Meta Seinemeyer: Performance Chronology
Note: this is very much a work in progress. The following is a list of all of Seinemeyer�s performances that I know of, and it is not nearly complete; more performances will be added to the chronology as soon as I find more details.
The Deutsche Oper Berlin has had several different names over the years: the Charlottenburger Oper, Deutsches Opernhaus, St�dtische Oper, etc. To avoid confusion, I will refer to it as the Deutsche Oper throughout.
One source says that Seinemeyer made her debut in Hamburg in 1914 and sang in Wiesbaden in 1916, but so far I have found nothing else to confirm it. Seinemeyer was still a student at the conservatory in those years. The standard work on the Hamburg Opera, Joachim E. Wenzel�s Geschichte der Hamburger Oper 1678-1978, makes no mention of Seinemeyer.
1916
May 12. Theater am Nollendorfplatz, Berlin. Concert with other students of Nicolaus Rothm�hl at the Sternsches Konservatorium in Berlin. The concert consisted of part of the first act of Weber's Euryanthe, the first act of Die Walk�re, the first half of the second act of Lohengrin, and the second act of Der fliegende Holl�nder. Seinemeyer sang Euryanthe with Elly Heitmann as Eglantine. In Die Walk�re, Ruth Wolfreim sang Sieglinde, Walter Evertz (sp?) sang Siegmund, and Adolf Boffin (sp?) sang Hunding. He also sang Daland in Der fliegende Holl�nder. Erwin Rahl (sp?) sang Telramund and the Dutchman. In Lohengrin, Mary Barry sang Elsa and Margarete Bergau sang Ortrud. In Der fliegende Holl�nder, Elsa Jacobs sang Senta and Gerrit Bisser (sp?) sang Erik. Walter Schartner conducted the Euryanthe scene and Karl Schr�der conducted the Wagner excerpts.
1918
Jan. 24. Bl�thnersaal, Berlin. Concert with Hertha Stolzenberg, Robert Philipp, Madelaine Lieban, Julius Lieban, Eduard Kandl. Adolf Gelbtrunk (piano).
Mar. 21. Berlin. Concert. 2. Winterkonzert Berliner Liedertafel. Seinemeyer sang songs by Schubert and Strauss.
Jul. 1. Deutsche Oper, Berlin. Die Sch�ne Helena (Helena); Frida Wolf (Orestes); Margarethe Bach (Bacchis); Elisabeth Voelkel (Pylades); Margarethe Kr�ger (Leanena); Catharina Breuer (Parthenis); Rudolf Hofbauer/Franz Reisinger (Agamemnon); Eduard Kandl (Calchas); Harry Steier (Menelaus); Bernhard B�tel (Paris); Hans Thomaschek (Euthycles); Emil Nitsch (Ajax I); Edwin Heyer (Ajax II); Peter Breuer (Philocomus). Conductor: Ignatz Waghalter. Director: Felix Lagenpusch. Seinemeyer's operatic debut. She sang 16 performances between July 1 and July 16; afterwards, Hertha Stolzenberg took over the role. But, according to Berliner Tageblatt, Stolzenberg sang the performanace on July 11. There were performances every day in July until the 27th; also Aug. 1, 2, 3, 7, 23, 29; Sept. 4, 9, 25; Oct. 3. I am not sure whether Seinemeyer sang any of the performances in August, September, or October.
Jul. 9. Deutsche Oper, Berlin. Die Sch�ne Helena (Helena). Same cast as July 1 except: Carl Gentner (Paris); Rudolf Hofbauer (Agamemnon); Editha Fleischer (Orestes); Hans G. Hey (Calchas); Jacques Bilk (Achilles); Susanna Werber (Bacchis).
Aug. 5. Deutsche Oper, Berlin. Die Fledermaus (Rosalinde); Adelheid Pinkert (Orlofsky); Mizzi Fink (Adele); Harry Steier; Jacques Urlus; Edwin Heyer (Falke); Emil Nitsch (Alfred); Richard R�bsam (Dr. Blind); Hans G. Hey (Frosch). Conductor: Ignatz Waghalter.
Aug. 6. Deutsche Oper, Berlin. Die Fledermaus (Rosalinde). Same cast as Aug. 5.
Aug. 8. Deutsche Oper, Berlin. Hoffmanns Erzählungen (Antonia); Adelheid Pinkert; Lulu Kaesser-Laubenthal; Nelly Merz; Susanne Werber; Lotte Stein; Emma Vilmar-Hansen; Henriette Gottlieb; Rudolf Laubenthal; Bernhard Botel; Franz Hohnau; Rudolf Hofbauer; Harry Steier; Hermann Wucherpfennig. Conductor: Eduard M�rike: Also Aug. 9, 10 1918, summer season through Oct. 6. Seinemeyer did not sing every performance; she shared the role with Emmy Zimmermann. I know that Zimmermann sang the performance on Aug. 9.
Aug. 13. Deutsche Oper, Berlin. Die Fledermaus (Rosalinde). Same cast as Aug. 5.
Aug. 14. Deutsche Oper, Berlin. Die Fledermaus (Rosalinde). Same cast as Aug. 5.
Aug. 20. Deutsche Oper, Berlin. Die Fledermaus (Rosalinde). Same cast as Aug. 5.
Aug. 21. Deutsche Oper, Berlin. Die Fledermaus (Rosalinde). Same cast as Aug. 5.
Aug. 27. Deutsche Oper, Berlin. Die Fledermaus (Rosalinde). Same cast as Aug. 5.
Sept. 6. Deutsche Oper, Berlin. Die Fledermaus (Rosalinde). Same cast as Aug. 5 except: Bernhard B�tel (Eisenstein); Jacques Bilk (Frank); Grete Margot (Ida); Hans Thomaschek (Iwan). Director: Hans Kaufmann.
Sept. 30. Deutsche Oper, Berlin. Der eiserne Heiland (Annina); Franz Reisinger (Reutterer); Emma Seebold (Frau Kümmerlich); Wally von Roemer (Liesl); Elfriede Dorp (Walburga); Margarethe Bach (Ursula); Elisabeth Voelkel (Annemarie); Holger Börgesen (Pfarrer); Jacques Bilk (Klaus); Paul Hansen (Ridicolo); Richard Rübsam (Kleinthaler); Emil Nitsch (Zopf); Otto Oeser (Kümmerlich). Conductor: Rudolf Krasselt. Director: Georg Hartmann. The first performance of this opera was on Sept. 21 with Mafalda Salvatini as Annina and Julius vom Scheidt as Reutterer.
Oct. 25. Deutsche Oper, Berlin. Das Gl�ckchen des Eremiten [Les Dragons de Villars] (Georgette); Mizzi Fink (Rose); Julius vom Scheidt (Belamy); Harry Steier (Thibaut); Karl Gentner (Sylvain); Hermann Wucherpfennig (Prediger); Julius Roether (Leutnant); Eduard Kandl (Dragoner). Conductor: Rudolf Krasselt. Director: Hans Kaufmann. Other performances Oct. 27, 30, 31; Nov. 4, 6, 15, 21; Dec. 7, 17; and in 1919: Jan. 6, 24, 30; Feb. 3; Mar. 8; Apr. 7; Sept. 2; Oct. 26. I am not certain whether Seinemeyer appeared in every performance.
Nov. 11. Bl�thnersaal, Berlin. Concert of arias, Lieder, and duets with Bernhard Bötel (tenor). Adolf Gelbtrunk (piano).
1919
Possible performances of Das Gl�ckchen des Eremiten (see above for dates); other operas at the Deutsche Oper, Berlin.
Jan. 21. Deutsche Oper, Berlin. Der Freisch�tz (Agathe); Julius Roether (Ottokar); Ernst Lehmann (Kuno); Elfriede Dorp (�nnchen); Eduard Kandl (Casper); Paul Hansen (Max); Hans Thomaschek (Samiel); Robert Blass (Hermit); Gustav Werner (Kilian); Susanne Werber, Agnes Hermes, Anna Dockal (Bridesmaids); Otto Oeser, Hans Thalbach, Ewald Beckers (Hunters). Conductor: Rudolf Krasselt. Director: Felix Lagenpusch.
Jan. 24. Deutsche Oper, Berlin. Das Gl�ckchen des Eremiten (Georgette). Same cast as Oct. 25, 1918, except: Otto Roett (Dragoner-Leutnant); Heinz Kawe (Dragoner). Conductor: Hans Zander.
Jan. 28. Deutsche Oper, Berlin. Tiefland (Antonia); Julius Roether (Sebastiano); H. Wucherpfennig (Tommaso); Eduard Kandl (Moruccio); Mafalda Salvatini (Marta); Editha Fleischer (Pepa); Margarethe Bach (Rosalia); Elfriede Dorp (Nuri); Paul Hansen (Pedro); Gustav Werner (Nando); Otto Roett (Pfarrer). Conductor: Rudolf Krasselt. Director: Georg Hartmann.
Sept. 7. Deutsche Oper, Berlin. Tannh�user (Venus); Emmy Zimmermann (Elisabeth). Seinemeyer shared the role of Venus with Henriette Gottlieb during the 1919-20 season.
Oct. 20. Staatsoper, Berlin. Hoffmanns Erz�hlungen (Giulietta).
Nov. 7. Deutsche Oper, Berlin. Tannh�user (Venus); Emmy Zimmermann (Elisabeth); Ottfried Hagen; Julius vom Scheidt; Eduard Kandl; Hermann Wucherpfennig. Conductor: Eduard M�rike.
Nov. 8. Artiphon studio, [Berlin?]. Recording session: "Ich seh� die Mutter dort" (Carmen, with Johannes Scheurich), "Nein, nein Turiddu" (Cavalleria Rusticana, with Johannes Scheurich), "Wer uns getraut" (Der Zigeunerbaron, with Gustav Werner). Conductor unknown.
Dec. 12. Landestheater, Rudolfstadt. Concert. Seinemeyer sang the recitative and aria ("Dove sono") of the Countess and the recitative and aria ("Deh vieni") of Susanna from Le Nozze di Figaro and Agathe's scene and aria ("Wie nahte mir der Schlummer") from Der Freisch�tz. [?] Hartung was the accompanist. Also on the program were Weber's overture to Oberon, Schubert's Unfinished Symphony, and Beethoven's Symphony No. 5. Conductor: Walter L�sche.
Dec. 22. Deutsche Oper, Berlin. Parsifal (Flower Maiden); Julius Roether (Amfortas); H. Wucherpfennig (Titurel); Ernst Lehmann (Gurnemanz); Karl Gentner (Parsifal); Franz Reisinger (Klingsor); Martha Leffler-Burckard (Kundry); Emil Nitsch, Hans Thomaschek (Knights); Milda Goldberg-Thiele, Elisabeth Voelkel, Gustav Werner, Edwin Heyer (Squires); Wally von Roemer, Milda Goldberg-Thiele, Lotte Stein, Editha Fleischer, Louise Marck-L�ders (Flower Maidens); Paula Weber (Alto solo). Conductor: Eduard M�rike. Director: Georg Hartmann.
1920
Jan. 24. Deutsche Oper, Berlin. Undine (Berthalda); Johannes Scheurich (Ritter Hugo von Ringstetten); Julius vom Scheidt (K�hleborn); Otto Oeser (Tobias); Elisabeth Voelkel (Marthe); Elsa d'Heureuse (Undine); Ernst Lehmann (Vater Heilmann); Gustav Werner (Veit); Eduard Kandl (Hans); Hans Thalbach (Hofmarschall). Conductor: Hans Leschke. Director: Georg Hartmann.
Jun. 13. Deutsche Oper, Berlin. Tannh�user (Venus); Maria Jeritza (Elisabeth); Paul Hansen (Tannh�user); Julius vom Scheidt (Wolfram). Conductor: Eduard M�rike.
Nov. 8. Deutsche Oper, Berlin. Das Rheingold (Wellgunde); Emmy Zimmermann (Fricka); Elsa d�Heureuse (Freia); Emma Vilmar-Hansen (Erda); Editha Fleischer (Woglinde); Alice Mertens (Flosshilde); Julius vom Scheidt (Wotan); Ernst Lehmann (Fasolt); Adolph Sch�pflin (Fafner); Julius Roether (Donner); Johannes Scheurich (Froh); Karl Gentner (Loge); Eduard Kandl (Alberich); Harry Steier (Mime). Conductor: Eduard M�ricke. Director: Felix Lagenpusch. Other performances: Nov. 15, 30; and in 1921: Feb. 5; Mar. 15; June 21, 27. I am not certain whether Seinemeyer appeared in every performance.
1921
Jan. 17. Staatsoper, Berlin. Die Fledermaus (Rosalinde).
Mar. 15. Deutsche Oper, Berlin. Das Rheingold (Wellgunde). Same cast as Nov. 8, 1920.
May 21. Deutsche Oper, Berlin. Der Zigeunerbaron (Saffi); Jacques Bilk (Peter Homonay); Otto Oeser (Conte Carnero); Bernhard B�tel (Sandor Barinkay); Eduard Kandl (K�lm�n Zeup�n); Frieda Wolf (Arsena); Emma Seebold (Mirabella); Emil Nitsch (Ottokar); Louise Marck-L�ders (Czipra); Ewald Beckers (Pall); Willy Schrader (J�sci); Karl Roeber (Jansci); Friedrich Kraft (Ferko); Hans Thalbach (Mih�il); Rosa Shopp (Seppl); Willi Haupt (Miksa); Jise M�ller (Zigeunerknabe); Franz Silberstorff (Istvan). Conductor: Hans Zander. Director: Felix Lagenpusch.
Jun. 6 or 11. Deutsche Oper, Berlin. Tannh�user (Elisabeth). Seinemeyer's first appearance as Elisabeth.
