[Met Performance] CID:176830



Der Rosenkavalier
Metropolitan Opera House, Sat, January 18, 1958




Der Rosenkavalier (167)
Richard Strauss | Hugo von Hofmannsthal
Octavian
Mildred Miller

Princess von Werdenberg (Marschallin)
Eleanor Steber

Baron Ochs
Otto Edelmann

Sophie
Laurel Hurley

Faninal
Ralph Herbert

Annina
Margaret Roggero

Valzacchi
Alessio De Paolis

Italian Singer
Nicolai Gedda

Marianne
Thelma Votipka

Mahomet
Marsha Warren

Princess' Major-domo
Robert Nagy

Orphan
Madelaine Chambers

Orphan
Emilia Cundari

Orphan
Helen Vanni

Milliner
Mildred Allen

Animal Vendor
Gabor Carelli

Hairdresser
Steve Wiland

Notary
Gerhard Pechner

Leopold
Rudolf Mayreder

Faninal's Major-domo
Charles Anthony

Innkeeper
Paul Franke

Police Commissioner
Osie Hawkins


Conductor
Karl B?hm







Review 1:

Review of Robert Sabin in Musical America

At this performance, the season's fifth, Eleanor Steber took the role of the Marschallin for the first time this season, and Nicolai Gedda was heard for the first time at the Metropolitan in the role of the Italian tenor.

Miss Steber had performed the tremendously difficult and brilliant title role of Samuel Barber's 'Vanessa" at the world premiere only three nights previously, so that it was understandable that she husbanded her resources at this performance. It was in the last act, in the glorious trio, that the familiar Steber voice came through in all its silvery radiance. Dramatically, too, she was at her best in this act.

Brief though it is, the role of the Singer in "Der Rosenkavalier" is supremely demanding. (The Hamburg Opera once approached Caruso to do it and desisted only when his fee proved too high for its resources.) I have never heard it sung with greater elegance or command than Mr. Gedda brought to it. Karl Boehm, who again conducted, should have given him a bit more leeway in tempo.

The rest of the cast was familiar, including Otto Edelmann. Mildred Miller, Laurel Hurley, Ralph Herbert, and a host of others, all excellent.



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