[Met Performance] CID:5630



Fidelio
Metropolitan Opera House, Fri, January 14, 1887




Fidelio (11)
Ludwig van Beethoven | Joseph Sonnleithner
Leonore
Marianne Brandt

Florestan
Albert Niemann

Don Pizarro
Adolf Robinson

Rocco
Emil Fischer

Marzelline
Auguste Seidl-Kraus

Jaquino
Otto Kemlitz

Don Fernando
Rudolph Von Milde

First Prisoner
Julius Meyer

Second Prisoner
Emil Sänger


Conductor
Anton Seidl


Director
Mr. Van Hell

Set Designer
Charles Fox, Jr.

Set Designer
William Schaeffer





Fidelio received three performances this season.

Review 1:

Review of Henry Krehbiel in the New York Tribune:

Only one contretemps marred the enjoyment of the evening. The climactic scene in the opera is that of the attempted murder in the second act. It was given with wonderful pathos and power last night, but at its height, just as Fräulein Brandt and Herr Niemann were about to break out into the jubilant duet, "O, Namenlose Freude," a woman's loud laugh from one of the boxes broke the hush that had come over the audience. The heartless discord so disconcerted Fräulein Brandt that she missed her cue and after struggling through a dozen bars of the duet, with singers and musicians at sixes and sevens, Herr Seidl stopped the orchestra and started the number over again. There was a great deal of feeling over the incident manifested in the audience. After the curtain fell, the singers were called to the footlights seven or eight times, the applause growing in intensity with each recall. During the short pauses between the recalls hisses were directed toward the box



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