[Met Performance] CID:5750



Fidelio
Vienna Waltzes
Metropolitan Opera House, Thu, February 3, 1887




Fidelio (13)
Ludwig van Beethoven | Joseph Sonnleithner
Leonore
Lilli Lehmann

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


Vienna Waltzes (5)






Selections from the ballet Vienna Waltzes were presented to round out the evening. The program does not list the selections that were performed. For information on Vienna Waltzes see 11/19/1886

Review 1:

Review in The New York Times:

METROPOLITAN OPERA. HOUSE

Last evening's performance of "Fidelio" brought to the Metropolitan Opera House the largest audience, with one exception, that has gathered to witness a representation of grand opera in German at the up-town establishment. But for the bad weather the little standing room left would undoubtedly have been filled, and as the receipts would in that case have exceeded those of the recent "Tristan" matinée, it would have been clear that if nowadays popular taste inclines considerably to Wagner, it is not wholly indifferent to Beethoven. "Fidelio" was interpreted yesterday by the artists that were last concerned in its rendering, Herr Niemann singing Florestan, Herr Fischer Rocco, Herr Robinson Pizarro, Herr Keinlitz Jaquino, Fräulein Lehmann Leonore, and Frau Seidl-Krauss Marcellina. The pathos of Herr Niemann's performance will be remembered, we fancy, when the dignity and earnestness of some of the more brilliant characters he has depicted have passed out of the beholders' memory; vocally, of course, the German tenor's portrayal is not to be referred to as either grateful or impressive. Fräulein Lehmann's Leonore was far more interesting and striking from an emotional standpoint than when first seen at the Metropolitan; in point of conception and execution, however, it is so manifestly inferior to Fräulem Brandt's, that even the temporary withdrawal of the rôle from the older artist, if not dictated by the exigencies of the répertoire, must be regarded as injudicious. The general rendering of "Fidelio" afforded, nevertheless, lively satisfaction. The singers were called before the curtain again and again. Beethoven's opera was followed by scenes from "The Vienna Waltzes," in which Mme. Cavalazzi and Fräulein Leonhardt emerged from the seclusion in which they are kept by the steady attractiveness of the "music-drama." Both "ballerine" were cordially greeted and heartily applauded.



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