[Met Performance] CID:19850
New production
Das Rheingold {21}
Ring Cycle [11] Uncut. Metropolitan Opera House: 01/12/1899.


Metropolitan Opera House
January 12, 1899
New production


DAS RHEINGOLD {21}
Der Ring des Nibelungen: Cycle [11] Uncut
Wagner-Wagner

Wotan...................Anton Van Rooy
Fricka..................Marie Brema
Alberich................David Bispham
Loge....................Ernest Van Dyck
Erda....................Ernestine Schumann-Heink
Fasolt..................Adolph Mühlmann
Fafner..................Lempriere Pringle
Freia...................Marie Engle
Froh....................Andreas Dippel
Donner..................Herman Devries
Mime....................Hans Meffert
Woglinde................Olga Pevny
Wellgunde...............Louise Meisslinger
Flosshilde..............Ernestine Schumann-Heink

Conductor...............Franz Schalk

Director................Pierre Baudu

Das Rheingold was performed without intermission.
Das Rheingold received four performances this season.

[This performance inaugurated the first uncut Ring Cycle in the Western Hemisphere.]


Photographs of Ernest Van Dyck as Loge and David Bispham as Alberich by Aimé Dupont.
Photograph of Ernestine Schumann-Heink as Erda.


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