Programme . ed forthe first time at the Court Opera House, Dresden, January 2, cast was as follows: Senta, Mme. Schroeder-Devrient; the Dutch-man, Michael Wachter; Daland, Karl Risse; Erik, Reinhold; Mary,Mrs. Wachter; the steersman, Bielezizky. Wagner conducted. The first performance in America was in Italian, II Vascello Fan-tasma, at Philadelphia, November 8, 1876, by Mme. PappenheimsCompany. The first performance in Boston was in English at the Globe Theatre,March 14, 1877: Senta, Clara Louise Kellogg; Eric, Joseph Maas;Daland, George A. Conly; the steersman, C. H. Turner; Mary, M
Programme . ed forthe first time at the Court Opera House, Dresden, January 2, cast was as follows: Senta, Mme. Schroeder-Devrient; the Dutch-man, Michael Wachter; Daland, Karl Risse; Erik, Reinhold; Mary,Mrs. Wachter; the steersman, Bielezizky. Wagner conducted. The first performance in America was in Italian, II Vascello Fan-tasma, at Philadelphia, November 8, 1876, by Mme. PappenheimsCompany. The first performance in Boston was in English at the Globe Theatre,March 14, 1877: Senta, Clara Louise Kellogg; Eric, Joseph Maas;Daland, George A. Conly; the steersman, C. H. Turner; Mary, MarieLancaster; Vanderdecken, the Dutchman, William Carleton. It was undoubtedly due to the dramatic genius of Mme. WilhelmineSchroeder-Devrient (1804-60) that a poor performance was turned JUST ACROSS THE STREET Back Bays Busiest Drug Store Everything that is fore-most in drug store merchan-dise at prices that meetthe lowest competition. Copies of History of SymphonyOrchestra on sale at our newsstand, $ 480 Boylston StreetBoston Block of Brunswick Hotel MILLINERY SALE Many of her Models have been placed in her$ Department $ 803 the first night into an apparent triumph. It is said that in the partof Senta she surpassed herself in originality; but Wagner wrote toFischer in 1852 that this performance was a bad one. When I recallwhat an extremely clumsy and wooden setting of The Flying Dutch-man the imaginative Dresden machinist Hanel gave on his magnificentstage, I am seized even now with an after-attack of rage. and Risses genial and energetic efforts are also faithfullystored up in my memory. Wagner wished Senta to be portrayed as an altogether robustNorthern maid, thoroughly naive in her apparent sentimentality. He wrote: Only in the heart of an entirely naive girl surroundedby the idiosyncrasies of Northern nature could impressions such asthose of the ballad of the Flying Dutchman and the picture of thepallid seaman call forth so wondrous strong a
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