[Met Performance] CID:83550



Lohengrin
Metropolitan Opera House, Thu, March 8, 1923




Lohengrin (325)
Richard Wagner | Richard Wagner
Lohengrin
Orville Harrold

Elsa
Barbara Kemp

Ortrud
Julia Claussen

Telramund
Clarence Whitehill

King Heinrich
Michael Bohnen

Herald
Gustav Schützendorf

Page
Charlotte Ryan

Page
Laura Robertson

Page
Myrtle Schaaf

Page
Grace Bradley


Conductor
Artur Bodanzky


Director
Samuel Thewman

Designer
Joseph Urban





Lohengrin received four performances this season.

Review 1:

Review in the World

"Lohengrin," revived last year for Miss Jeritza, came back into the repertoire last night without her. The Elsa was Barbara Kemp, and there were other details slightly approaching novelty in the casting in the appearance of Orville Harrold, Michael Bohnen and Julia Claussen. Miss Kemp's Elsa could hardly be said to be epochal. True, she was beautiful enough to encourage any Knight to be her champion, and she sang the role trenchantly, with her traditional carrying power and zeal. But she was too dynamic, she lacked the original coolness and innocence of a true Elsa. In the first act, after the tournament, her headlong flinging of herself into Lohengrin's arms had certainly a lack of parthenic inhibition. Elsa must have taken up Freud.

Mr. Harrold was a Lohengrin for the ear but not for the eye, singing with almost Italianate warmth and lyric fervor, while Mr. Bohnen was a King Henry to rank with the best ever heard at this house. He sang magnificently, and acted every minute he was on the stage, singing or not. Miss Claussen's Ortrud has been heard here before, and this occasion showed no revision of her interpretation, either upward or downward.

Many bays and laurels ought to go to Mr. Bodanzky for sending his men though the score generally at a jubilant, virile pace, far removed from the dour and sodden reading too often given Wagnerian drama in the last few seasons. Apparently the influence of the Wagnerian visitors across town with their spirited readings of their material is beginning to be felt.



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