[Met Performance] CID:146970



Das Rheingold
Ring Cycle [78] Uncut
Metropolitan Opera House, Fri, February 6, 1948




Das Rheingold (94)
Richard Wagner | Richard Wagner
Wotan
Joel Berglund

Fricka
Kerstin Thorborg

Alberich
Gerhard Pechner

Loge
Max Lorenz

Erda
Blanche Thebom

Fasolt
Jerome Hines

Fafner
Mihály Székely

Freia
Polyna Stoska

Froh
Emery Darcy

Donner
Kenneth Schon

Mime
John Garris

Woglinde
Inge Manski

Wellgunde
Martha Lipton

Flosshilde
Margaret Harshaw


Conductor
Fritz Stiedry


Ring Cycle [78] Uncut








Review 1:

Review signed R. in Musical America

The season's second performance of Wagner's "Rheingold," and the first in the evening subscription series of the "Ring," was given Feb. 6. Fritz Stiedry was again the conductor. His well paced and nobly conceived interpretation of the score brought out a myriad of details of coloring and dramatic emphasis without becoming fussy. The cast was the same as at the first performance with Joel Berglund as Wotan, Kenneth Schon as Donner, Emery Darcy as Froh, Max Lorenz as Loge, Gerhard Pechner as Alberich, John Garris as Mime, Jerome Hines as Fasolt, Mihaly Szekely as Fafner, Kerstin Thorborg as Fricka, Polyna Stoska as Freia, Blanche Thebom as Erda, Inge Mauski as Woglinde, Martha Lipton as Wellgunde and Margaret Harshaw as Flosshilde. A new departure was the raising of the curtain before the playing of the prelude. This improvement upon Wagner's instructions (which has been done before at the Metropolitan) should be abandoned. The imaginative power of Wagner's vast E flat prelude is enough in itself without giving the audience pictures to look at while it is played.



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