Jun. 17. Deutsche Oper, Berlin. G�tterd�mmerung (Wellgunde); Melanie Kurt (Br�nnhilde); Emmy Zimmermann (Gutrune, Third Norn); Emma Vilmar-Hansen (Waltraute, First Norn); Hertha Stolzenberg (Woglinde); Louise Marck-L�ders (Flosshilde, Second Norn); Paul Papsdorf (Siegfried); Rudolf Hofbauer (Gunther); Adolph Sch�pflin (Hagen); Eduard Kandl (Alberich). Conductor: Eduard M�rike. Director: Alexander d�Arnals/Alice Reu�-Belce. Also Jun. 27; I am not certain whether Seinemeyer appeared in that performance.
Jul. 8. Deutsche Oper, Berlin. Der Troubadour [Il Trovatore] (Leonora); Emma Vilmar-Hansen (Azucena); Bernhard B�tal (sp?) (Manrico); Holger B�rgesen (sp?) (Count); Hans Thomaschek (Fernando). Conductor: Hans Thierfolder (sp?). Seinemeyer's first appearance in the role of Leonora.
Aug. 20. Deutsche Oper, Berlin. Lohengrin (Elsa); Henriette Gottlieb (Ortrud); Karl Jorn; Julius Rother; Ernst Lehmann.
Aug. 28. Deutsche Oper, Berlin. Der Troubadour [Il Trovatore] (Leonora); Robert Hutt (Manrico); Carla Raslag-Sarten; Jacques Bilk.
Sept. Philharmonic, Berlin. Fausts Verdammung [La Damnation de Faust] (Marguerite); Anton Rohmann (Faust); Martin Abendroth (Mephistopheles); Eduard Kandl (Brander). Conductor: Ernst Zander. Concert performance with the Berliner Volkschor. Reviewed in Berliner Tageblatt, Sept. 17, 1921.
Oct. 22. Deutsche Oper, Berlin. Faust (Marguerite); Rudolf Laubenthal (Faust); Michael Bohnen (Mephistopheles); Mizzi Fink; Jacques Bilk. Conductor: Ignatz Waghalter.
Nov. 6. Deutsche Oper, Berlin. Der Troubadour [Il Trovatore] (Leonora); Louise Marck-L�ders (Azucena); Johannes Scheurich (Manrico); Arnold Gábor (Count); Hermann Wucherpfennig (Fernando); Elisabeth Voelkel (Ines); Edwin Heyer (Ruiz); Otto Oeser (ein alter Zigeuner); Otto Roett (ein Bote). Conductor: Eduard M�rike.
[Seinemeyer sang her first Senta in Der fliegende Holl�nder during the 1921-22 season, with Friedrich Plaschke as the Dutchman. She did not sing the first performance of the season, on Oct. 21; Mafalda Salvatini sang Senta in that performance. Other performances of Der fliegende Holl�nder during the season were: Oct. 23, 28, 30; Nov. 3, 7, 13, 22, 24, 27, 29; Dec. 7, 10; Jan. 8, 12, 15, 18, 21, 25, Feb. 2, 12, 15, Mar. 11, 20, Apr. 24, May 5, 14, Jun. 17, 23.]]
[Charles Jahant mentions a performance in Braunschweig in the 1921-22 season.]
1922
Mar. 3. Deutsche Oper, Berlin. Hoffmanns Erz�hlungen (Giulietta); Johannes Scheurich (Hoffmann); Rudolf Hofbauer (Four Villains); Ludmilla Dostal (Niklaus); Emil Nitsch (Nathanael); Edwin Heyer (Hermann); Erich Matthiessen (Lutter); Harry Steier (Andreas/Cochenille/Pitichinaccio/Franz); Otto Oeser (Spalanzani); Gertrud Schubert (Olympia); Wilhelm Spering (Schlemihl); Hans Thomaschek (Krespel); Lulu Kaesser-Laubenthal (Antonia); Henriette Gottlieb (Voice of Antonia's Mother); Elise Bastisch (Stella). Conductor: Hans Thierfelder. Director: Felix Lagenpusch.
Apr. 7. Deutsche Oper, Berlin. Der Evangelimann (Martha); Emma Vilmar-Hansen (Magdalene); Rudolf Hofbauer (Johannes); Paul Papsdorf (Matthias); Adolph Sch�pflin; Harry Steier; Edwin Heyer; Johannes Scheurich. Conductor: Hans Zander. Director: Felix Lagenpusch. Other performances: Apr. 12, 20, 25; May 3, 13, 16; Jun. 9; Aug. 15. I am not certain whether Seinemeyer appeared in every performance.
Seinemeyer�s performances during the 1922-23 season, before the U.S. tour, all at the Deutsche Oper, Berlin, included:
Die Meistersinger (Eva; role shared with Maria Schneider-Plaut); Jose Riavez (Walther); Fritz Feinhals/Robert vom Scheidt (Sachs); Gustav Werner (David). Performances on Aug. 28, Sept. 18, Nov. 9; Jan. 6, 9. I am not certain which of these performances Seinemeyer sang.
Aida (Aida; role shared with Mafalda Salvatini and Eleanor Sawyer; Salvatini sang in the first performance on Nov. 4); Emma Vilmar-Hansen/Carla Raslag-Sarte/Ruth Jost-Arden (Amneris); Rudolf Laubenthal/Peter Jonsson/Pedro Lapuente (Radames); Julius vom Scheidt/Julius Roether (Amonasro); Alexander Kipnis/Ernst Lehmann (Ramfis); Adolf Schoepflin (King of Egypt). Conductor: Ignatz Waghalter. Performances on Nov. 5, 12, 14, 16, 18, 19, 27, 29, Dec. 3, 5, 15, 17, 27; Jan. 4. I am not certain which of these performances Seinemeyer sang.
1923
[Jan. 27. Seinemeyer and the other members of the German Opera Company arrive in New York aboard the S. S. President Roosevelt and leave the next day for Baltimore.]
Jan. 31. Lyric Theater, Baltimore. Die Meistersinger (Eva); Friedrich Schorr (Sachs); Adolf Lussmann (Walther); Alexander Kipnis (Pogner); Heinz Bollmann (Vogelgesang); Desider Zador (Beckmesser); Benno Ziegler (Kothner); Johannes Scheurich (Zorn); Peter Hegar (Foltz); Paul Schwarz (David); Jessyka Koettrik (Magdalene); Rudolf Helfer (Night Watchman). Conductor: Leo Blech.
Feb. 3. Lyric Theater, Baltimore. Tannh�user (Elisabeth); Adolf Lussmann (Tannh�user); Friedrich Schorr (Wolfram); Marie Lorentz-Hoellischer (Venus); Alexander Kipnis (Herrmann); Johannes Scheurich (Walther). Conductor: Eduard M�rike according to the Baltimore Sun; Leo Blech according to the Baltimore American.
[Feb. 4. Zion Lutheran Church, Baltimore. Concert with the German Opera Company. The Baltimore Sun says that the whole company performed at this concert, so I assumed Seinemeyer sang as well. But the Baltimore American lists the singers who performed, and does not include Seinemeyer.]
Feb. 6. Metropolitan Opera House, Philadelphia. Lohengrin (Elsa); Adolf Lussmann (Lohengrin); Elsa Alsen (Ortrud); Friedrich Plaschke (Telramund); Alexander Kipnis (Heinrich); Benno Ziegler (Herald); Friedel Schwarz, Hede Mex, Elfriede Thon, Emma Bassth (Pages). Conductor: Eduard M�rike. This performance was broadcast on the station WIP in Philadelphia.
Feb. 9. Metropolitan Opera House, Philadelphia. Tannh�user (Elisabeth); Adolf Lussmann (Tannh�user); Friedrich Schorr (Wolfram); Elsa Alsen (Venus); Alexander Kipnis (Hermann); Heinz Bollmann (Walther); Paul Schwarz (Heinrich); Desider Zador (Biterolf); Peter Hegar (Reinmar); Editha Fleischer (Shepherd). Conductor: Leo Blech. This performance was broadcast on the station WIP in Philadelphia.
Feb. 12. Manhattan Opera House, New York. Die Meistersinger (Eva); Friedrich Plaschke (Sachs); Robert Hutt (Walther); Alexander Kipnis (Pogner); Heinz Bollmann (Vogelgesang); Desider Zador (Beckmesser); Paul Schwarz (David); Benno Ziegler (Kothner); Johannes Scheurich (Zorn); Peter Hegar (Foltz); Erik Schubert (Schwarz); Jessyka Koettrik (Magdalene); Rudolf Helfer (Night Watchman). Conductor: Leo Blech.
Feb. 13. Manhattan Opera House, New York. Tannh�user (Elisabeth); Adolf Lussmann (Tannh�user); Friedrich Schorr (Wolfram); Elsa Alsen (Venus); Alexander Kipnis (Hermann); Heinz Bollmann (Walther); Paul Schwarz (Heinrich); Desider Zador (Biterolf); Peter Hegar (Reinmar); Editha Fleischer (Shepherd); Friedel Schwarz; Hede Mex; Elfriede Thon; Emma Bassth (Pages). Conductor: Leo Blech.
[Feb. 14. Seinemeyer is announced for a performance of Lohengrin, but Else Wuehler sings the role of Elsa.]
Feb. 15. Manhattan Opera House, New York. Das Rheingold (Wellgunde); Friedrich Plaschke (Wotan); Benno Ziegler (Donner); Heinz Bollmann (Froh); Paul Schwarz (Loge); Gustav Sch�tzendorf (Alberich); Edwin Steier (Mime); Alexander Kipnis (Fasolt); Ernst Lehmann (Fafner); Emma Bassth (Fricka); Hede Mex (Freia); Ottilie Metzger (Erda); Editha Fleischer (Woglinde); Jessyka Koettrik (Flosshilde). Conductor: Eduard M�rike.
[Feb. 19. Seinemeyer is announced for a performance of Die Meistersinger, but Marcella Roeseler sings the role of Eva.]
Feb. 21. Manhattan Opera House, New York. Tannh�user (Elisabeth). Same cast as Feb. 13, except: Benno Ziegler (Wolfram); Marie Lorentz-Hoellischer (Venus); Erik Schubert (Reinmar); Editha Fleischer (Shepherd); Lotte Baldamus (Page, instead of Elfriede Thon).
[Feb. 22. Seinemeyer is announced as Wellgunde in Das Rheingold, but Lotte Baldamus sings the role.]
Feb. 24. Manhattan Opera House, New York. Der fliegende Holl�nder (Senta); Friedrich Schorr (Dutchman); Jessyka Koettrik (Mary); Robert Hutt (Erik); Ernst Lehmann (Daland); Johannes Scheurich (Steersman). Conductor: Eugen Gottlieb.
Mar. 3. Manhattan Opera House, New York. Der fliegende Holl�nder (Senta); Friedrich Plaschke (Dutchman); Jessyka Koettrik (Mary); Adolph Lussmann (Erik?); Ernst Lehmann (Daland); Paul Schwarz (Steersman?).
Mar. 6. Manhattan Opera House, New York. Tannh�user (Elisabeth). Same cast as Feb. 13, except: Joseph Schwarz (Wolfram).
Mar. 7. Manhattan Opera House, New York. Der fliegende Holl�nder (Senta). Same cast as Feb. 24, except: Friedrich Plaschke (Dutchman); Heinz Bollmann (Erik); Johannes Scheurich (Steersman).
Mar. 10. Manhattan Opera House, New York. Tannh�user (Elisabeth); Adolf Lussmann (Tannh�user); Friedrich Schorr (Wolfram); Marie Lorentz-Hoellischer (Venus); Ernst Lehmann (Hermann); Heinz Bollmann (Walther); Paul Schwarz (Heinirch); Rudolph Hofbauer (Biterolf); Erik Schubert (Reinmar); Editha Fleischer (Shepherd); Friedel Schwarz; Hede Mex; Lotte Baldamus; Emma Bassth (Pages). Conductor: Leo Blech.
[Mar. 12. Seinemeyer is announced for a performance of Die Meistersinger, but Editha Fleischer sings the role of Eva.]
Mar. 15. Lexington Theatre, New York. Tannh�user (Elisabeth); Adolf Lussmann (Tannh�user); Friedrich Schorr (Wolfram); Erna Ohlsen (Venus); Ernst Lehmann (Hermann); Heinz Bollmann (Walther); Paul Schwarz (Heinrich); Desider Zador (Biterolf); Peter Hegar (Reinmar); Lotte Baldamus (Shepherd); Friedel Schwarz; Hede Mex; Elfriede Thon; Emma Bassth (Pages). Conductor: Ernst Knoch.
Mar. 21. Lexington Theatre, New York. Der Freisch�tz (Agathe); Robert Hutt (Max); Theodor Lattermann (Kaspar); Editha Fleischer (�nnchen); Benno Ziegler (Ottokar); Desider Zador (Kuno); Harry Steier (Kilian); Alexander Kipnis (Hermit); (?) Dobertin (Bridesmaid); Erna Koberowsky (Bridesmaid); Grete Roetz (Bridesmaid); Josef Braun (Samiel). Conductor: Eduard M�rike.
[Mar. 24. Seinemeyer is announced for a performance of Der Freisch�tz, but Marcella Roeseler sings the role of Agathe.]
Mar. 31. Lexington Theatre, New York. Farewell gala concert. Seinemeyer appeared as Elisabeth in Act II of Tannh�user with Heinrich Knote (Tannh�user), Benno Ziegler (Wolfram), Alexander Kipnis (Hermann), and Johannes Scheurich (Walther); Ernst Knoch conducted. Seinemeyer also appeared as Gerhilde in Act III of Die Walk�re, with Marcella Roeseler (Sieglinde), Marie Lorentz-Hoellischer (Br�nnhilde), and Theodor Lattermann (Wotan); Eduard M�rike conducted. The concert also included Act III of Die Meistersinger with Else Wuehler (Eva), Emma Bassth (Magdalena), Robert Hutt (Walther), Paul Schwarz (David), Alexander Kipnis (Pogner), and Friedrich Schorr (Sachs). Conductor: Eduard M�rike.
