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New Production

Werther
New Theatre, Manhattan, New York, Tue, November 16, 1909

Debut : Egisto Tango, Edmond Clément, Dinh Gilly, Alma Gluck, Leo Devaux, Else Michaelis, Ruth Smith, Henriette Moss, Anne Smith, Kurt Stern




Werther (4)
Jules Massenet | Édouard Blau/Paul Milliet/Georges Hartmann
Werther
Edmond Clément [Debut]

Charlotte
Geraldine Farrar

Albert
Dinh Gilly [Debut]

Sophie
Alma Gluck [Debut]

Bailiff
Antonio Pini-Corsi

Schmidt
Leo Devaux [Debut]

Johann
Georges Bourgeois

Käthchen
Else Michaelis [Debut]

Brühlmann
Walter Koch

Child
Anna Case

Child
Lillia Snelling

Child
Lucette De Lievin

Child
Ruth Smith [Debut]

Child
Henriette Moss [Debut]

Child
Anne Smith [Debut]


Conductor
Egisto Tango [Debut]


Director
Kurt Stern [Debut]

Set Designer
Burghart & Co.





Werther received seven performances this season.
The inaugural program for the New Theatre contained this apology: "Owing to unforeseen delay in having the lighting apparatus, other stage mechanism and needed facilities completed, and the consequent impossibility to secure for this first presentation adequate stage rehearsals, the opera Werther cannot be presented this evening in full accordance with the standards of this company. The Metropolitan Opera Company and The New Theatre management, however, believe they are meeting the wishes of their patrons in not postponing the performance, but respectfully request the indulgence of the audience for unavoidable shortcomings."
Postcard showing the New Theatre, located at Central Park West between 62nd and 63rd Streets.

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