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Der Rosenkavalier
Metropolitan Opera House, Fri, January 5, 1951
Debut : Fritz Krenn
Der Rosenkavalier (137)
Richard Strauss | Hugo von Hofmannsthal
- Octavian
- Ris? Stevens
- Princess von Werdenberg (Marschallin)
- Helen Traubel
- Baron Ochs
- Fritz Krenn [Debut]
- Sophie
- Erna Berger
- Faninal
- John Brownlee
- Annina
- Hertha Glaz
- Valzacchi
- Alessio De Paolis
- Italian Singer
- Kurt Baum
- Marianne
- Thelma Votipka
- Mahomet
- Peggy Smithers
- Princess' Major-domo
- Emery Darcy
- Orphan
- Barbara Troxell
- Orphan
- Paula Lenchner
- Orphan
- Margaret Roggero
- Milliner
- Genevieve Warner
- Animal Vendor
- Leslie Chabay
- Hairdresser
- Etienne Barone
- Notary
- Lawrence Davidson
- Leopold
- Ludwig Burgstaller
- Faninal's Major-domo
- Paul Franke
- Police Commissioner
- Lorenzo Alvary
- Conductor
- Fritz Reiner
- Director
- Herbert Graf
- Set Designer
- Hans Kautsky
- Costume Designer
- Alfred Roller
Der Rosenkavalier received seven performances this season.
Review 1:
Review of Irving Kolodin in The Saturday
The prospect of Traubel as the Marschallin, I need hardly mention, was one to give pause; so big a figure in the role whose performer should be wistful at least, if not fragile, appealing if not prepossessing, seemed all wrong. Maybe she shouldn't have undertaken it; but having decided to, she evoked a creature in her own image, no copy of another, and sang the music as no one heard here since Lotte Lehmann has-with an intelligence, a keenness, and a warmth remarkable for a first performance. Mostly she sat, and when she moved it was in a well-planned orbit. Some expressed surprise that she could color and shade her big voice so adroitly but it is precisely that which has been outstanding in her recent Isoldes. One can hardly call it a great Marschallin, for it is two-dimensional, so to speak; but it is a beautifully sung one which does honor to Traubel's purpose as an artist.
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- Fritz Reiner [Conductor]
- Ris? Stevens [Octavian]
- Helen Traubel [Princess von Werdenberg (Marschallin)]
- Fritz Krenn [Baron Ochs]
- Erna Berger [Sophie]
- John Brownlee [Faninal]
- Hertha Glaz [Annina]
- Alessio De Paolis [Valzacchi]
- Kurt Baum [Italian Singer]
- Thelma Votipka [Marianne]
- Peggy Smithers [Mahomet]
- Emery Darcy [Princess' Major-domo]
- Barbara Troxell [Orphan]
- Paula Lenchner [Orphan]
- Margaret Roggero [Orphan]
- Genevieve Warner [Milliner]
- Leslie Chabay [Animal Vendor]
- Etienne Barone [Hairdresser]
- Lawrence Davidson [Notary]
- Ludwig Burgstaller [Leopold]
- Paul Franke [Faninal's Major-domo]
- Lorenzo Alvary [Police Commissioner]
- Herbert Graf [Director]
- Hans Kautsky [Set Designer]
- Alfred Roller [Costume Designer]