[Met Performance] CID:5580



Tannhäuser
Metropolitan Opera House, Wed, January 5, 1887




Tannhäuser (31)
Richard Wagner | Richard Wagner
Tannhäuser
Albert Niemann

Elisabeth
Auguste Seidl-Kraus

Wolfram
Adolf Robinson

Venus
Lilli Lehmann

Hermann
Emil Fischer

Walther
Max Alvary

Heinrich
Otto Kemlitz

Biterolf
Max Heinrich

Reinmar
Emil Sänger

Shepherd
Ida Klein


Conductor
Anton Seidl







Review 1:

Review in The New York Times

METROPOLITAN OPERA HOUSE.

Last evening's performance of "Tannhäuser" attracted to the Metropolitan Opera House an audience whose numbers afforded no indication whatever of the rough weather out of doors. The opera was sung by the same artists that have been concerned in all its representations this season, and that it was given with quite as much earnestness and spirit as on earlier occasions will be guessed by a mention of the fact that the performers were called out whenever the curtain fell. Herr Niemann's portrayal of Tannhäuser was, if anything, more intense and pathetic in the closing incidents of the second act than ever before: a more touching spectacle of grief and contrition has never, indeed, been beheld upon the stage. Herr Robinson, too, was in uncommonly good form, and his admirable method lent unusual charm to the cantabile measures which abound in Wolfram's music. Herren Fischer, Alvary, Heinrich, and Kemlitz, and Fräulein Lehmann completed the cast, than which a better one could scarcely be wished.



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