Apr. 3. Opera House, Boston. Tannh�user (Elisabeth); Heinrich Knote (Tannh�user); Benno Ziegler (Wolfram); Marie Lorentz-Hoellischer (Venus); Alexander Kipnis (Hermann); Johannes Scheurich (Walther); Paul Schwarz (Heinrich); Desider Zador (Biterolf); Erik Schubert (Reinmar); Editha Fleischer (Shepherd). Conductor: Ernst Knoch.
Apr. 4. Opera House, Boston. Das Rheingold (Wellgunde); Theodor Lattermann (Wotan); Paul Schwarz (Loge); Desider Zador (Alberich); Harry Steier (Mime); Benno Ziegler (Donner); Johannes Scheurich (Froh); Alexander Kipnis (Fasolt); Erik Schubert (Fafner); Emma Bassth (Fricka); Marcella Roeseler (Freia); Ottilie Metzger (Erda/Flosshilde); Editha Fleischer (Woglinde). Conductor: Eduard M�rike.
Apr. 6. Opera House, Boston. Der fliegende Holl�nder (Senta); Friedrich Schorr (Dutchman); Alexander Kipnis (Daland); Robert Hutt (Erik); Johannes Scheurich (Steersman); Emma Bassth (Mary). Conductor: Ernst Knoch.
Apr. 7. Opera House, Boston. Die Fledermaus (Rosalinde); Harry Steier (Eisenstein); Editha Fleischer (Adele); Emma Bassth (Orlofsky); Paul Schwarz (Alfred); Benno Ziegler (Falke); Josef Groetzinger (Dr. Blind); Desider Zador (Frank); Francesca and Berthe Braggiotti in a special dance number based on the Blue Danube Waltz in Act II. Conductor: Ernst Knoch.
Apr. 9. Opera House, Boston. Tannh�user (Elisabeth); Heinrich Knote (Tannh�user); Friedrich Schorr (Wolfram); Marie Lorentz-Hoellischer (Venus); Alexander Kipnis (Hermann); Erik Schubert (Biterolf); Josef Groetzinger (Reinmar); Lotte Appel (Shepherd). Conductor: Ernst Knoch.
Apr. 11. Opera House, Boston. Das Rheingold (Wellgunde); Friedrich Schorr (Wotan; a last-minute substitute? The program lists Theodor Lattermann); Benno Ziegler (Donner); Johannes Scheurich (Froh); Paul Schwarz (Loge); Desider Zador (Alberich); Harry Steier (Mime); Alexander Kipnis (Fasolt); Erik Schubert (Fafner); Emma Bassth (Fricka); Marcella Roeseler (Freia); Ottilie Metzger (Erda/Flosshilde); May Scheider (Woglinde). Conductor: Eduard M�rike.
Apr. 12. Opera House, Boston. Die Walk�re (Gerhilde); Heinrich Knote (Siegmund); Friedrich Schorr (Wotan); Else Wuehler (Sieglinde); Erik Schubert (Hunding); Elsa Alsen (Br�nnhilde); Ottilie Metzger (Fricka/Waltraute); May Scheider (Helmwige); Lotte Appel (Ortlinde); Dorothy Hoff (Grimgerde); Marcella Roeseler (Siegrune); Martha Lichterfeld (Rossweisse); Emma Bassth (Schwertleite). Conductor: Eduard M�rike.
Apr. 13. Opera House, Boston. Lohengrin (Elsa); Robert Hutt (Lohengrin); Marie Lorentz-Hoellischer (Ortrud; Ottilie Metzger's name is on the program; Lorentz-Hoellischer must have been a last-minute substitute); Theodor Lattermann (Telramund); Alexander Kipnis (Heinrich); Benno Ziegler (Herald); Traute Schuman, Grete Roetz, Elsa Thon, Lina Ruf (Pages). Conductor: Ernst Knoch.
Apr. 14. Opera House, Boston. G�tterd�mmerung (Wellgunde); Heinrich Knote (Siegfried); Marie Lorentz-Hoellischer (Br�nnhilde); Benno Ziegler (Gunther); Alexander Kipnis (Hagen); Else Wuehler (Gutrune); Ottilie Metzger (Waltraute/First Norn); Desider Zador (Alberich); May Scheider (Woglinde); Emma Bassth (Flosshilde/Second Norn); Marcella Roeseler (Third Norn). Conductor: Eduard M�rike.
Apr. 16. Lyric Theater, Baltimore. Das Rheingold (Wellgunde); Theodor Lattermann (Wotan); Benno Ziegler (Donner); Johannes Scheurich (Froh); Paul Schwarz (Loge); Desider Zador (Alberich); Harry Steier (Mime); Alexander Kipnis (Fasolt); Erik Schubert (Fafner); Emma Bassth (Fricka); Marcella Roeseler (Freia); Ottilie Metzger (Erda/Flosshilde); May Scheider (Woglinde). Conductor: Eduard M�rike.
Apr. 17. Lyric Theater, Baltimore. Die Walk�re (Gerhilde); Heinrich Knote (Siegmund); Friedrich Schorr (Wotan); Marcella Roeseler (Sieglinde); Erik Schubert (Hunding); Elsa Alsen (Br�nnhilde); Ottilie Metzger (Fricka); May Scheider; Else Wuehler; Martha Lichterfeld; Ottilie Metzger; Rosa Shopp; Dorothy Hoff; Emma Bassth (Valkyries). Conductor: Eduard M�rike.
Apr. 19. Lyric Theater, Baltimore. G�tterd�mmerung (Wellgunde); Heinrich Knote (Siegfried); Benno Ziegler (Gunther); Alexander Kipnis (Hagen); Elsa Alsen (Br�nnhilde); Else Wuehler (Gutrune); Ottilie Metzger (Waltraute/First Norn); Desider Zador (Alberich); May Scheider (Woglinde); Emma Bassth (Flosshilde/Second Norn); Marcella Roeseler (Third Norn). Conductor: Eduard M�rike. Director: Theodor Lattermann.
Apr. 20. Metropolitan Opera House, Philadelphia. Das Rheingold (Wellgunde); Friedrich Schorr (Wotan); Benno Ziegler (Donner); Johannes Scheurich (Froh); Paul Schwarz (Loge); Desider Zador (Alberich); Harry Steier (Mime); Alexander Kipnis (Fasolt); Erik Schubert (Fafner); Emma Bassth (Fricka); Marcella Roeseler (Freia); Ottilie Metzger (Erda/Flosshilde); May Scheider (Woglinde). Conductor: Eduard M�rike.
Apr. 21. Metropolitan Opera House, Philadelphia. Die Walk�re (Gerhilde); Heinrich Knote (Siegmund); Friedrich Schorr (Wotan); Marcella Roeseler (Sieglinde); Erik Schubert (Hunding); Marie Lorentz-Hoellischer (Br�nnhilde); Ottilie Metzger (Fricka); May Scheider (Helmwige); Else Wuehler (Ortlinde); Dorothy Hoff (Grimgerde); Rosa Shopp (Waltraute); Lotte Appel (Siegrune); Martha Lichterfeld (Rossweisse); Emma Bassth (Schwertleite). Conductor: Eduard M�rike.
Apr. 24. Metropolitan Opera House, Philadelphia. G�tterd�mmerung (Wellgunde); Heinrich Knote (Siegfried); Marie Lorentz-Hoellischer (Br�nnhilde); Benno Ziegler (Gunther); Alexander Kipnis (Hagen); Else Wuehler (Gutrune); Ottilie Metzger (Waltraute/First Norn); Desider Zador (Alberich); May Scheider (Woglinde); Emma Bassth (Flosshilde/Second Norn); Marcella Roeseler (Third Norn). Conductor: Eduard M�rike.
Apr. 26. Schenley Theater, Pittsburgh. Tannh�user (Elisabeth); Heinrich Knote (Tannh�user); Friedrich Schorr (Wolfram); Else Wuehler (Venus); Alexander Kipnis (Hermann). Conductor: Ernst Knoch.
Apr. 28 . Schenley Theater, Pittsburgh. Der fliegende H�llander (Senta); Theodor Lattermann (Dutchman); Alexander Kipnis (Daland); Robert Hutt (Erik); Johannes Scheurich (Steersman); Emma Bassth (Mary). Conductor: Ernst Knoch.
Apr. 30. Orchestra Hall, Detroit. Tannh�user (Elisabeth); Heinrich Knote (Tannh�user); Benno Ziegler (Wolfram); Marie Lorentz-Hoellischer (Venus); Alexander Kipnis (Hermann); Johannes Scheurich (Walther); Harry Steier (Heinrich); Desider Zador (Biterolf); Josef Groetzinger (Reinmar); Lotte Appel (Shepherd); Erna Koberowsky (First Page); Grete Roetz (Second Page); Else Thon (Third Page); Emma Bassth (Fourth Page). Conductor: Ernst Knoch.
May 6. Metropolitan Theatre, Cleveland. Tannh�user (Elisabeth); Heinrich Knote (Tannh�user); Benno Ziegler (Wolfram); Else Wuehler (Venus); Johannes Scheurich (Walther); Paul Schwarz (Heinrich); Desider Zador (Biterolf); Erik Schubert (Reinmar); Lotte Appel (Shepherd). Conductor: Eduard M�rike.
May 7. Majestic Theater, Buffalo. Die Meistersinger (Eva); Theodor Lattermann (Sachs); Robert Hutt (Walther); Alexander Kipnis (Pogner); Desider Zador (Beckmesser); Harry Steier (David); Emma Bassth (Magdalene). Conductor: Eduard M�rike.
May 9. Majestic Theater, Buffalo. Lohengrin (Elsa); Robert Hutt (Lohengrin); Marie Lorentz-Hoellischer (Ortrud); Alexander Kipnis (Heinrich); Theodor Lattermann (Telramund); Benno Ziegler (Herald). Conductor: Ernst Knoch.
Sept. 5. Deutsche Oper, Berlin. Ein Maskenball [Un Ballo in Maschera] (Amelia); Henriette Gottlieb/Bella Fortner-Halberth (Ulrica); Mizzi Fink (Oscar); Fritz Krauss (Riccardo); Willi Domgraf-Fassbaender (Renato). Conductor: Leo Kraus.
Sept. 22. Deutsche Oper, Berlin. Ein Maskenball [Un Ballo in Maschera] (Amelia). Same cast as Sept. 5.
Sept. 29. Deutsche Oper, Berlin. Ein Maskenball [Un Ballo in Maschera] (Amelia). Same cast as Sept. 5.
Nov. 15. Deutsche Oper, Berlin. Das Rheingold (probably as Wellgunde). Other cast members included Werner Engel and Margarethe Arndt-Ober. Conductor: Leo Blech.
Seinemeyer�s other performances during the 1923-24 season at the Deutsche Oper, Berlin, included:
Die Meistersinger (Eva; role shared with Frieda Meyer); Emma Bassth/Luise Marck-Lueders (Magdalena); Julius vom Scheidt/Wilhelm Rode/Friedrich Plaschke (Sachs); Fritz Krauss/Rudolf Laubenthal/Adolf Lussmann (Walther); Alexander Kipnis/Josef Gimpler (Pogner); Eduard Kandl/Rudolf Bandler/Georg Zottmayr (Beckmesser); Gustav Werner/Willi Turk (David); Edwin Heyer (Kothner). Conductors: Leo Blech, Felix Weingartner, Bruno Walter. Performances on Aug. 26, Sept. 14, Oct. 11, 21; Dec. 2, 15; Jan. 6, Feb. 7, 17; Mar. 11, 31; May 5, 18 (which Seinemeyer definitely sang; see under 1924 below); Jun. 9, 17. I am not certain which of the other performances Seinemeyer sang.
Aida (Aida; role shared with Vera Schwarz); Mme. Charles Cahier/Emmi Leisner/Eleanor Schlosshauer-Reynolds (Amneris); Peter Jonsson/Rudolf Laubenthal/Adolf Lussmann/Fritz Zohsel (Radames); Julius vom Scheidt/Georges Baklanoff/Friedrich Plaschke/Wilhelm Rode (Amonasro); Alexander Kipnis (Ramfis); Walter Eckard/Wilhelm Spering (King of Egypt). Condcutors: Leo Blech, Felix Weingartner, Bruno Walter. Performances on Sept. 9, 23; Oct. 3, 14; Nov. 18, Dec. 25, 30; Jan. 14, 26; Feb. 12, Mar. 1, 20, 27; Apr. 13, 21; May 4, 24 (Seinemeyer definitely sang both performances in May; see under 1924 below); Jun. 15, 24. I am not certain which of the other performances Seinemeyer sang.
La Boh�me (Mimi; role shared with Alice Marturell, Hertha Stolzenberg, and Hedwig von Debicka); Mizzi Fink (Musetta); Alfred Piccaver/Fritz Krauss/ Peter Raitcheff/Trajan Grosavescu (Rodolfo); Adolf Permann/Willi Domgraf-Fassbaender (Marcello); Eduard Kandl/Julius vom Scheidt (Colline); Edwin Heyer/Desider Zador (Schaunard). Conductor: Leo Blech. Performances on Sept. 10, 27; Oct. 10, 29; Dec. 4, 29; Jan. 25, Mar. 4, Apr. 5, May 7, 28; Jun. 12, 21. I am not certain which of these performances Seinemeyer sang.
Der Troubadour [Il Trovatore] (Leonora); Mme. Charles Cahier (Azucena). Performances on Sept. 15, 21; Oct. 15, Nov. 19, Dec. 28, Jan. 31, Feb.20, Mar. 13, Apr. 11, 26; May 1. I am not certain whether Seinemeyer sang all the performances.
Tosca (Tosca; role shared with Vera Schwarz and Emmy Bettendorf); Alfred Piccaver/Jaro Dworsky/Fritz Krauss/Peter Raitcheff (Cavaradossi); Georges Baklanoff/Robert Burg/Fritz Egenieff/Michael Bohnen (Scarpia). Conductors: Leo Blech, Paul Breisach. Performances on Sept. 12, 18; Oct. 5, 17, 28; Nov. 6, 26; Dec. 17; Jan. 16, Feb. 15, Mar. 6, 18; Apr. 6, 23; May 10, 16; Jun. 16, 27. I am not certain which of these performances Seinemeyer sang.
