[Met Performance] CID:50670

United States Premiere, New Production

Ariane et Barbe-bleue
Ballet Divertissement
Metropolitan Opera House, Wed, March 29, 1911




Ariane et Barbe-bleue (1)
Paul Dukas | Maurice Maeterlinck
Ariane
Geraldine Farrar

Barbe-bleue
Léon Rothier

Nurse
Florence Wickham

Sélysette
Jeanne Maubourg

Ygraine
Lenora Sparkes

Mélisande
Rosina Van Dyck

Bellangère
Henriette Wakefield

Alladine
Lucia Fornaroli

Old Peasant
Georges Bourgeois

Peasant
Bernard Bégué

Peasant
Basil Ruysdael


Conductor
Arturo Toscanini


Director
Jules Speck

Set Designer
Antonio Rovescalli

Costume Designer
Maison Muelle


Ballet Divertissement







Rubinstein: La Nuit
Anna Pavlova


Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 {10}
Kyprian Barboe, Hilda Bewickowa, Stanislava Kun, Mikail Moisseiew, Sergei Moroseff, Bronislawa Pajitzskaia, Plaskowietzkaia, Alina Schmolz, Alexis Trojanowski, Veronine West

Glazunov: L'Automne Bacchanale {17}
Anna Pavlova, Mikail Mordkin


Conductor...............Josef Pasternack

Review 1:

Review of Algernon St. John Brenon in the Telegraph:

Ariane, as the dramatist drew her, is alive with the verve of spiritual and womanly strength. She is unconscious of self, she is energetic, radiant, joyous and spontaneous in her defiances, lively, sweet, simple and altogether delicious. The poetry of this delightful character originates in her glowing and rapid willingness to serve, in her directness, and in her lucid simplicity of purpose. But alas! Miss Farrar was none of these things. She preached. She rhetoricized. She dominated and she lectured. She was the New Woman, overwhelmed by her newness and forgetting her womanliness. Where she derived some of the contortionate and therefore meaningless gestures in which she indulged no man could tell. Her conception of the role is in need of total revision.

Production photos of Ariane et Barbe-bleue by White Studio.



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