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German stage actor and opera singer (1872-1929)
- baritone
- Germany
- stage actor, opera singer
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2016-12-23 22:16:16
There arose such a clatter
[…] that the new company had worked hard to present 14 operas over its first nine weeks. He hoped that the underrehearsed, indifferently acted performances he had often seen would not become the norm. 1903: Parsifal received its first staging anywhere other than the Bayreuth Festspielhaus, to which Wagner had decreed it be exclusive. Risking the enmity of the composer’s widow, who always had plenty to spare, were Milka Ternina, Alois Burgstaller, Anton Van Rooy, Otto Goritz, Robert Blass, Marcel Journet and conductor Alfred Hertz. The Times‘s Richard Aldrich was enthusiastic to the point of hyperbole: “The artistic value of the Parsifal production was of the very highest. It was in many respects equal to anything done at Bayreuth and, in some, much superior. It was without doubt the most perfect production ever made on the American lyric stage. Those who wish to quarrel with the performance on aesthetic, moral or […]
2014-03-02 18:43:00
"Zauberin", Enchantress; 1905 Paul Eisler Piano
[…] with Le Prophète: Ô prêtres de Baal; and then Francisco Nuibo with Carmen’s La fleur que tu m’avais jetée; Emma Eames, Opera Singer and then Emma Eames sang the Jewel Song from Faust; and then Zilcher: Serenade; Fanchetti: J’y Pense; then the tremendous Hungarian Rhapsody No. 1 by Liszt; several selections from Olive Frenstad singing Grieg’s Peer Gynt: Sov du dyreste gutten min and Et syn and Med en primulaveris, and then Otto Goritz with Das Goldene Kreuz: Wie anders war es AND – DRUM ROLL PLEASE!- Eisler’s Die Zauberin; followed with Emma Eames singing from Gounoud, Gallia with the Metropolitan Opera Chorus and closing with Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture. Alfred Hertz, Conductor In the following year Eisler’s composition of “Zauberin” made another appearance at the Met as noted in the Metropolitan Archives as part of the FIRST GRAND SUNDAY NIGHT CONCERT on December 2, 1906 […]
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