[Met Tour] CID:355141



Tannhäuser
Amphion Academy, Brooklyn, New York, Sat, May 18, 1889




Tannhäuser (47)
Richard Wagner | Richard Wagner
Tannhäuser
Paul Kalisch

Elisabeth
Sophie Traubmann

Wolfram
Alois Grienauer [Last performance]

Venus
Louise Meisslinger

Hermann
Karl Mühe [Last performance]

Walther
Albert Mittelhauser

Heinrich
Wilhelm Sedlmayer

Biterolf
Ludwig Mödlinger [Last performance]

Reinmar
Jean Doré

Shepherd
Félicie Kaschowska


Conductor
Anton Seidl





No programs have been located for this performance and the newspaper account below only mentions Kalisch, Greinauer, Traubmann and Seidl. The cast listed above performed Tannhauser three times on tour in the preceding weeks.

Review 1:

Review in the Brooklyn Eagle:

End of the German Opera

The Metropolitan Opera Company selected "Tannhäuser" for the last of its series of performances in this city. Next to "Lohengrin" this is perhaps the most popular of Wagner's works, as least so far as widespread familiarity with parts of the music is concerned. The overture has often had a place on Philharmonic programs, and when last played by the Brooklyn Society was received, though no novelty, with overwhelming applause. The fine march and chorus are heard with much satisfaction by people who could not be induced to listen to a Nibelungen drama. The "Evening Star" is by no means unknown to "miscellaneous concert" bills. The opera invites selection for occasional uses, because it was written before Wagner said farewell to formal and rounded melody. "Tannhäuser" has always received careful and brilliant treatment from Mr. Seidl and his associates.

The performance last night was not perfect. There was a frequent inclination to depart from the keys, and the chorus was sometimes vague and ragged. The success of the hour was fairly won by Fraulein Traubmann, who made an attractive Elizabeth and sang well: by Herr Kalisch, a spirited Tannhäuser, and by Herr Grienauer an earnest and careful Wolfram. The orchestra played well, and the overture evoked a small tempest of approval. The "Paris Version" was on the bill, but not on the stage.



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