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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