Tannh�user (Elisabeth); Henriette Gottlieb/Bella Fortner-Halberth (Venus); Richard Schubert/Adolf Lussmann (Tannh�user); Robert Burg/Willi Domgraf-Fassbaender (Wolfram); Emanuel List/Walter Eckard (Hermann). Conductor: Leo Blech. Performances on Aug. 31, Sept. 4, 16, 24; Oct. 7, 23; Nov. 30, Dec. 5, 23; Jan. 9, Feb. 2, 10, 21, 29; Mar. 22, 30; Apr. 14, 22; May 27, Jun. 22. I am not certain whether Seinemeyer sang all of these performances.
Faust (Marguerite; role shared with Hedwig von Debicka); Mizzi Fink/Ilse Wald (Siebel); Luise Marck-Luders (Marthe); Adolf Lussmann/Peter Raitcheff (Faust); Emanuel List/Michael Bohnen (Mephistopheles); Willi Domgraf-Fassbaender (Valentin); Edwin Heyer (Wagner). Conductor: probably Leo Blech. Performances on Dec. 1, 9; Feb. 1, 25; Apr. 30 (Seinemeyer definitely sang this performance; see under 1924 below), May 19, Jun. 19. I am not certain which of the other performances Seinemeyer sang.
1924
Jan. 12. Deutsche Oper, Berlin. Die Zauberfl�te (First Lady); Alice Marturell (Pamina); Elfriede Dorp (Papagena, Second Boy); H. Balder Siegert (Queen of the Night); Doris Ohliger (Second Lady); Louise Marck-L�ders (Third Lady); Ilse Wald (First Boy); Aenne Maucher (Third Boy); Jaro Dworsky (Tamino); Emanuel List (Sarastro); Edwin Heyer (Papageno); Julius vom Scheidt (Speaker); Emil Nitsch (Monastatos). Conductor: Leo Blech. Director: Georg Pauly. Other performances: Jan. 17, 19, 24, 27, 30; Feb. 3, 9, 14,18, 23; Mar. 2, 7, 16, 19, 29; Apr. 1, 20; May 12, 22, 29; June 20, 29. I am not certain whether Seinemeyer appeared in every performance.
Feb. 11. Deutsche Oper, Berlin. Der fliegende Holl�nder (Senta); Wilhelm Rode (Dutchman); Leo Sch�tzendorf (Daland); Peter Jonsson (Erik); Louise Marck-L�ders (Mary); Gustav Werner (Steersman). Conductor: Wilhelm Franz Reuss. Director: Felix Lagenpusch.
Feb. 13. Deutsche Oper, Berlin. Lohengrin (Elsa).
Feb. 16. Deutsche Oper, Berlin. Tausend und eine Nacht (Leila); Helene Pola (Wally); Louise Marck-L�ders (Zaraide); Adolf Lussmann (F�rst/Fischer); Bernhard B�ttel (Eddin); Edwin Heyer (Gro�vesir); Emil Nitsch (Ormuz). Conductor: Adolf Guttmann. Director: Martin Zickel. Other performances: Feb. 26; Mar. 3, 8, 14, 23. I am not certain whether Seinemeyer appeared in every performance.
Mar. 1. Deutsche Oper, Berlin. Aida (Aida).
Apr. 8. Deutsche Oper, Berlin. Carmen (Micaela); Rosette Anday (Carmen); Tino Pattiera (Don Jos�); Leo Sch�tzendorf (Escamillo); Edwin Heyer (Zuniga); Willi Domgraf-Fassbaender (Moral�s); Elfriede Dorp (Frasquita); Doris Ohliger (Merc�d�s); Emil Nitsch (Dancairo); Gustav Werner (Remendado); Fritz Kraft (Lillas Pastia). Conductor: Wilhelm Freund. Director: Felix Lagenpusch.
Apr. 28. Deutsche Oper, Berlin. Carmen (Micaela); Irma Tervani (Carmen); Tino Pattiera (Don Jos�); Georges Baklanoff (Escamillo); Edwin Heyer (Zuniga); Elfriede Dorp (Frasquita); Doris Ohliger (Merc�d�s). Conductor: Wilhelm Freund.
Apr. 30. Deutsche Oper, Berlin. Faust (Marguerite); Tino Pattiera (Faust); Georges Baklanoff (Mephistopheles); Edwin Heyer (Wagner); Elfriede Dorp. Conductor: Hans Zander.
May 2. Deutsche Oper, Berlin. Ein Maskenball [Un Ballo in Maschera] (Amelia). Same cast as Sept. 5, 1923.
May 4. Deutsche Oper, Berlin. Aida (Aida); Trajan Grosavescu (Radames); Mme. Charles Cahier (Amneris); Wilhelm Rode (Amonasro); Walter Eckard; Wilhelm Spering (King of Egypt). Conductor: Albert Reuss.
May 6. Deutsche Oper, Berlin. Hoffmanns Erz�hlungen (Antonia); Adolf Lussmann (Hoffmann); Joseph Schwarz; Emma Bassth; Emil Nitsch; (?) Wald; Edwin Heyer; Wilhelm Spering; Else J�lich de Vogt; Henriette Gottlieb (voice of Antonia's mother); Gustav Werner. Conductor: Albert Reuss.
May 9. Deutsche Oper, Berlin. Ein Maskenball [Un Ballo in Maschera] (Amelia). Same cast as Sept. 5, 1923.
May 18. Deutsche Oper, Berlin. Die Meistersinger (Eva); Friedrich Plaschke (Sachs); Fritz Krauss (Walther); Georg Zottmayr (Beckmesser); Edwin Heyer (Kothner); Gustav Werner (David); Emma Bassth (Magdalene). Conductor: Felix Weingartner.
May 23. Deutsche Oper, Berlin. Don Juans letztes Abenteuer (Cornelia); Frieda Meyer (Lukrezia); Emma Bassth (Giulio); Robert Burg (Don Juan); Jaro Dworsky (Antonio); Desider Zador (Spinelli); Peter Jonsson (Francesco); Wilhelm Spering (Montoni); Edwin Heyer (Claudio); Emil Nitsch (Lorenzo); Willi Domgraf-Fassbaender (Filippo); Otto Oeser (Marco); Gustav Werner (Livio); Hans Thomaschek (Piero). Conductor: Wilhelm Freund. Director: Georg Pauly. Other performances: May 25; Jun. 1, 10. I am not certain whether Seinemeyer appeared in every performance.
May 24. Deutsche Oper, Berlin. Aida (Aida); Rudolf Laubenthal (Radames); Emmi Leisner (Amneris); Friedrich Plaschke (Amonasro). Conductor: Felix Weingartner.
May 26. Deutsche Oper, Berlin. Ein Maskenball [Un Ballo in Maschera] (Amelia). Same cast as Sept. 5, 1923.
Jun. 19. Deutsche Oper, Berlin. Margarete [Faust] (Marguerite); Peter Raitscheff (Faust); Michael Bohnen (Mephistopheles); Edwin Heyer (Valentin); Willi Domgraf-Fassbaender (Brander); Ilse Wald (Siebel); Louise Marck-L�ders (Marthe). Conductor: Hans Zander. Director: Felix Lagenpusch.
Jun. 20. Deutsche Oper, Berlin. Die Zauberfl�te (First Lady). Same cast as Jan. 12 except: Josef Gimpler (Sarastro); Marie von Ernst (Queen of the Night); Hedwig Fleischer (Second Boy); Paul Struensee (First Priest); Wilhelm Spering (Second Priest); Felix Berghorn (First Armored Man); Max Stolle (Second Armored Man); Willi Domgraf-Fassbaender, Otto Oeser, Karl Roeber (Slaves). Conductor: Bruno Walter.
Nov. 4. Deutsche Oper, Berlin. Aida (Aida); Adolf Lussmann (Radames); Emma Vilmar-Hansen (Amneris); Wilhelm Rode (Amonasro); Walter Eckard (Ramfis); Wilhelm Spering (King of Egypt); Henriette Gottlieb (Priestess); Emil Nitsch (Messenger). Conductor: Bruno Walter.
Nov. 14. Deutsche Oper, Berlin. Parsifal (Flower Maiden); Bella Fortner-Halbaerth (Kundry); Emma Vilmar-Hansen (Alto Soloist, Flower Maiden); Inge Holmgren (Flower Maiden); Adolf Lussmann (Parsifal); Wilhelm Rode (Amfortas); Emanuel List (Gurnemanz); Desider Zador (Klingsor); Walter Eckard (Titurel). Conductor: Paul Breisach. Director: Luise Reu�-Belce. Other performances: Nov. 15, 17, 18, 19 (with Lauritz Melchior as Parsifal), 22, 23, 25. I am not certain whether Seinemeyer appeared in every performance; the later ones might have been too close to her performance in Dresden. It is possible, but not certain, that she appeared in the Nov. 19 performance with Melchior.
Nov. 29. Staatsoper, Dresden. Margarethe [Faust] (Marguerite); Adolf Lussmann (Faust); Adolf Schoepflin (Mephistopheles). Seinemeyer's first performance in Dresden. She was a last-minute replacement for Elisa St�nzner; in fact, St�nzner's name appears on the program; it is crossed out and Seinemeyer's name is handwritten next to it.
1925
Jan. 13. Staatsoper, Dresden. Der Freisch�tz (Agathe); Fritz Vogelstrom (Max); Ilse Schulz (�nnchen). Conductor: Hermann Kutzschbach.
Jan. 17. Staatsoper, Dresden. Die Meistersinger (Eva); Bj�rn Tal�n (Walther); Friedrich Plaschke (Sachs); Willy Bader (Pogner); [?] Kuppinger (David); Helene Jung (Magdalene); Ludwig Ermold (Beckmesser); Rudolf Schmalnauer (Fritz Kothner); Heinrich Tessmer (Vogelgesang); Eugen Guth (Hans Schwarz). Conductor: Fritz Busch.
Jan. 21. Staatsoper, Dresden. Die Zauberfl�te (Pamina); Willy Bader; [?] Kuppinger (Tamino); Robert Burg; Ludwig Eybisch; Rudolf Schmalnauer; Margarete Heyne-Franke; Ludwig Ermold (Papageno); Hanns Lange; Milly Stephan; Charlotte Viereck, Adelma von Tinty, Elfriede Haberkorn (Three Ladies). Conductor: Hermann Kutzschbach.
Jan. 22. Staatsoper, Dresden. Die Fledermaus (Rosalinde); Ludwig Eybisch (Eisenstein); Robert B�ssel (Frank); Irma Tervani (Orlofsky); Max Hirzel (Alfred); Rudolf Schmalnauer (Falke); Heinrich Tessmer (Dr. Blind); Angela Kolniak (Adele); Ludwig Ermold (Frosch). Conductor: Kurt Striegler.
Jan. 28. Staatsoper, Dresden. Lohengrin (Elsa); Willy Bader; Max Hirzel (Lohengrin); Friedrich Plaschke; Eugenie Burkhardt (Ortrud); Rudolf Schmalnauer. Conductor: Kurt Striegler.
Jan. 31. Staatsoper, Dresden. Andrea Ch�nier (Maddalena); Tino Pattiera (Ch�nier); Friedrich Plaschke (G�rard); Helene Jung (Comtesse de Coigny); Adelma (Thelma?) von Tinty (Bersi); Willy Bader (Roucher); Ludwig Ermold (Matthieu); Elfriede Haberkorn (Madelon); Hanns Lange (Incroyable); Rudolf Schmalnauer (Fl�ville); Ludwig Eybisch (Abb�); Robert B�ssel (Schmidt); Wilhelm Moy (Major-domo); Heinrich Hermanns (Dumas); Julius Puttlitz; Paul Sch�ffler (Fouquier-Tinville); Rolf Schroeder (Filandro Farinelli). Conductor: Fritz Busch. Director: Georg Toller. This was the Dresden premiere of Andrea Chenier.
Feb. 3. Staatsoper, Dresden. Andrea Ch�nier (Maddalena); Tino Pattiera (Ch�nier); Friedrich Plaschke (G�rard); Helene Jung (Comtesse de Coigny); Adelma von Tinty (Bersi); Adolf Schoepflin (Roucher); Ludwig Ermold (Matthieu); Elfriede Haberkorn (Madelon); Hanns Lange (Incroyable); Rudolf Schmalnauer (Fl�ville); Ludwig Eybisch (Abb�); Robert B�ssel (Schmidt); Wilhelm Moy (Major-domo); Heinrich Hermanns (Dumas); Paul Sch�ffler (Fouquier-Tinville); Rolf Schroeder (Filandro Farinelli); August Seiter (Horatius Cocles); Johannes Pleissner (G�rard's father); Justus Hahn (Secretary of the Revolutionary Tribunal); Rudolf Hornuff (Robespierre); Karl Schumm (Gravier de Vergennes); Ottilie Rose (Laval von Montmorency); Charlotte Gedlich (Lucie Legray); Walter Ackermann (Ausrufer). Conductor: Fritz Busch. Director: Georg Toller.
Feb. 7. Staatsoper, Dresden. Andrea Ch�nier (Maddalena).
Feb. 10. Staatsoper, Dresden. Andrea Ch�nier (Maddalena). Same cast as Feb. 3.
Feb. 19. Staatsoper, Dresden. Andrea Ch�nier (Maddalena). Same cast as Feb. 3 except: Willy Bader (Roucher).
Feb. 22. Staatsoper, Dresden. La Boh�me (Mimi); Tino Pattiera (Rodolfo); Charlotte Wolf (Musetta); Rudolf Staegemann (Marcello); Ludwig Ermold (Schaunard); Willy Bader (Colline); Robert B�ssel (Bernard); Heinrich Tessmer. Conductor: Kurt Striegler.
Feb. 25. Staatsoper, Dresden. Andrea Ch�nier (Maddalena). Same cast as Feb. 3 except: Erna Fiebiger-Peister (Bersi).
Mar. 8. Staatsoper, Dresden. Andrea Ch�nier (Maddalena). Same cast as Feb. 25.
