Zauberfl?te
Metropolitan Opera House, Sat, January 22, 1944
Debut : Audrey Bowman
In English
Die Zauberfl?te (86)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Emanuel Schikaneder
- Pamina
- Jarmila Novotna
- Tamino
- James Melton
- Queen of the Night
- Audrey Bowman [Debut]
- Sarastro
- Alexander Kipnis
- Papageno
- John Brownlee
- Papagena
- Lillian Raymondi
- Monostatos
- Karl Laufk?tter
- Speaker
- Norman Cordon
- First Lady
- Eleanor Steber
- Second Lady
- Maxine Stellman
- Third Lady
- Anna Kaskas
- Genie
- Marita Farell
- Genie
- Mona Paulee
- Genie
- Thelma Altman
- Priest
- John Dudley
- Priest
- Louis D'Angelo
- Guard
- Emery Darcy
- Guard
- John Gurney
- Conductor
- Bruno Walter
Review 1:
Review of Noel Strauss in The New York Times
BOWMAN DEBUT MADE IN "THE MAGIC FLUTE"
Soprano Sings Queen of Night Role at the Metropolitan
In the season's third performance of Mozart's "The Magic Flute," last night at the Metropolitan Opera House, Audrey Bowman, 26-year-old soprano from
Cleveland, made her debut with the company in the difficult role of the Queen of the Night.
Miss Bowman sang the elaborate ornamental passages of her two arias cleanly and accurately, encompassing without effort the many altitudinous phrases allotted her. In these coloratura flights the voice was of pleasing texture, but elsewhere in the arias the tones were pushed and became inferior in quality through an attempt to give them the required dramatic emphasis.
But no final judgment should be passed on the singer's vocal attainments until she has been heard in a less exacting part than the one chosen for her initial appearance, since it is unmatched in its demands, and probably has not been sung as it should be by any vocalist except Mozart's sister-in-law, for whom it was composed, who alone seems to have had the flexible dramatic voice of exceptional range that it calls for.
Alexander Kipnis appeared for the first time this winter in his familiar role of Sarastro. The other members of the cast had all been heard in the work previously during the season, the principals including Jarmila Novotna as Pamina, James Melton as Tamino, John Brownlee as Papageno, Norman Cordon as the High Priest and Karl Laufk?tter as Monostatos. Bruno Walter again conducted.
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- Bruno Walter [Conductor]
- Jarmila Novotna [Pamina]
- James Melton [Tamino]
- Audrey Bowman [Queen of the Night]
- Alexander Kipnis [Sarastro]
- John Brownlee [Papageno]
- Lillian Raymondi [Papagena]
- Karl Laufk?tter [Monostatos]
- Norman Cordon [Speaker]
- Eleanor Steber [First Lady]
- Maxine Stellman [Second Lady]
- Anna Kaskas [Third Lady]
- Marita Farell [Genie]
- Mona Paulee [Genie]
- Thelma Altman [Genie]
- John Dudley [Priest]
- Louis D'Angelo [Priest]
- Emery Darcy [Guard]
- John Gurney [Guard]