[Met Performance] CID:155140



Der Fliegende Holländer
Metropolitan Opera House, Wed, November 22, 1950




Der Fliegende Holländer (48)
Richard Wagner | Richard Wagner
Dutchman
Paul Schöffler

Senta
Margaret Harshaw

Erik
Set Svanholm

Daland
Sven Nilsson

Mary
Hertha Glaz

Steersman
Thomas Hayward


Conductor
Fritz Reiner







Review 1:

Review of James Hinton Jr. in Musical America

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Miss Harshaw had until this performance appeared as a mezzo-soprano, and had sung such roles as Amneris, Azucena, Erda, and Waltraute-as well as Mary in earlier performances of this opera-at the Metropolitan. Toward the close of last season, while continuing her mezzo-soprano career at the opera house, she began to make outlying appearances singing Wagnerian soprano excerpts with symphony orchestras. This, however, was her first appearance as a soprano in New York.

Other singers have changed their classifications, with varying degrees of success, but few have had as good a vocal prognosis as Miss Harshaw for their new career. Her middle voice has always been full-bodied enough to make her singing of mezzo-soprano music effective, but the production of her upper voice has seemed very much like that of a soprano-clear and firm, without much carrying up of chest resonance in the interest of dramatic force.



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