[Met Performance] CID:5270

Metropolitan Opera Premiere, New Production

Aida
Metropolitan Opera House, Fri, November 12, 1886

Debut : Carl Zobel, Carl Schäffel


In German



Aida (1)
Giuseppe Verdi | Antonio Ghislanzoni
Aida
Therese Herbert-Förster

Radamès
Carl Zobel [Debut]

Amneris
Marianne Brandt

Amonasro
Adolf Robinson

Ramfis
Emil Fischer

King
Georg Sieglitz

Messenger
Otto Kemlitz

Priestess
Leonore Better


Conductor
Anton Seidl


Director
Mr. Van Hell

Set Designer
Henry E. Hoyt

Costume Designer
Carl Schäffel [Debut]

Choreographer
Giovanni Ambroggio

Composer
Giuseppe Verdi

Giuseppe Verdi



Aida received four performances in German this season.

Review 1:

Review of W. J. Henderson, The New York Times:

In noting that the most recent revival of "Aida" in New York is marked by unprecedented liberality and taste in all that concerns its scenic needs, it will be readily understood that the management's determination to assign the score a place of honor in the current repertoire is the outgrowth of a sincere desire to make its stock in trade as varied as possible. It was evident, however, from last evening's performance that different conductorship and, in some instances, different singers must be had if Italian opera, pure and simple, is to be sung with German words at the Metropolitan. Many of the most beautiful and striking passages lost all their effect through the unconscionable dragging of the tempos by Herr Seidl, many symmetrical and melodic strains were drawn out of shape by a tendency to excessive emphasis on the part of the performers, and in the labors of almost all the artists there was discerned a want of refinement in feeling and expression.



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