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Götterdämmerung
Ring Cycle [65] Uncut
Metropolitan Opera House, Fri, March 3, 1939 Matinee
Götterdämmerung (136)
Richard Wagner | Richard Wagner
- Brünnhilde
- Kirsten Flagstad
- Siegfried
- Lauritz Melchior
- Gunther
- Julius Huehn
- Gutrune
- Irene Jessner
- Hagen
- Emanuel List
- Waltraute
- Kerstin Thorborg
- Alberich
- Adolf Vogel
- First Norn/Flosshilde
- Doris Doe
- Second Norn
- Lucielle Browning
- Third Norn
- Dorothee Manski
- Woglinde
- Thelma Votipka
- Wellgunde
- Irra Petina
- Vassal
- Max Altglass
- Vassal
- Arnold Gabor
- Conductor
- Artur Bodanzky
Ring Cycle [65] Uncut
Review 1:
Review of Jerome D. Bohm in the Herald Tribune
Finale of Uncut "Ring" Is Heard at Metropolitan
Mme. Flagstad and Melchior Sing 'Götterdämmerung'
The annual presentation of Wagner's "Ring" cycle in unabbreviated form was brought to a close with "Götterdämmerung" at the Metropolitan Opera House yesterday afternoon. The cast was a familiar one, with Kirsten Flagstad as Brünnhilde, Lauritz Melchior as Siegfried, Emanuel List as Hagen, Julius Huehn as Gunther, Adolf Vogel as Alberich, Irene Jessner as Gutrune, Thelma Votipka, Doris Doe and Irra Petina as the trio of Rhine-Maidens and Miss Doe, Lucielle Browning and Dorothee Manski as the Norns. Artur Bodanzky conducted.
The performance was an enthralling one, with Mme. Flagstad rising to exceptional heights, even for her, from both the vocal and dramatic aspects. In fact, all the principals were in admirable voice. Mme. Thorborg has not given so completely satisfying an interpretation of any other part this season as she did of Waltraute. The remaining delineations are so well known that detailed discussion of them is not necessary now. Mr. Bodanzky was very much in the vein and his conception tarried on a consistently exalted plane. His orchestra, barring the apparently inevitable occasional troubles in the brass choir, played well. The huge audience listened with the greatest absorption and applauded and cheered tumultuously at the close of the music-drama.
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- Artur Bodanzky [Conductor]
- Kirsten Flagstad [Brünnhilde]
- Lauritz Melchior [Siegfried]
- Julius Huehn [Gunther]
- Irene Jessner [Gutrune]
- Emanuel List [Hagen]
- Kerstin Thorborg [Waltraute]
- Adolf Vogel [Alberich]
- Doris Doe [First Norn/Flosshilde]
- Lucielle Browning [Second Norn]
- Dorothee Manski [Third Norn]
- Thelma Votipka [Woglinde]
- Irra Petina [Wellgunde]
- Max Altglass [Vassal]
- Arnold Gabor [Vassal]