Mar. 14. Staatsoper, Dresden. Andrea Ch�nier (Maddalena). Same cast as Feb. 3, but with Kurt Striegler conducting.
Mar. 22. Staatsoper, Dresden. Aida (Aida); Bj�rn Tal�n (Radames); Irma Tervani (Amneris); Robert Burg (Amonasro); Adolf Schoepflin (Ramfis); Willy Bader (King of Egypt); Heinrich Tessmer (Messenger); Milly Stephan (Priestess). Conductor: Hermann Kutzschbach. Seinemeyer was substituting for Elisa St�nzner.
Mar. 29. Staatsoper, Dresden. La Boh�me (Mimi).
Apr. 6. Staatsoper, Dresden. Tosca (Tosca); Karl Jank-Hoffmann (Cavaradossi); Friedrich Plaschke (Scarpia); Ludwig Ermold (Sacristan).
Apr. 12. Staatsoper, Dresden. Parsifal (Flower Maiden).
Apr. 13. Staatsoper, Dresden. Andrea Ch�nier (Maddalena).
Apr. 18. Staatsoper, Dresden. Die Walk�re (Sieglinde); Fritz Vogelstrom (Siegmund); Eva Plaschke-von der Osten (Br�nnhilde); Friedrich Plaschke (Wotan); Lotte D�rwald (Fricka). Conductor: Hermann Kutzschbach. Director: Georg Toller.
Apr. 26. Staatsoper, Dresden. Otello (Desdemona); Tino Pattiera (Otello); Waldemar Staegemann (Iago).
Apr. 28. Staatsoper, Dresden. Die Zauberfl�te (Pamina).
Apr. 30. Staatsoper, Dresden. Der Freisch�tz (Agathe).
May 6. Staatsoper, Dresden. Lohengrin (Elsa); Karl Jank-Hoffmann (Lohengrin); Eugenie Burkhardt (Ortrud); Friedrich Plaschke; Adolf Schoepflin; Rudolf Schmalnauer. Conductor: Kurt Striegler.
May 10. Staatsoper, Dresden. La Boh�me (Mimi).
May 12. Staatsoper, Dresden. Otello (Desdemona).
May 16. Staatsoper, Dresden. Andrea Ch�nier (Maddalena). Conductor: Kurt Striegler.
May 19. Staatsoper, Dresden. Rehearsal of Doktor Faust. Seinemeyer injures her leg in an accident during the rehearsal.
May 20. Staatsoper, Dresden. Dress rehearsal of Doktor Faust.
May 21. Staatsoper, Dresden. Doktor Faust (Duchess of Parma); Robert Burg (Faust); Theo Strack (Mephistopheles); Willy Bader (Wagner); Josef Correck (Duke of Parma); Adolf Schoepflin (Master of Ceremonies); Rudolf Schmalnauer (The girl�s brother); Ludwig Eybisch (Lieutenant; Student from Wittenberg; Megaeros; Voice from on high); Ernst Meyerolbersleben (Student from Cracow; Student from Wittenberg; Voice from on high); Paul Sch�ffler (Student from Cracow; Student from Wittenberg; Asmodeus; Voice from on high); Wilhelm Moy (Student from Cracow; Law student); Robert B�ssel (Theologian; Levis); Heinrich Hermanns (Natural scientist; Gravis; Voice from on high); Heinrich Tessmer (Student from Wittenberg); Heinrich Kuppinger (Beelzebuth); Erna Berger (Voice from on high); Irmgard Quitzow (Voice from on high); Adelma von Tinty (Voice from on high); Elfriede Haberkorn (Voice from on high); Erich Ponto (Prologue speaker). Conductor: Fritz Busch. Director: Alfred Reucker. Designer: Karl Dannemann. This was the world premiere of Doktor Faust.
May 24. Staatsoper, Dresden. Doktor Faust (Duchess of Parma).
May 28. Staatsoper, Dresden. Doktor Faust (Duchess of Parma).
May 31. Staatsoper, Dresden. Aida (Aida); Tino Pattiera (Radames); Irma Tervani (Amneris); Robert Burg (Amonasro); Willy Bader (Ramfis); Robert B�ssel (King of Egypt). Conductor: Hermann Kutzschbach This was Dresden's 200th performance of Aida.
Jun. 1. Staatsoper, Dresden. Doktor Faust (Duchess of Parma).
Jun. 3. Staatsoper, Dresden. Der Freisch�tz (Agathe).
Jun. 5. Staatsoper, Dresden. Doktor Faust (Duchess of Parma).
Jun. 7. Staatsoper, Dresden. Lohengrin (Elsa); Curt Taucher (Lohengrin). Seinemeyer was substituting for Elisabeth Rethberg, who cancelled because of a cold.
Jun. 17. Staatsoper, Dresden. Die Zauberfl�te (Pamina); Richard Tauber (Tamino); Elisabeth Kluge (Papagena); Karl Wagner (Monastatos, substituting for Heinrich Tessmer); Erna Berger (one of the Three Boys).
Jun. 21. Staatsoper, Dresden. Der fliegende Holl�nder (Senta); Friedrich Plaschke (Dutchman); Curt Taucher (Erik); Adolf Schoepflin (Daland); [?] Kuppinger (Steersman). Conductor: Hermann Kutzschbach. This was Dresden's 400th performance of Der fliegende Holl�nder.
Jun. 22. Staatsoper, Dresden. La Boh�me (Mimi); Richard Tauber (Rodolfo).
Jun. 25. Staatsoper, Dresden. Der Zigeunerbaron (Saffi); Richard Tauber (Sandor Barinkay).
Jun. 27. Staatsoper, Dresden. Der Zigeunerbaron (Saffi); Richard Tauber (Sandor Barinkay).
Jun. 28. Staatsoper, Dresden. Tannh�user (Elisabeth); Curt Taucher (Tannh�user); Rudolf Bockelmann (Wolfram); Adolf Schoepflin (Landgraf Hermann); Charlotte Viereck-Kimpel (Venus). This was Dresden's 600th performance of Tannh�user.
[Jun. 30. Seinemeyer is scheduled to sing Aida, but she cancels because of illness and Fanny Elve from the Volksoper in Berlin sings the role.]
Jul. 4. Staatsoper, Dresden. Die Zauberfl�te (Pamina).
Jul. 5. Staatsoper, Dresden. Der fliegende Holl�nder (Senta).
Aug. 2. Waldoper, Zoppot. Tannh�user (Elisabeth); Frida Leider (Venus); Jacques Urlus (Tannh�user); Herbert Janssen (Wolfram); Otto Helgers. Conductor: Max von Schillings or Karl Tutein. Seinemeyer shared the role of Elisabeth with Gertrud Geyersbach. The performances on July 26, 28, and 30 were sung by Geyersbach (Elisabeth); Leider (Venus); Richard Schubert (Tannh�user); Friedrich Plaschke (Wolfram). One source says Margarete Arndt-Ober shared the role of Venus with Leider, but I do not know if she sang with Seinemeyer or Geyersbach.
Aug. 4. Waldoper, Zoppot. Tannh�user (Elisabeth). Same cast as Aug. 2.
Aug. 17. Staatsoper, Dresden. Der Freisch�tz (Agathe).
[According to an obituary in Dresdner Anzeiger, Seinemeyer's next performance in Dresden after her "official" debut as Agathe was Die Meistersinger with Bj�rn Tal�n as Walther.]
Aug. 25. Staatsoper, Dresden. La Boh�me (Mimi).
Aug. 27. Staatsoper, Dresden. Andrea Ch�nier (Maddalena).
Aug. 30. Staatsoper, Dresden. Amelia [Un Ballo in Maschera] (Amelia); Tino Pattiera (Riccardo); Robert Burg (Renato); Helene Jung (Ulrica); Grete Nikisch (Oscar); Ludwig Ermold (Silvano); Willy Bader (Samuel); Adolf Schoepflin (Tom); Hanns Lange (Judge); Ludwig Eybisch (Servant). Conductor: Fritz Busch. Director: Georg Toller.
Sept. 3. Staatsoper, Dresden. Amelia [Un Ballo in Maschera] (Amelia). Same cast as Aug. 30.
Sept. 5. Staatsoper, Dresden. Tosca (Tosca).
Sept. 9. Staatsoper, Dresden. Amelia [Un Ballo in Maschera] (Amelia).
[Sept. 11. Seinemeyer is scheduled to sing Senta in Der fliegende Holl�nder, but cancels because of illness, and Elisa St�nzner sings the role.]
Sept. 12. Staatsoper, Dresden. Sizilianische Bauernehe [Cavalleria Rusticana] (Santuzza). On a double bill with Der Bajazzo [Pagliacci]. Seinemeyer substitutes for Maria R�sler-Keuschnig, who is ill.
Sept. 16. Staatsoper, Dresden. Otello (Desdemona).
Sept. 17. Staatsoper, Dresden. Der Evangelimann (Martha); Fritz Vogelstrom (Matthias); Friedrich Plaschke (Johannes); Heinrich Tessmer (Zitterbart); Otto Siegmund (Hans); Ludwig Ermold.
Sept. 19. Staatsoper, Dresden. Andrea Ch�nier (Maddalena).
Sept. 22. Staatsoper, Dresden. Der Evangelimann (Martha); Julius Puttlitz (Friedrich Engel); Helene Jung (Magdalene); Friedrich Plaschke (Johannes); Fritz Vogelstrom (Matthias); Heinrich Tessmer (Xaver Zitterbart); Ludwig Ermold (Anton Schnappauf); Robert B�ssel (Aibler); Ida M�der (Aibler's wife); Mariane Gersfeld (Frau Huber); Otto Sigmund (Hans); Paula Seiring (Lumpensammlerin); Erna Frese (Young girl); August Seiter (Leiermann). Conductor: Kurt Striegler. Director: Georg Toller. This performance was a substitute for Fidelio, which was cancelled because Maria R�sler-Keuschnig and Grete Merrem-Nikisch were ill.
Sept. 24. Staatsoper, Dresden. Die Zauberfl�te (Pamina).
Sept. 25. Staatsoper, Dresden. Der Freisch�tz (Agathe).
Sept. 27. Staatsoper, Dresden. Die Meistersinger (Eva).
[Oct. 3. Seinemeyer is scheduled to sing the role of Martha in Der Evangelimann, but cancels because of illness. Elisa St�nzner sings the role in spite of a foot injury.]
Oct. 7. Staatsoper, Dresden. Andrea Ch�nier (Maddalena).
Oct. 9. Staatsoper, Dresden. Der Freisch�tz (Agathe).
Oct. 11. Staatsoper, Dresden. Aida (Aida).
Oct. 14. Staatsoper, Dresden. Margarethe [Faust] (Marguerite).
Oct. 15. Staatsoper, Dresden. Der Freisch�tz (Agathe).
Oct. 17. Staatsoper, Dresden. La Boh�me (Mimi).
Oct. 19. Staatsoper, Dresden. Otello (Desdemona).
Oct. 20. Staatsoper, Dresden. Die Fledermaus (Rosalinde).
[Oct. 26. Seinemeyer is scheduled to sing Tosca, but cancels because of illness, and Eva Plaschke von der Osten sings the role.]
Nov. 2. Staatsoper, Dresden. Der Troubadour [Il Trovatore] (Leonora).
Nov. 7. Staatsoper, Berlin. Der Zigeunerbaron (Saffi).
[Nov. 10. Seinemeyer is scheduled to sing the role of Agathe in Der Freisch�tz, but cancels because of illness. Elisa St�nzner, in spite of her own illness, sings the role.]
[Seinemeyer is listed on the programs as being ill from Nov. 12-27.]
Nov. 17. Parlophon studio, Berlin. Recording session: "Von Blut ger�tet war meine Schwelle" (Andrea Chenier), "Eines Tages seh�n wir" (Madama Butterfly), "Man nennt mich jetzt Mimi" (La Boh�me, unpublished), "Ha, welch� Gl�ck" (Faust, unpublished). Conductor: Frieder Weissmann.
[Nov. 28. Seinemeyer is scheduled to sing the role of Leonora in Der Troubadour [Il Trovatore], but cancels because of illness. Margarethe Heyne-Franke sings the role.]
[Seinemeyer is listed on the programs as being ill from Dec. 3-31.]
1926
[Seinemeyer is listed on the programs as being ill from Jan. 1-13.]
[Jan. 8. Seinemeyer is scheduled to sing the title role in Ariadne auf Naxos, but cancels because of illness, and Claire Born sings the role.]
Jan. 16. Staatsoper, Dresden. Andrea Ch�nier (Maddalena). Same cast as Feb. 3, 1925 except: Berta Obholzer (Bersi); Robert B�ssel (Matthieu). Conductor: Kurt Striegler.
Jan. 18. Staastoper, Dresden. La Boh�me (Mimi). Same cast as Feb. 22, 1925 except: Liesel von Schuch (Musetta); Friedrich Plaschke (Marcello); Hanns Lange (Alcindoro). Conductor: Hermann Kutzschbach.
[Jan. 22. Seinemeyer is scheduled to sing the title role in Ariadne auf Naxos, but cancels because of illness, and Emmy Bettendorf sings the role. Seinemeyer was never given another chance to sing this role.]
[Jan. 26. Seinemeyer and Elisa St�nzner are both ill, and Liane Martini from Leipzig sings the role of Senta in Der fliegende Holl�nder, for which St�nzner had orginally been scheduled.]
Jan. 30. Staatsoper, Dresden. Aida (Aida); Karl Jank-Hoffmann (Radames); Helene Jung (Amneris); Titus Aleariu (Amonasro); Willy Bader (Ramfis); Adolf Schoepflin (King of Egypt); Ernst Meyerolbersleben (Messenger); Charlotte Schrader (Priestess). Conductor: Hermann Kutzschbach.
Feb. 3. Staatsoper, Dresden. Der Freisch�tz (Agathe); Karl Jank-Hoffmann (Max); Grete Nikisch (�nnchen); Julius Puttlitz (Kaspar); Rudolf Schmalnauer (Ottokar); Ludwig Ermold (Kuno); Robert B�ssel (Samiel); Willy Bader (Hermit). Conductor: Kurt Striegler.
