[Met Performance] CID:152490



Der Rosenkavalier
Metropolitan Opera House, Tue, January 10, 1950




Der Rosenkavalier (132)
Richard Strauss | Hugo von Hofmannsthal
Octavian
Jarmila Novotna

Princess von Werdenberg (Marschallin)
Eleanor Steber

Baron Ochs
Emanuel List

Sophie
Nadine Conner

Faninal
Hugh Thompson

Annina
Hertha Glaz

Valzacchi
Alessio De Paolis

Italian Singer
Kurt Baum

Marianne
Thelma Votipka

Mahomet
Peggy Smithers

Princess' Major-domo
Emery Darcy

Orphan
Paula Lenchner

Orphan
Maxine Stellman

Orphan
Thelma Altman

Milliner
Lois Hunt

Animal Vendor
Leslie Chabay

Hairdresser
Matthew Vittucci

Notary
Lawrence Davidson

Leopold
Ludwig Burgstaller

Faninal's Major-domo
Paul Franke

Police Commissioner
Lorenzo Alvary


Conductor
Max Rudolf







Review 1:

Review of Cecil Smith in Musical America:

Max Rudolf conducted the opera for the first time at the Metropolitan, and demonstrated, as he has in all his previous assignments, a firm technical mastery of the problems of the score, an exceptionally effective sense of pacing, and a warm sympathy for lyric passages.

Jarmila Novotna joined the cast as Octavian, singing with unusually fresh and attractive tone, and impersonating the impetuous boy in most convincing fashion. Of the others new to this year's cast, Nadine Conner sang prettily as Sophie; Kurt Baum delivered the Italian Tenor's aria with glorious ease and resonance; and Alessio de Paolis made Valzacchi a wonderfully sharp-edged, nasty little intrigant. Except for Lawrence Davidson, who appeared in the tiny part of the Notary for the first time at the Metropolitan, the rest of the roles were in the care of artists who had sung them in earlier representations.



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