[Met Performance] CID:1340



Don Giovanni
Metropolitan Opera House, Wed, December 12, 1883




Don Giovanni (3)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Lorenzo Da Ponte
Don Giovanni
Giuseppe Kaschmann

Donna Anna
Emmy Fursch-Madi

Don Ottavio
Italo Campanini

Donna Elvira
Christine Nilsson

Leporello
Giovanni Mirabella

Zerlina
Marcella Sembrich

Masetto
Baldassare Corsini

Commendatore
Achille Augier


Conductor
Auguste Vianesi





The Act I trio for Donna Anna, Donna Elvira, and Don Ottavio was repeated.

Review 1:

Review in The New York Times

METROPOLITAN OPERA HOUSE

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"Don Giovanni" was given once more at the Metropolitan Opera house last evening in the presence of a large and very enthusiastic audience. The performance of this opera has vastly improved since the first representation, and was last evening thoroughly enjoyable. Mme. Nilsson was in charming voice, and her music was given with an abundance of power, tempered with the artistic finish which is never absent from her work. She sang her long aria in the first act in a superb style, and, indeed, was heard to decided advantage throughout the opera. Mme. Fursch-Madi, whose excellent work in "Don Giovanni" has been before mentioned, sang last night with excellent effect. Her fine dramatic scene with Don Ottavio in the first act, in which she describes the perfidy of Don Giovanni, was given with splendid feeling and force, and thoroughly aroused the enthusiasm of the house. Mme. Sembrich was the same vivacious Zerlina as she was before. Her two principal arias were given with exquisite finish and her acting was marked by unusual sprightliness and abandon. Signor Stagno was indisposed and his place was filled by Signor Campanini, whose Don Ottavio proved to be a tower of strength in the male portion of the cast. He was in excellent voice, and sang and acted with superb vigor. In the beautiful trio of the first act he and Mmes. Nilsson and Fursch-Madi gave a delightful exhibition of the noblest kind of vocalization. The number was almost rapturously applauded, and was repeated with telling effect. Signor Kaschmann has much improved his impersonation of Don Giovanni, and was last night, a very good representative of the part. Signor Mirabella has likewise bettered his work in Leporello while Signor Corsini acted Masetto with capital humor, and M. Angier was an agreeable Il Cornmendator. The chorus has become much better in its work, and gave its share of the opera smoothly. The work of the orchestra was highly commendable throughout the evening.



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