Feb. 8. Staatsoper, Dresden. Die Zauberfl�te (Pamina). Performance not listed in Dresdner Anzeiger; Carmen is listed instead.
Feb. 11. Parlophon studio, Berlin. Recording session: "Hier bin ich" (Forza del Destino), "Frieden, Frieden" (Forza del Destino), "Nur der Sch�nheit weiht� ich mein Leben" (Tosca). Conductor: Frieder Weissmann.
Feb. 12. Parlophon studio, Berlin. Recording session: "Noch hegt mich der geliebte Ort" (Forza del Destino), Tosca/Cavaradossi duet in German (Tosca, with Carl Martin Oehmann). Conductor: Frieder Weissmann.
Feb. 13. Staatsoper, Dresden. Der Freisch�tz (Agathe). Same cast as Feb. 3 except: Max Hirzel (Max); Adolf Schoepflin (Kaspar); Heinrich Tessmer (Kilian).
Feb. 24. Staatsoper, Dresden. Tosca (Tosca); Tino Pattiera (Cavaradossi); Robert Burg (Scarpia); Robert B�ssel (Angelotti); Ludwig Ermold (Sacristan); Hanns Lange (Spoletta); Paul Sch�ffler (Sciarrone); Julius Puttlitz (Jailer); Elfriede Haberkorn (Shepherd). Conductor: Kurt Striegler.
Mar. 1. Staatsoper, Dresden. Andrea Ch�nier (Maddalena). Same cast as Feb. 3, 1925 except: Berta Oberholzer (Bersi); Willy Bader (Roucher); Julius Puttlitz. Conductor: Kurt Striegler.
Mar. 2. Gewandhaus, Leipzig. Concert with Fritz Busch conducting. Seinemeyer sang "Pace, pace..." from Forza del Destino and three Strauss Lieder.
[Seinemeyer is listed on the programs as being ill from Mar. 6-16.]
[Mar. 11. Seinemeyer is scheduled to sing in the second winter concert of the Dresdner Lehrgesangsverein at the Gewerbehaus, conducted by Fritz Busch. On the program: An die Hoffnung by Volkmar Andraeae, Die wilde Jagd by Rudolf Buck (sp?); Tanzliedsuite (5 Ch�re) by Josef Haas; Harras, der k�hne Springer (world premiere) by Karl Pembauer. But this concert took place during a time when Seinemeyer is listed as being ill, so she might not have sung. I have not yet been able to find a review of the concert.
Mar. 20. Staatsoper, Dresden. La Forza del Destino [Die Macht des Schicksals] (Leonora); Tino Pattiera (Alvaro); Robert Burg (Carlo); Friedrich Plaschke (Padre Guardiano); Ludwig Ermold (Melitone); Grete Nikisch (Preziosilla); Heinrich Tessmer (Mastro Trabuco); Robert B�ssel (Alcade); Willy Bader (Marquis di Calatrava); Paul Sch�ffler (Surgeon); Elfriede Haberkorn (Curra); Emil Piehler (Laienbruder). Conductor: Fritz Busch. Director: Georg Toller. This was the Dresden premiere of the opera.
Mar. 28. Dresden. Beethoven, Symphony No. 9. Helene Jung, Curt Taucher, Friedrich Plaschke, Kapelle und Opernchor der Staatstheater, Dresdner Lehrergesangverein, Sinfoniechor. Conductor: Fritz Busch.
Mar. 30. Staatsoper, Dresden. La Forza del Destino [Die Macht des Schicksals] (Leonora).
Apr. 5. Staatsoper, Dresden. La Boh�me (Mimi).
Apr. 9. Parlophon studio, Berlin. Recording session: "C�cilie" (Strauss), "Sie sa� mit Leide auf �der Weide" (Otello), "Sie entfloh�, die Taube so minnig" (Hoffmanns Erz�hlungen). Conductor: Frieder Weissmann.
Apr. 12. Parlophon studio, Berlin. Recording session: "Wie nahte mir der Schlummer" (Der Freisch�tz), "Und ob die Wolke sie verh�llte" (Der Freischutz), "Ich sprach, da� ich furchtlos mich f�hle" (Carmen, unpublished), "Morgen" (Strauss). Conductor: Frieder Weissmann.
Apr. 13. Staatsoper, Dresden. La Boh�me (Mimi).
Apr. 18. Staatsoper, Dresden. Tosca (Tosca).
Apr. 25. Staatsoper, Dresden. Otello (Desdemona); Tino Pattiera (Otello); Robert Burg (Iago); Otto Sigmund (Cassio); Hanns Lange (Rodrigo); Willy Bader (Lodovico); Julius Puttlitz (Montano); Paul Schöffler (Herald); Elfriede Haberkorn (Emilia). Conductor: Fritz Busch. Director: Alois Mora. Seinemeyer sang in spite of illness.
Apr. 29. Staatsoper, Dresden. La Forza del Destino [Die Macht des Schicksals] (Leonora).
May 2. Staatsoper, Dresden. La Forza del Destino [Die Macht des Schicksals] (Leonora).
May 5. Staatsoper, Dresden. La Forza del Destino [Die Macht des Schicksals] (Leonora).
May 8. Staatsoper, Dresden. Andrea Ch�nier (Maddalena).
May 12. Staatsoper, Dresden. La Forza del Destino [Die Macht des Schicksals] (Leonora).
May 15. Staatsoper, Dresden. Andrea Ch�nier (Maddalena).
May 18. Staatsoper, Dresden. Il Trovatore [Der Troubadour] (Leonora).
May 24. Staatsoper, Dresden. La Forza del Destino [Die Macht des Schicksals] (Leonora).
May 30. Staatsoper, Dresden. Der Zigeunerbaron (Saffi).
Jun. 2. Staatsoper, Dresden. La Forza del Destino [Die Macht des Schicksals] (Leonora).
Jun. 6. Staatsoper, Dresden. Der Freisch�tz (Agathe).
Jun. 7. Staatsoper, Dresden. La Forza del Destino [Die Macht des Schicksals] (Leonora). Same cast as Mar. 20, except Angela Kolniak (Preziosilla). This was Seinemeyer's farewell performance before leaving for Buenos Aires.
Jul. 8. Teatro Col�n, Buenos Aires. Die Walk�re (Sieglinde); Elsa Gentner Fischer (Br�nnhilde); Friedrich Schorr (Wotan); Rudolf Ritter (Siegmund); Karin Branzell (Fricka); Alexander Kipnis (Hunding); Ana Kihlberg (Helmwige); Adelina Morelli (Gerhilde); Egle Paolantonio (Ortlinde); Giannina Cattaneo (Waltraute); Rosal�a Pangrazi (Siegrune); Cristina Salas Molina (Grimgerde); Franca Franchi (Schwertleite); Paula Weber (Rossweisse). Conductor: Fritz Reiner. Director: Ernst Lert.
Jul. 11. Salon "La Argentina", Buenos Aires. Concert with the Asociacion Wagneriana, commemorating the 100th anniversary of Carl Maria von Weber's death. Seinemeyer sang Agathe's aria from Der Freisch�tz and the duet with �nnchen from Act 2, with Nina Morgana. Fritz Reiner was the accompanist. There was also a lecture by musicologist Ernesto de la Guardia.
Jul. 12. Teatro Col�n, Buenos Aires. Die Walk�re (Sieglinde). Same cast as Jul. 8.
Jul. 15. Teatro Col�n, Buenos Aires. Der Freisch�tz (Agathe); Richard Schubert (Max); Friedrich Schorr (Kaspar); Nina Morgana (�nnchen); Gustav Sch�tzendorf (Ottokar); Antonio Nicolich (Kuno/Samiel); Arnold Gabor (Kilian); Alexander Kipnis (Hermit); Adelina Morelli; Regina Bank; Egle Paolantonio (Bridesmaids). Conductor: Fritz Reiner. Director: Ernst Lert.
Jul. 19. Teatro Col�n, Buenos Aires. Der Freisch�tz (Agathe). Same cast as Jul. 15, except Rudolf Ritter (Max). Conductor: Karl Riedel.
Jul. 20. Teatro Col�n, Buenos Aires. Die Walk�re (Sieglinde). Same cast as Jul. 8.
Jul. 30. Teatro Col�n, Buenos Aires. Tannh�user (Elisabeth); Rudolf Ritter (Tannh�user); Friedrich Schorr (Wolfram); Alexander Kipnis (Hermann); Karin Branzell (Venus); Max Bloch (Walther); Ludovico Olivero (Heinrich); Antonio Nicolich (Reinmar); Arnold Gabor (Biterolf); Adelina Morelli (Shepherd). Conductor: Fritz Reiner. Director: Ernst Lert. Choreographer: Bronislava Nijinska. Seinemeyer shared the role of Elisabeth with Elsa Gentner Fischer, who sang the first performance on Jul. 26.
Aug. 6. Teatro Col�n, Buenos Aires. Die Meistersinger (Eva); Friedrich Schorr (Sachs); Rudolf Ritter (Walther); Alexander Kipnis (Pogner); Karin Branzell (Magdalene); Gustav Sch�tzendorf (Beckmesser); Max Bloch (David); Luis Nardi (Vogelgesang); Antonio Nicolich (Nachtigall); Arnold Gabor (Kotner/Night Watchman); Ra�l Simoni (Zorn); Ludvico Olivero (Eisslinger); Valent�n Gras Sol� (Moser); Romano Rasponi (Ortel); Guillermo Jurafsky (Schwarz); Atilio Muzio (Foltz). Conductor: Fritz Reiner. Director: Ernst Lert.
Aug. 8. Teatro Col�n, Buenos Aires. Die Meistersinger (Eva). Same cast as Aug. 6.
Aug. 10. Teatro Col�n, Buenos Aires. Tannh�user (Elisabeth). Same cast as Jul. 30, except: Gustav Sch�tzendorf (Wolfram); Valent�n Gras Sol� (Heinrich); Regina Bank (Shepherd). Conductor: Karl Riedel.
Sept. 12. Staatsoper, Dresden. La Boh�me (Mimi).
Sept. 19. Staatsoper, Dresden. Die Meistersinger (Eva).
Sept. 25. Staatsoper, Dresden. Die Fledermaus (Rosalinde).
Sept. 26. Staatsoper, Dresden. Aida (Aida).
Sept. 29. Staatsoper, Dresden. Tosca (Tosca).
Oct. 3. Staatsoper, Dresden. Le Nozze di Figaro [Die Hochzeit des Figaro] (Countess); Ludwig Ermold (Figaro); Liesel von Schuch (Susanna); Robert Burg (Count); Grete Nikisch (Cherubino); Elfriede Haberkorn (Marcellina); Willy Bader (Bartolo); Hanns Lange (Basilio); Heinrich Tessmer (Curzio); Robert B�ssel (Antonio); Erna Berger (Barbarina); Maria Cedron (Bridesmaid); Margit Veith (Bridesmaid). Conductor: Fritz Busch. Director: Otto Krauss.
Oct. 5. Staatsoper, Dresden. Die Fledermaus (Rosalinde).
Oct. 8. Staatsoper, Dresden. Le Nozze di Figaro [Die Hochzeit des Figaro] (Countess).
Oct. 12. Parlophon studio, Berlin. Recording session: "Suicidio" (La Gioconda; her first electrical recording and her first in Italian), "Als Sieger kehre heim" (Aida), "Man nennt mich jetzt Mimi" (La Boh�me). Conductor: Frieder Weissmann.
Oct. 16. Staatsoper, Dresden. Der Freisch�tz (Agathe). The opera was supposed to have been Le Nozze di Figaro [Die Hochzeit des Figaro], but Grete Nikisch (Cherubino) and Julia K�hler (Susanna) were ill, so Der Freisch�tz was substituted.
Oct. 18. Staatsoper, Dresden. Abenteuer des Casanova (Frau des Inquisitors). This was a series of four one-act operas; Seinemeyer appeared only in the first opera, Die Flucht aus Venedig.
Oct. 20. Staatsoper, Dresden. Die Zauberfl�te (Pamina).
Oct. 21. Staatsoper, Dresden. Le Nozze di Figaro [Die Hochzeit des Figaro] (Countess). Same cast as Oct. 3 except: Paul Sch�ffler (Count); Helene Jung (Marcellina); Adolf Schoepflin (Bartolo); Ludwig Eybisch (Basilio); Ernst Meyerolbersleben (Curzio); Julius Puttlitz (Antonio). Seinemeyer was substituting for Claire Born.
Oct. 24. Staatsoper, Dresden. Margarethe [Faust] (Marguerite); Max Hirzel (Faust); Adolf Schoepflin (Mephistopheles); Paul Sch�ffler (Valentin); Robert B�ssel (Brander); Helene Jung (Siebel); Elfriede Haberkorn (Marthe); Julius Puttlitz (Evil spirit). Conductor: Kurt Striegler. Director: Georg Toller. Seinemeyer was substituting for Claire Born.
Nov. 3. Parlophon studio, Berlin. Recording session: "Du kommst daher" (Andrea Chenier, with Tino Pattiera), "O du s�ssestes M�dchen" (La Boh�me, with Tino Pattiera), "Die Bersi hat sich meiner angenommen" (Andrea Chenier, with Tino Pattiera). Conductor: Frieder Weissmann.
Nov. 6. Staatsoper, Dresden. Le Nozze di Figaro [Die Hochzeit des Figaro] (Countess).
Nov. 16. Staatsoper, Dresden. Andrea Ch�nier (Maddalena).
Nov. 19. Staatsoper, Dresden. La Forza del Destino [Die Macht des Schicksals] (Leonora); Tino Pattiera (Alvaro); Robert Burg (Carlo); Ivar Andr�sen (Padre Guardiano); Ludwig Ermold (Melitone); Erna Andreae (Preziosilla); Adolf Schoepflin (Marquis di Calatrava); Maria Cedron (Curra).
