[Met Performance] CID:19450

Opening Night {14}, General Manager (Managing Director): Maurice Grau

Tannhäuser
Metropolitan Opera House, Tue, November 29, 1898




Tannhäuser (77)
Richard Wagner | Richard Wagner
Tannhäuser
Ernest Van Dyck

Elisabeth
Emma Eames

Wolfram
Henri Albers

Venus
Lillian Nordica

Hermann
Pol Plançon

Walther
Jacques Bars

Heinrich
Hans Meffert

Biterolf
Adolph Mühlmann

Reinmar
Theodore Meux

Shepherd
Louise Meisslinger


Conductor
Luigi Mancinelli







Review 1:

Review of W.J. Henderson:

...Mme. Eames sang Elisabeth in German for the first time here. Her voice was in glorious condition, and a glorious voice it is. How grandly it rolled out last night, and how tender in color it was when that was necessary. But Mme. Eames's style is essentially lyric, and she does not always rise to the full height of Elizabeth's declamation. In the pleading to her father she was admirable, but her "Dich teure halle" lacked breadth and authority. In the third act she sang beautifully. Her enunciation of the German text was not all that could be desired, but on the whole she made a lovely and lovable Elizabeth.

M. Plancon sang in German for the first time. He was a dignified and courtly Landgrave, but he was suffering from a cold so badly that Mr. Grau made an apology for him after the first act. It was a delight to judges of singing to see how excellently he managed his voice in the trying circumstances. M. Henri Albers, the new French baritone of the company, sang Wolfram in German. This, too, was a first experience with the original text. M. Albers will probably be greatly liked before the season is over. He has a sonorous and smooth voice of beautiful quality, and he sings a lovely cantilena. He did not show much declamatory power last night, but he sang with genuine feeling.



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