[Met Performance] CID:6530



Götterdämmerung
Metropolitan Opera House, Fri, February 3, 1888




Götterdämmerung (3)
Richard Wagner | Richard Wagner
Brünnhilde
Lilli Lehmann

Siegfried
Albert Niemann

Gunther
Adolf Robinson

Gutrune
Auguste Seidl-Kraus

Hagen
Emil Fischer

Alberich
Rudolph Von Milde

Woglinde
Sophie Traubmann

Wellgunde
Marianne Brandt

Flosshilde
Louise Meisslinger


Conductor
Anton Seidl





In this season't performances of Götterdämmerung, the following music was omitted: the scene with the three Norns in the Prologue; and in Act I, Scene 3, the scene between Brünnhilde and Waltraute.

Review 1:

Review in The New York Times

"DIE GÖTTERDAÄMMERUNG."

The largest audience that has attended an operatic performance this season was present in the Metropolitan Opera House last evening at the presentation of "Die Götterdämmerung" which finished the first production of Wagner's "Nibelungen Trilogy" in its order. The upper part of the house was so crowded that it looked top heavy and every available inch of standing room on the lower floor was filled. The attention paid to the performance by those in all parts of the house was such as to delight the most extreme Wagnerite, and the enthusiastic applause which followed the fall of the curtain at the end of each act showed that the progress of the drama was observed with keen pleasure. All the singers, save Herr Robinson, were in good form. The baritone was not in good voice, but be acquitted himself tolerably. Herr Niemann, Fräulein Lehmann and Herr Fischer repeated their good work and the orchestra and chorus, though the former was somewhat too powerful at times, were efficient.



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