[Met Performance] CID:104360



Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
Metropolitan Opera House, Fri, February 7, 1930 Matinee





Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (186)
Richard Wagner | Richard Wagner
Hans Sachs
Friedrich Schorr

Eva
Maria Müller

Walther von Stolzing
Rudolf Laubenthal

Magdalene
Marion Telva

David
George Meader

Beckmesser
Gustav Schützendorf

Pogner
Léon Rothier

Kothner
Arnold Gabor

Vogelgesang
Max Bloch

Nachtigall
Louis D'Angelo

Ortel
Paolo Ananian

Zorn
Marek Windheim

Moser
Max Altglass

Eisslinger
Giordano Paltrinieri

Foltz
James Wolfe

Schwarz
William Gustafson


Conductor
Artur Bodanzky







Review 1:

Review of Oscar Thompson in Musical America

Beginning the Wagner Cycle

Maria Muller returned to the Metropolitan for the [first] opera of the special Wagner cycle, "Die Meistersinger" on Feb. 7. She sang Eva prettily, though her upper tones were not always in their best estate. Friedrich Schorr, if also in something less than his finest vocal fettle, renewed the admiration in which his Hans Sachs has been held since it was first disclosed in New York. Marion Telva and George Meader as Magdalene and David met the requirements of their roles, and Leon Rothier did what he could to be a German Pogner. Exaggeration of the farcical implications of the character again marred Gustav Schützendorff's Beckmesser, and the Kothner of Arnold Gabor was as unsatisfactory as this same singer's Night Watchman was creditable. All the faults attributable to German tenors were inescapable in the singing of Rudolf Laubenthal as Walther. Mr. Bodanzky's ensemble was not one notable for smoothness or surety.



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