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Der Rosenkavalier
Metropolitan Opera House, Tue, January 10, 1950
Der Rosenkavalier (132)
Richard Strauss | Hugo von Hofmannsthal
- Octavian
- Jarmila Novotna
- Princess von Werdenberg (Marschallin)
- Eleanor Steber
- Baron Ochs
- Emanuel List
- Sophie
- Nadine Conner
- Faninal
- Hugh Thompson
- Annina
- Hertha Glaz
- Valzacchi
- Alessio De Paolis
- Italian Singer
- Kurt Baum
- Marianne
- Thelma Votipka
- Mahomet
- Peggy Smithers
- Princess' Major-domo
- Emery Darcy
- Orphan
- Paula Lenchner
- Orphan
- Maxine Stellman
- Orphan
- Thelma Altman
- Milliner
- Lois Hunt
- Animal Vendor
- Leslie Chabay
- Hairdresser
- Matthew Vittucci
- Notary
- Lawrence Davidson
- Leopold
- Ludwig Burgstaller
- Faninal's Major-domo
- Paul Franke
- Police Commissioner
- Lorenzo Alvary
- Conductor
- Max Rudolf
Review 1:
Review of Cecil Smith in Musical America:
Max Rudolf conducted the opera for the first time at the Metropolitan, and demonstrated, as he has in all his previous assignments, a firm technical mastery of the problems of the score, an exceptionally effective sense of pacing, and a warm sympathy for lyric passages.
Jarmila Novotna joined the cast as Octavian, singing with unusually fresh and attractive tone, and impersonating the impetuous boy in most convincing fashion. Of the others new to this year's cast, Nadine Conner sang prettily as Sophie; Kurt Baum delivered the Italian Tenor's aria with glorious ease and resonance; and Alessio de Paolis made Valzacchi a wonderfully sharp-edged, nasty little intrigant. Except for Lawrence Davidson, who appeared in the tiny part of the Notary for the first time at the Metropolitan, the rest of the roles were in the care of artists who had sung them in earlier representations.
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- Max Rudolf [Conductor]
- Jarmila Novotna [Octavian]
- Eleanor Steber [Princess von Werdenberg (Marschallin)]
- Emanuel List [Baron Ochs]
- Nadine Conner [Sophie]
- Hugh Thompson [Faninal]
- Hertha Glaz [Annina]
- Alessio De Paolis [Valzacchi]
- Kurt Baum [Italian Singer]
- Thelma Votipka [Marianne]
- Peggy Smithers [Mahomet]
- Emery Darcy [Princess' Major-domo]
- Paula Lenchner [Orphan]
- Maxine Stellman [Orphan]
- Thelma Altman [Orphan]
- Lois Hunt [Milliner]
- Leslie Chabay [Animal Vendor]
- Matthew Vittucci [Hairdresser]
- Lawrence Davidson [Notary]
- Ludwig Burgstaller [Leopold]
- Paul Franke [Faninal's Major-domo]
- Lorenzo Alvary [Police Commissioner]