[Met Performance] CID:155590



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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