Die Feen: Performance History
First performance: 29 June 1888,
Königlich Hof- und Nationaltheater, München
Cast:
- Der Feen König : Victorine Blank
- Ada : Lili Dressler
- Zemina : Pauline Sigler
- Farzana : Marie Sigler
- Arindal : Max Mikorey (also created role of 3rd Squire in Parsifal)
- Gunther : Heinrich Herrmann
- Morald : Rudolf Fuchs
- Gernot : Gustav Siehr
(also created role of Hagen in the Ring)
- Lora : Adrienne Weitz
- Drolla : Emilie Herzog
- Harald : Kaspar Bausewein
(also created roles of Veit Pogner in Die Meistersinger,
Fafner in Das Rheingold, and Hunding in Die Walküre)
- Ein Bote : Max Schlosser
(also created roles of David in Die Meistersinger and
Mime in Das Rheingold)
- conductor : Franz Fischer
- musical preparation : Richard Strauss
- director : Karl Brulliot
- designers : Anton Broschi & Hermann Burghart
- costumes : Joseph Flüggen
(The role of Ada was sung by Pauline de Ahna, later Frau Richard Strauss,
at the 1895 revival.)
First performance in:
- Czech Republic: 8 Feb 1893, Prague
- Switzerland: 1914, Zurich
- United Kingdom: 1969, Midland Music Makers Grand Opera Society, Aston
University, Birmingham
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