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The Standard Operas (12th edition) - Their Plots, Their Music, and Their Composers by George P. (George Putnam) Upton
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general equipment, has not its equal in the world; an array of artists
the best that Europe could produce; an orchestra almost literally
composed of virtuosi. The audience which gathered at these
performances--composed of princes, illustrious men in every department
of science and culture, and prominent musicians from all parts of the
world--was one of which any composer might have been proud, while the
representation itself marked an epoch in musical history, and
promulgated a new system of laws destined to affect operatic
composition ever after.

The casts of the various portions of the trilogy upon this memorable
occasion were as follows:

DAS RHEINGOLD. (PRELUDE.)

WOTAN | (Herr BETZ.
DONNER | (Herr GURA.
| Gods
FROH | (Herr UNGER.
LOGE | (Herr VOGL.

FASOLT | (Herr EILERS.
| Giants
FAFNER | (Herr VON REICHENBERG.

ALBERICH | (Herr HILL.
| Nibelungs
MIME | (Herr SCHLOSSER.

FRICKA | (Frau VON GRÜN-SADLER.
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