Word: erda
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...artists will play the following parts: Brunnhilde, Mme. Gadski Erda, Mme. Schumann-Heink Waldvogel, Mme. Alma Gluck Mime, Mr. Albert Reiss Der Wanderer, Mr. Clarence Whitehill Alberich, Mr. Otto Goritz Fafner, Mr. Basil Ruysdael Siegfried, Mr. Johannes Sembach Conductor, Mr. Alfred Hertz...
...third act Wotan tells Erda, the goddess of earth that he is contented that man shall supersede the gods. As Erda sinks into the earth, Siegfried enters and inquires the way to Brunnhilde's rock. Wotan lays his spear across the way, but Siegfried shatters it, and advances to the flames, which envelop the stage. Finally they clear and discover Siegfried on the rock. He has never seen a woman, and thinks Brunnhilde is a beautiful warrior. He loosens the helmet, sees for the first time the long tresses of a woman, and is seized with fear. But he stoops...
...Schumann-Heink, whose health has been sufficiently restored at her farm in California, where she is now staying, to take part in the performance, will be the Erda. Her only appearance this season in Boston will be in "Siegfried," her only other engagement in this country prior to June fourth will be at the Saenger-fest in Brooklyn, N. Y. Mme. Gadski, the Brunnhilde, has never sung so well as she is singing this year at the Metropolitan. Mme. Alma Gluck is engaged to sing the music of the bird who speaks to Siegfried, because the fresh quality...