[Met Performance] CID:7370



Das Rheingold
Ring Cycle
Metropolitan Opera House, Fri, March 15, 1889




Das Rheingold (8)
Richard Wagner | Richard Wagner
Wotan
Emil Fischer

Fricka
Fanny Moran-Olden

Alberich
Joseph Beck

Loge
Max Alvary

Erda/Flosshilde
Hedwig Reil

Fasolt
Ludwig Mödlinger

Fafner
Eugene Weiss

Freia
Ida Klein

Froh
Albert Mittelhauser

Donner
Alois Grienauer

Mime
Wilhelm Sedlmayer

Woglinde
Sophie Traubmann

Wellgunde
Félicie Kaschowska


Conductor
Anton Seidl








Review 1:

Review in the New York Times.:

When the gauze drops had been lowered in front of the depths of the Rhine at the end of the first scene of "Das Rheingold," at the Metropolitan Opera House last evening, a crash on the stage was heard by the audience, followed by the cries of a man in severe pain. Herr Seidl permitted the orchestra to play the music that connects the first and second scenes a trifle more loudly than usual, and most of those in the house probably thought that the cries were uttered by stage hands at their work.

This was not the case, however. Herr Josef Beck, who has the part of Alberich, the Nibelung, has to climb to the top of a high rock near the end of the first scene to snatch the Rhine gold. In descending in the darkness after the drops were down and the lights lowered he fell a distance of four or five feet, and in falling knocked over a heavy piece of "set" rock, which fell on him. His right arm was very badly sprained and was thought to be broken.

He was carried to his dressing room and a physician was summoned. On examination the arm proved to be not broken, and the injuries sustained, though painful, were not disabling. Herr Beck very pluckily finished his evening's work with his arm concealed in a sling under his costume.



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