[Met Performance] CID:3320



Les Huguenots
Metropolitan Opera House, Sat, January 10, 1885 Matinee



In German



Les Huguenots (7)
Giacomo Meyerbeer | Eugène Scribe/Émile Deschamps
Marguerite de Valois
Marie Schröder-Hanfstängl

Raoul de Nangis
Anton Schott

Valentine
Amalie Materna

Count de Nevers
Alkuir Blum

Urbain
Anna Slach

Count de Saint Bris
Josef Staudigl

Marcel
Joseph Kögel

Tavannes
Otto Kemlitz

Cossé
Martin Paché

Thoré
Carl Baumann

Retz
Emil Totzech

Méru
Hermann Weber

Lady of Honor
Carrie Morse

Bois-Rosé
Emil Tiferro [Last performance]

Maurevert
Joseph Miller

Dance
Lucia Cormani

Dance
Isolina Torri

Dance
Adèle Zollia


Conductor
Leopold Damrosch





The striking male chorus was replaced with new singers for this performance, thus ending the strike.

Review 1:

Review of Henry Krehbiel, New York Tribune

Materna sang the music of Valentina's part with a sympathetic understanding of the dramatic life, as well as the melodic beauty of the role, and her action was appropriately impassioned, while it exhibited a greater command of resources than is usually seen on the operatic stage. In every number there were opportunities to admire her declamation, which differs in a marked degree from the best efforts of her companions (none of whom except Herr Koegel, are indifferent to this characteristically German trait) in that it contains no signs of effort or special stress of purpose. It does not, as is frequently the case with these serious-minded artists, kill the lyric element in her music, but raised the sustained and smoothly flowing melodies to a new dignity. Yet not a syllable of the text is lost.



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