GRAND OPERA IN LONDON.
WAGNER IN THE ORIGINAL. A. and- N.Z. LONDON. May 6. An audience as brilliant and numerous as in olden days assembled at Covent Garden Theatre for the opening of the German opera season. Wagner's " Rheingold " was performed in German for the first time since 1914.
Critics comment on the strangeness cf the sensation of listening again to the correct, slow, German tempo, and witnessing again all the organised gestures of Wagnerian drama. They agree, however, that the performance was most noteworthy. One critic goes so far as to say that there must have been a vocal as well as a political revolution in Germany, for the standard is higher than ever. Bruno Walter superbly conducted a British orchestra numbering 104 instrumentalists. The . cast included German and Austrian singers, and also Helen Jaffray, a protege of Dame Nellie Melba, who is described in the Daily Chronicle as 1 a sweet-voiced Ereia.,
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18703, 8 May 1924, Page 9
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