Nov. 21. Staatsoper, Dresden. Faust (Marguerite).
[Nov. 23. Seinemeyer is supposed to sing Leonora in Forza, but she is ill and Leone Kruse sings the role.]
[Seinemeyer is listed on the programs as being ill from Nov. 24-27.]
Nov. 27. Parlophon studio, Berlin. Recording session: "Eine Frau bin ich" (Forza del Destino, with Ivar Andr�sen; unpublished). Conductor: Frieder Weissmann.
Nov. 29. Staatsoper, Dresden. Il Trovatore [Der Troubadour] (Leonora).
Dec. 4. Staatsoper, Dresden. Der Freisch�tz (Agathe).
Dec. 6. Staatsoper, Dresden. Le Nozze di Figaro [Die Hochzeit des Figaro] (Countess).
Dec. 9. Staatsoper, Dresden. Der Freisch�tz (Agathe). The opera was supposed to have been Don Pistacchino (without Seinemeyer), but Julia K�hler was ill.
Dec. 10. Staatsoper, Dresden. Andrea Ch�nier (Maddalena).
Dec. 18. Staatsoper, Dresden. Le Nozze di Figaro [Die Hochzeit des Figaro] (Countess); Ludwig Ermold (Figaro); Tilly de Garmo (Susanna); Paul Sch�ffler (Count); Angela Kolniak (Cherubino); Elfriede Haberkorn (Marcellina); Adolf Schoepflin (Bartolo); Ludwig Eybisch (Basilio); Robert B�ssel (Antonio); Erna Berger (Barbarina); Maria Cedron, Margit Veith (Bridesmaids). Conductor: Fritz Busch.
Dec. 20. Staatsoper, Dresden. Otello (Desdemona); Tino Pattiera (Otello); Waldemar Staegemann (Iago); Ludwig Eybisch (Cassio); Hanns Lange (Rodrigo); Willy Bader (Lodovico); Julius Puttlitz (Montano); Paul Sch�ffler (Herald); Helene Jung (Emilia). Conductor: Fritz Busch.
Dec. 22. Staatsoper, Dresden. Le Nozze di Figaro [Die Hochzeit des Figaro] (Countess). Same cast as Dec. 18 except: Robert Burg (Count); Grete Nikisch (Susanna).
Dec. 26. Staatsoper, Dresden. La Forza del Destino [Die Macht des Schicksals] (Leonora).
Dec. 28. Staatsoper, Dresden. Le Nozze di Figaro [Die Hochzeit des Figaro] (Countess). Same cast as Dec. 18 except: Willy Bader (Figaro); Liesel von Schuch (Susanna); Waldemar Staegemann (Count); Grete Nikisch (Cherubino); Hanns Lange (Basilio).
[Seinemeyer also made a guest appearance in Chemnitz in 1926.]
1927
Jan. 1. Staatsoper, Dresden. Die Meistersinger (Eva); Friedrich Plaschke (Sachs); Max Hirzel (Walther); Ivar Andr�sen (Pogner); Ludwig Ermold (Beckmesser); Elfriede Haberkorn (Magdalene); Hanns Lange (David); Ludwig Eybisch (Kunz Vogelgesang); Robert B�ssel (Konrad Nachtigall); Rudolf Schmalnauer (Fritz Kothner). Conductor: Fritz Busch. Seinemeyer sings the role in place of Grete Nikisch, who was ill.
Jan. 9. Staatsoper, Dresden. Lohengrin (Elsa); Max Hirzel (Lohengrin); Eugenie Burkhardt (Ortrud); Robert Burg (Telramund); Ivar Andr�sen (King Heinrich); Paul Sch�ffler (Herald). Conductor: Fritz Busch.
Jan. 11. Staatsoper, Dresden. Margarete [Faust] (Marguerite); Max Hirzel (Faust); Adolf Schoepflin (Mephistopheles); Robert Burg (Valentin); Robert B�ssel (Brander); Helene Jung (Siebel); Elfriede Haberkorn (Marthe); Julius Puttlitz (Evil spirit). Conductor: Kurt Striegler.
Jan. 12. Staatsoper, Dresden. Le Nozze di Figaro [Die Hochzeit des Figaro] (Countess). Same cast as Dec. 18, 1926 except: Julia R�hler (Susanna); Grete Nikisch (Cherubino); Helene Jung (Marcellina); Hanns Lange (Basilio); Julius Puttlitz (Antonio).
Jan. 17. Staatsoper, Dresden. Der Evangelimann (Martha; sung in place of Elisa St�nzner, who was ill); Rudolf Schmalnauer (Aibler; sung in place of Robert B�ssel, who was ill).
Jan. 25. Staatsoper, Dresden. Der Freisch�tz (Agathe).
Jan. 30. Staatsoper, Dresden. Die Zauberfl�te (Pamina). Sung in spite of illness.
[Feb.?] Dresden. Concert. Conductor: Frieder Weissmann.
[Seinemeyer is listed on the programs as being ill between Feb. 2-4.]
Feb. 6. Staatsoper, Dresden. La Boh�me (Mimi).
Feb. 20. Staatsoper, Dresden. La Forza del Destino [Die Macht des Schicksals] (Leonora).
Feb. 22. Staatsoper, Dresden. Tannh�user (Elisabeth).
Feb. 26. Staatsoper, Dresden. Margarete [Faust] (Marguerite).
Feb. 28. Staatsoper, Dresden. Der Freisch�tz (Agathe).
Mar. 5. Staatsoper, Dresden. Tosca (Tosca).
Mar. 7. Staatsoper, Dresden. La Forza del Destino [Die Macht des Schicksals] (Leonora).
Mar. 12. Staatsoper, Dresden. Die Fledermaus (Rosalinde).
Mar. 20. Staatsoper, Dresden. Aida (Aida).
Mar. 24. Staatsoper, Dresden. Der Rosenkavalier (Marschallin). With Ludwig Ermold, Charlotte Boerner, Elisa Stünzner, Helene Jung, Hanns Lange, Guglielmo Fazzini, Erna Berger (Modistin). Conductor: Richard Strauss .
[Mar. 25?]. M�nster. In the Allgemeine Musik-Zeitung, Oct. 22, 1926, is an announcement for a series of Beethoven concerts in M�nster to be given Mar. 24-26, 1927, and Seinemeyer is one of the artists listed. She gave performances in Dresden on Mar. 24 and 26, so Mar. 25 is the only possible date she could have sung in M�nster. Or she may have cancelled the concert in M�nster; I have not yet found a review of it. The other artists in this concert series were Professor Hubermann, Maria Basca, Fritz Krauss, and W. Wissiak.
Mar. 26. Dresden. Beethoven, Symphony No. 9. With Helene Jung, Max Hirzel, and Friedrich Plaschke. Conductor: Richard Strauss.
Mar. 27. Staatsoper, Dresden. Tannh�user (Elisabeth).
[Mar. 30. Seinemeyer is scheduled for a performance of La Boh�me, but cancels because of illness. Liesel von Schuch takes her place.]
[Apr. 6. Seinemeyer is scheduled for a performance of Le Nozze di Figaro [Die Hochzeit des Figaro], but cancels because of illness, and Elisabeth Bergmann-Reiz from Weimar takes her place. Helene Jung, who was scheduled to sing Marcellina, is also ill, and Elfriede Haberkorn takes her place.]
[Seinemeyer is listed on the programs as being ill from Apr. 7-9.]
[Apr. 10. Seinemeyer is scheduled for a performance of Mozart's Requiem in Dresden, with Helene Jung, Max Hirzel, and Ivar Andr�sen, but she cancels for unknown reasons (illness?) and Berta Kiurina, a guest artist, sings the soprano part. Willy Bader sings the bass part in place of Andr�sen.]
Apr. 23. Staatsoper, Dresden. Le Nozze di Figaro [Die Hochzeit des Figaro] (Countess); Ludwig Ermold (Figaro); Tilly de Garmo (Susanna); Elfriede Haberkorn (Marcellina).
Apr. 24. Staatsoper, Dresden. Die Meistersinger (Eva).
Apr. 25. Staatsoper, Dresden. La Forza del Destino [Die Macht des Schicksals] (Leonora). Surprisingly, Seinemeyer is listed on the program as singing in place of Claire Born; I had thought Seinemeyer was Dresden's only Forza Leonora.
Apr. 28. Staatsoper, Dresden. Die Zauberfl�te (Pamina); Ivar Andr�sen (Sarastro); Jaro Dworsky (Tamino); Paul Sch�ffler (Sprecher); Ludwig Eybisch, Rudolf Schmalnauer, Justus Hahn (Priests); Julia R�hler (Queen of the Night); Maria Cedron, Erna Andreae, Elfriede Haberkorn (Three Ladies); Mary Schmid, Charlotte Schlenker, Susanne Wapner (Three Boys); Ludwig Ermold (Papageno); Heinrich Tessmer (Monostatos); Erna Berger (Papagena); Ernst Meyerolbersleben, Robert B�ssel (Two Armored Men). Conductor: Hermann Kutzschbach. Director: Georg Hartmann.
[Apr. or Jun. Leipzig. Seinemeyer was scheduled to sing a performance of Tosca, but was forced to cancel because of illness. Fanny Cleve took her place.
May 1. Staatsoper, Dresden. Tosca (Tosca).
May 4. Parlophon studio, Berlin. Recording session: "Heil�ge Quelle reiner Triebe" (Nozze di Figaro; unpublished), "Und Susanna kommt nicht... Wohin flehen die Wonnestunden" (Nozze di Figaro), "Ich trage meine Minne" (Strauss, with Frieder Weissmann, piano; unpublished). Conductor: Frieder Weissmann.
May 5. Parlophon studio, Berlin. Recording session: "Son giunta, grazie O Dio" (Forza del Destino, with chorus), "Non m�abbandonar" (Forza del Destino), "Pace, pace, mio Dio" (Forza del Destino). Conductor: Frieder Weissmann.
May 8. Staatsoper, Berlin (in the Kroll-Oper). La Forza del Destino [Die Macht des Schicksals] (Leonora); Tino Pattiera (Alvaro); Heinrich Schlusnus (Carlo); Emanuel List (Padre Guardiano); Alfred Borchardt (Marquis di Calatrava); Heinrich Schultz (Melitone); Genia Guszalewicz (Preziosilla); Marcel No� (Mastro Trabuco); Ernst Lehmann (Alcade); Robert Philipp (Surgeon); Charlotte M�ller (Curra); Ernst Spangenberg, J. K�rner, F. Graef (Soldiers). Conductor: Leo Blech. Director: Karl Holy.
May 10. Staatsoper, Dresden. Le Nozze di Figaro [Die Hochzeit des Figaro] (Countess).
[May 13. Seinemeyer is scheduled to sing the Marschallin in Der Rosenkavalier, but cancels because of illness, and Charlotte Viereck takes her place. Ludwig Ermold, who was to have sung Baron Ochs, was also ill, and was replaced by Adolph Schoepflin.]
May 18. Grand Theatre, Geneva. Le Nozze di Figaro [Die Hochzeit des Figaro] (Countess); Grete Nikisch (Susanna). Conductor: Fritz Busch.
May 20. Grand Theatre, Geneva. Der Rosenkavalier (Marschallin); Ludwig Ermold (Baron Ochs); Elisa St�nzner (Octavian); Grete Nikisch (Sophie). Conductor: Fritz Busch. According to Bernhard Dopheide, Fritz Busch: Sein Leben und Wirken in Deutschland mit einem Ausblick auf die Zeit seiner Emigration, p. 156, there were two performances of Der Rosenkavalier in Geneva; the May 20 date is given on p. 112. Zeitschrift f�r Musik and Allgemeine Musik-Zeitung mention only one performance.
May 23. Staatsoper, Dresden. Andrea Ch�nier (Maddalena).
May 25. Staatsoper, Dresden. Der Rosenkavalier (Marschallin).
May 28. Staatsoper, Dresden. Le Nozze di Figaro [Die Hochzeit des Figaro] (Countess).
May 31. Staatsoper, Dresden. La Boh�me (Mimi).
Jun. 2. Staatsoper, Dresden. Margarete [Faust] (Marguerite).
Jun. 5. Staatsoper, Dresden. La Forza del Destino [Die Macht des Schicksals] (Leonora).
Jun. 13. Staatsoper, Dresden. Andrea Ch�nier (Maddalena).
Jun. 17. Staatsoper, Dresden. Tannh�user (Elisabeth);Curt Taucher (Tannh�user), Paul Schöffler (Wolfram), Erna Berger (Shepherd), Margarete Bäumer (Venus), Adolph Schoeplin (Landgraf Hermann). Conductor: Fritz Busch.
Jun. 19. Staatsoper, Dresden. La Forza del Destino [Die Macht des Schicksals] (Leonora); Tino Pattiera (Alvaro); Robert Burg (Carlo). Conductor: Fritz Busch.
Jun. 22. Staatsoper, Vienna. Tosca (Tosca); Alfred Piccaver (Cavaradossi); Emil Schipper (Scarpia); (?) Wolken (Angelotti); Viktor Madin (Sacristan); Anton Arnold (Spoletta); Alfred Muzarelli (Sciarrone, Jailer); Olga Bauer-Pilecka (Shepherd Boy); (?) Birkmeyer (Sergeant). Conductor: Hugo Reichenberger.
Jun. 24. Staatsoper, Vienna. Aida (Aida); Alfred Piccaver (Radames); Rosette Anday (Amneris); Alfred Jerger (Amonasro); Karl Norbert (King of Egypt); Franz Markhoff (Ramfis); William Wernigk (Messenger); Luise Helletsgruber (Priestess). Conductor: Robert Heger.
Jun. 27. Staatsoper, Dresden. Die Walk�re (Sieglinde); Eva Plaschke-von der Osten (Br�nnhilde); Friedrich Plaschke (Wotan); Fritz Vogelstrom (Siegmund); Adolf Schoepflin (Hunding); Irma Tervani (Fricka); Franziska Bender-Sch�fer (Grimgerde; substituting for Helene Jung). Conductor: Hermann Kutzschbach. This was Eva Plaschke-von der Osten's farewell performance. Seinemeyer sang in place of Elisa St�nzner.
