[Met Performance] CID:122710



Lohengrin
Metropolitan Opera House, Wed, January 26, 1938




Lohengrin (420)
Richard Wagner | Richard Wagner
Lohengrin
Lauritz Melchior

Elsa
Kirsten Flagstad

Ortrud
Karin Branzell

Telramund
Julius Huehn

King Heinrich
Ludwig Hofmann

Herald
George Cehanovsky


Conductor
Maurice Abravanel







Review 1:

Review of Francis D. Perkins in the Herald Tribune

Season's 3rd "Lohengrin" Is Given at Metropolitan

Karin Branzell Sings Ortrud in Only Cast Change

Wagner's "Lohengrin" had its third performance of the season at the Metropolitan Opera House last night with the cast of two weeks before, except for Karin Branzell as Ortrud. The noted Swedish contralto's appearance could be regarded as marking her season's debut here, although she had had a brief unheralded hearing last Friday, when she had sung the role of one of Brünnhilde's sisters in "Die Walküre" at short notice.

Mme. Branzell's impersonation of the nefarious Ortrud was, as in past seasons, intelligent and dramatic, and her voice had its wonted power, sounding forth the curse early in the second act impressively, although there were some incompletely focused tones along with others of her normally laudable quality. Lauritz Melchior again sang Lohengrin, Kirsten Flagstad's Elsa was as usual, laudable from both the vocal and dramatic point of view. Julius Huehn, in good voice as Telramund; Ludwig Hofmann, as the King, and George Cehanovsky, as the herald, completed the cast under Maurice de Abravanel's direction.



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