[Met Performance] CID:49720



Siegfried
Metropolitan Opera House, Sat, January 14, 1911 Matinee





Siegfried (93)
Richard Wagner | Richard Wagner
Siegfried
Carl Burrian

Brünnhilde
Lucie Weidt [Last performance]

Wanderer
Walter Soomer

Erda
Louise Homer

Mime
Albert Reiss

Alberich
Otto Goritz

Fafner
Basil Ruysdael

Forest Bird
Bella Alten


Conductor
Alfred Hertz


Director
Anton Schertel

Set Designer
Obronsky, Impekoven & Co.





Siegfried received two performances this season.

Review 1:

Review in The New York Times

"SIEGFRIED" AT THE OPERA

First Performance of Wagner's Drama with Lucie Weidt as Brünnhilde

"Siegfried" was given for the first time this season at the Metropolitan Opera House yesterday afternoon. The matinee audience was large and heard a performance that in many respects was extremely fine. There is not often a better performance of the first act heard than was given yesterday afternoon. Messrs. Burrian, Reiss, and Soomer, Mr. Hertz and the orchestra all seemed peculiarly well disposed and full of a mutual understanding. By the time the third act was reached, however, Mr. Hertz had been wrought up to his highest pitch of strenuosity, and there were some very crashing fortissimos of the orchestra in the introduction and in the long apostrophe that the Wanderer had put to it at moments to make it evident that he was singing at all. There was a good deal of orchestral vociferation also in the last scene between Brünnhilde and Siegfried.

This scene brought Miss Lucie Weidt before the public for the first time as the "Siegfried" Brünnhilde. She made perhaps a greater success of it than she did the Brünnhilde in "Die Walküre." She sang with power, with large and dramatic style. The voice is hardly a warm or an eloquent one, nor does Miss Weidt develop her dramatic declamation with a uniform finish of vocal style. Her stage presence in this scene was striking, and filled the eye. There might have been more tenderness and passion in her exposition of her love "the hero who has awakened her;" yet her impersonation was quite impressive, and it was intelligent and well considered.

Mr. Burrian's Siegfried, Mr. Soomer's Wanderer, Mr. Reiss' Mime, were all well known to this public. They are among the best impersonation of these characters that are now to be heard, all excellent in voice and declamation, and in dramatic effect. The first act was really noteworthy for the clearness and intelligibility of the declamation of Messrs. Burrian and Reiss in their several soliloquies and dialogues.>/b>



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