[Met Performance] CID:89100



Lohengrin
Metropolitan Opera House, Sat, January 24, 1925




Lohengrin (340)
Richard Wagner | Richard Wagner
Lohengrin
Curt Taucher

Elsa
Maria Müller

Ortrud
Karin Branzell

Telramund
Friedrich Schorr

King Heinrich
Gustav Schützendorf

Herald
Carl Schlegel

Page
Mary Bonetti

Page
Louise Hunter

Page
Laura Robertson

Page
Charlotte Ryan


Conductor
Artur Bodanzky







Review 1:

Review of W. J. Henderson in the Sun

Miss Müller Sings Elsa

The sweetmeats of opera were liberally distributed at the Metropolitan on Saturday when "Lucia" was sing in the afternoon and "Lohengrin" in the evening. Mme. Galli-Curci, whose voice continued to show signs of fatigue, delivered many passages at a pitch considerably at variance with that of the orchestra and, on the whole, presented a colorless and apathetic picture on Donizetti's heroine. The honors of the afternoon were won by Beniamino Gigli, whose Edgardo had beauty of voice and skill in song. Mr. de Luca was the Enrico.

In Wagner's music drama Miss Maria Müller, soprano, made her second appearance with the company, singing Elsa. This young woman is a pleasing addition to the company. Her voice is not a great one, but it has beauty and freshness. She acted and sang Elsa with feeling and intelligence. It is gratifying to find a young singer with so much stage instinct. Her action is almost always well conceived and discreetly executed. At any rate it has been so in the two important parts she has had and, naturally, one expects that it will be so in others. Her Elsa was one of the most sympathetic we have had in recent years.

Of the others in the cast the foremost was Friedrich Schorr, whose Telramund was admirable. Mr. Taucher as Lohengrin, Mme. Branzell as Ortrud and Mr. Schützendorf as the King were others engaged in the performance which, as a whole, was characterized by much untunefulness, ragged and false singing and coarse orchestral playing. From curious misunderstandings between the conductor and the prima donna the inference might be drawn that she had not rehearsed her role. But doubtless she had and was suffering from nervousness.



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