[Jun. 28. Seinemeyer is scheduled to sing Desdemona in Otello, but is ill, and Else K�thner from Chemnitz sings the role.]
Jun. 30. Staatsoper, Dresden. La Forza del Destino [Die Macht des Schicksals] (Leonora); Tino Pattiera (Alvaro); Erik Wildhagen (Carlo); Emanuel List (Padre Guardiano); Ludwig Ermold (Melitone). Conductor: Fritz Busch.
Jul. 2. Staatsoper, Dresden. Le Nozze di Figaro [Die Hochzeit des Figaro] (Countess).
Aug. 14. Staatsoper, Dresden. Lohengrin (Elsa).
Aug. 17. Staatsoper, Dresden. Der Freisch�tz (Agathe).
Aug. 20. Staatsoper, Dresden. Die Meistersinger (Eva).
Aug. 22. Staatsoper, Dresden. Der Zigeunerbaron (Saffi); Rudolf Schmalnauer (Peter Homonay); Robert B�ssel (Conte Carnero); Koloman Pataky (Sandor Barinkay); Ludwig Ermold (Zsupan); Erna Berger (Arsena); Marianne Gersfeld (Mirabella); Hanns Lange (Ottokar); Irma Tervani (Czipra); Julius Puttlitz (Pali); Friedrich Ernst (Janosch); Richard Ross (Jozsi); Johannes Pleissner (Ferko); Julius Hahn (Mihaly); Martin Tschampel (Herald); Erna Frese (Sepl); Karl Mildner (Miksa); Charlotte Schlenker (Minna); Tilly Naumann (Irma); Helene Striegler (Tercsi); Susanne Wapner (Aranka); August Seiter (Istvan). Conductor: Kurt Striegler. Director: Waldemar Staegemann.
Aug. 24. Staatsoper, Dresden. Der Zigeunerbaron (Saffi).
Aug. 28. Staatsoper, Dresden. Aida (Aida).
Aug. 30. Staatsoper, Dresden. Der Zigeunerbaron (Saffi).
[Exact date unknown, probably August or early September]. G�rlitz. Concert in the "Musikfreunde" series. Conductor: Fritz Ritter. This concert is mentioned in the October 1927 issue of Zeitschrift f�r Musik. Since Zeitschrift f�r Musik usually reviewed events that took place two (occasionally one and a half) months previously, I am giving August or early September as the approximate date of the concert.
Sept. 5. Staatsoper, Dresden. Tannh�user (Elisabeth); Curt Taucher (Tannh�user); Ivar Andr�sen (Landgraf Hermann); Paul Sch�ffler (Wolfram); Max Lorenz (Walter); Ludwig Ermold (Biterolf); Hanns Lange (Heinrich); Julius Puttlitz (Reinmar); Eugenie Burkhardt (Venus); Erna Berger (Shepherd); Elsa Seiter, Susanne Liebeskind, Sophie Scheidhacker, Gertrud Matthes (Pages). Conductor: Fritz Busch. Director: Otto Erhardt.
Sept. 8. Staatsoper, Dresden. La Forza del Destino [Die Macht des Schicksals] (Leonora).
Sept. 11. Staatsoper, Dresden. Otello (Desdemona).
Sept. 14. Staatsoper, Dresden. La Forza del Destino [Die Macht des Schicksals] (Leonora).
Sept. 18. Staatsoper, Dresden. Aida (Aida).
[Seinemeyer is listed on the programs as being ill between Sept. 23-26.]
Sept. 27. Staatsoper, Dresden. Cosi fan tutte (Fiordiligi); Grete Nikisch (Dorabella); Liesel von Schuch (Despina); Max Hirzel (Ferrando); Paul Sch�ffler (Guglielmo); Ludwig Ermold (Don Alfonso). Conductor: Fritz Busch. Director: Otto Erhardt.
[Oct. 1. Seinemeyer is scheduled to sing the Countess in Le Nozze di Figaro [Die Hochzeit des Figaro], but cancels because of illness, and K�the Heidersbach sings the role. Robert B�ssel, who was scheduled to sing Antonio, is also ill and is replaced by Julius Puttlitz.]
Oct. 3. Staatsoper, Dresden. Cosi fan tutte (Fiordiligi).
Oct. 6. Staatsoper, Dresden. Cosi fan tutte (Fiordiligi).
Oct. 8. Staatsoper, Dresden. La Forza del Destino [Die Macht des Schicksals] (Leonora).
Oct. 12. Staatsoper, Dresden. Der Freisch�tz (Agathe).
Oct. 16. Staatsoper, Dresden. Tannh�user (Elisabeth).
Oct. 18. Staatsoper, Dresden. Cosi fan tutte (Fiordiligi).
Oct. 19. Staatsoper, Dresden. Andrea Ch�nier (Maddalena).
Oct. 22. Staatsoper, Dresden. La Forza del Destino [Die Macht des Schicksals] (Leonora). This was Dresden's 25th performance of Forza.
[Fall, probably Nov.] Kiel. Aida (Aida); Max Hirzel (Radames); Adolf Martini. Conductor: Eugen Jochum. The performance took place at the beginning of the Kieler Herbstwoche.
Nov. 1. Parlophon studio, Berlin. Recording session: "Zu des Niles heil�gem Ufer eilt dahin" (Aida, with Helene Jung, Ivar Andr�sen, Willy Bader), "Bringt der G�ttern Dank" (Aida, with Helene Jung, Max Hirzel, Robert Burg, Ivar Andr�sen, Willy Bader). Conductor: Frieder Weissmann.
Nov. 2. Parlophon studio, Berlin. Recording session: "In quelle trine morbide" (Manon Lescaut), "Ivan Sergeivich, geh�n wir in den Garten" (Tsar�s Bride), "Tu che la vanit�" (Don Carlo). Conductor: Frieder Weissmann.
Nov. 5. Staatsoper, Dresden. Cosi fan tutte (Fiordiligi).
Nov. 10. Berlin. Concert with the Berlin Philharmonic; second concert of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde series. Seinemeyer sang Parasya�s aria from Mussorgsky�s Sorochintsy Fair and "Ivan Sergeivich, geh�n wir in den Garten" from Rimsky-Korsakov�s Tsar�s Bride. Other solists in the concert were Hugo Strelitzer, celesta, and Fritz Fischer, piano. Also on the program were Prokofiev's Ala and Lolly, and Scythische Suite (for the first time), and Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6. Conductor: Heinz Unger.
Nov. 17. Staatsoper, Dresden. Otello (Desdemona).
Nov. 19. Staatsoper, Dresden. La Forza del Destino [Die Macht des Schicksals] (Leonora).
Nov. 22. Staatsoper, Dresden. Die Fledermaus (Rosalinde).
Nov. 23. Staatsoper, Dresden. Der Evangelimann (Martha).
Dec. 5. Staatsoper, Dresden. Margarete [Faust] (Marguerite).
Dec. 7. Staatsoper, Dresden. Tannh�user (Elisabeth).
Dec. 9. Vereinshaus, Dresden. Concert with Frieder Weissmann, piano. Seinemeyer sang "Wie nahte mir der Schlummer" from Der Freisch�tz, "Liebst du um Sch�nheit" and "Ich atmet' einen linden Duft" by Mahler, "Lenznacht" and "O Welt, du Wunder" by Leonore Pfund, "Das Geheimnis" and "Kling!" by Strauss, "Suicidio!" from La Gioconda, and "In quelle trine morbide" from Manon Lescaut. Her encores were another song by Strauss, "Vissi d'arte" from Tosca, and "La mamma morta" from Andrea Chénier.
Dec. 10. Berlin. Concert with Michail von Gitowsky (bass, substituting for Emanuel List) and Wolfgang Ros� (piano). Seinemeyer sang Strauss� "C�cilie" and "Morgen" and arias from Der Freisch�tz.
Dec. 16. Philharmonic, Berlin. Concert with Emanuel List (bass) and Wolfgang Ros� (piano). The program was: Schubert, Sonata op. 53 (Ros�); Mozart, "In diesen heil'gen Hallen" from Die Zauberfl�te (List); Rossini, "La Calunnia" from Il Barbiere di Siviglia (List); Mozart, "Dove sono" from Le Nozze di Figaro (Seinemeyer); Puccini, "In quelle trine morbide" from Manon Lescaut (Seinemeyer); Thomas, "Le tambour major" (List); Strauss, "Morgen" and "C�cilie" (Seinemeyer); Verdi, Leonora/Padre Guardiano duet from La Forza del Destino (Seinemeyer/List).
Dec. 26. Staatsoper, Dresden. Aida (Aida).
Dec. 27. Parlophon studio, Berlin. Recording session: "Die Wunden brennen f�hl� ich nicht" (Forza del Destino, with chorus), "So beginne" (Forza del Destino, with Ivar Andr�sen; unpublished), "Einst wirst du dein Los beklagen" (Forza del Destino, with Ivar Andr�sen), "Preis dir" (Forza del Destino, with Ivar Andr�sen; unpublished), "Du wirst den Schritt beim Morgenrot" (Forza del Destino, with Ivar Andr�sen). Conductor: Frieder Weissmann.
Dec. 29. Staatsoper, Dresden. Die Meistersinger (Eva); Friedrich Plaschke (Sachs); Curt Taucher (Walther); Ludwig Ermold (Beckmesser). Conductor: Leo Blech.
Dec. 30. Staatsoper, Dresden. Der Freisch�tz (Agathe).
Dec. 31. Staatsoper, Dresden. Die Fledermaus (Rosalinde).
[Seinemeyer also sang in Teplitz-Sch�nau in the 1926-27 season.]
1928
Early Jan. Berlin. Concert with the Berlin Philharmonic.
Jan. 5. Dresden. Beethoven, Symphony No. 9. Helene Jung, Max Hirzel, Robert Burg. Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra and Volkssingakademie. Conductor: Frieder Weissmann.
Jan. 14. Staatsoper, Dresden. Die Fledermaus (Rosalinde); Ludwig Eybisch (Eisenstein); Waldemar Staegemann (Frank); Helene Jung (Orlofsky); Max Hirzel (Alfred); Rudolf Schmalnauer (Falke); Hanns Lange (Dr. Blind); Grete Nikisch (Adele); Stefanie Oberhel (Ida); Erna Frese (Sidi); Erni St�ber (Faustina); Johanna Schwarz (Felicita); Elsa Seiter (Melanie); Johanna Falke (Minni); Tilly Naumann (Hermine); Frieda Steiniger (Irene); Susanne Wapner (Nathalie); August Seiter (Ali Bey); Richard Ross (Ramusin); Walter Ackermann (Murray); Ludwig Roth (Cariconi); Robert B�ssel (Frosch); Justus Hahn (Ivan); Alfred K�hn, Karl Mildner, Josef Hafner, Gotthold Paul, Carl Hagemann, Fritz Seifert (Servants). Conductor: Kurt Striegler. Director: Waldemar Staegemann.
Jan. 16. Beethovensaal, Berlin. Concert with Frieder Weissmann (piano). Seinemeyer sang arias from Der Freisch�tz, La Gioconda, Manon Lescaut, and Tosca, and songs by Schubert, Mahler, and Strauss.
Jan. 17. Staatsoper, Dresden. Tosca (Tosca); Guglielmo Fazzini (Cavaradossi); Robert Burg (Scarpia); Robert B�ssel (Angelotti); Adolf Schoepflin (Sacristan); Hanns Lange (Spoletta); Rudolf Schmalnauer (Sciarrone); Julius Puttlitz (Jailer); Elfriede Haberkorn (Shepherd). Conductor: Hermann Kutzschbach. Director: Robert Bossbart.
Jan. 19. Parlophon studio, Berlin. Recording session: "O Himmel, was h�r� ich, welch� schaurige Kl�nge" (Il Trovatore, with John Gl�ser), "Mild und leise wie er l�chelt" (Tristan und Isolde), "Traum durch die D�mmerung" (Strauss). Conductor: Frieder Weissmann.
[Jan. 22. Seinemeyer is scheduled to sing Desdemona in Otello, but cancels because of illness, and Carmen is done instead.]
Jan. 25. Staatsoper, Dresden. Otello (Desdemona); Tino Pattiera (Otello); Robert Burg (Iago); Ludwig Eybisch (Cassio); Hanns Lange (Rodrigo); Adolf Schoepflin (Lodovico); Julius Puttlitz (Montano); Robert B�ssel (Herald); Helene Jung (Emilia). Conductor: Kurt Striegler. Director: Otto Erhardt.
Jan. 29. Staatsoper, Dresden. La Forza del Destino [Die Macht des Schicksals] (Leonora). Same cast as March 20, 1926 except: Ivar Andr�sen (Padre Guardiano); Elfriede Haberkorn (Preziosilla); Julius Puttlitz (Surgeon/Laienbruder); Sophie Schroeder (Curra). Conductor: Fritz Busch. Director: Waldemar Staegemann.
[Jan. or Feb.] Dresden. Concert.
Feb. 2. Staatsoper, Dresden. Die Meistersinger (Eva); Friedrich Plaschke (Sachs); Max Hirzel (Walther); Ivar Andr�sen (Pogner); Ludwig Ermold (Beckmesser); Ludwig Eybisch (Kunz Vogelgesang); Robert B�ssel (Konrad Nachtigall); Rudolf Schmalnauer (Fritz Kothner); Gotthold Paul (Balthasar Zorn); Ernst Meyerolbersleben (Ulrich Eisslinger); Paul Zschokke (Augustin Moser); Paul Sch�ffler (Hermann Ortel); Julius Puttlitz (Hans Schwarz); Friedrich Ernst (Hans Folz); Heinrich Tessmer (David); Elfriede Haberkorn (Magdalene); Robert B�ssel (Night Watchman). Conductor: Fritz Busch. Director: Otto Erhardt.
Feb. 5. Staatsoper, Dresden. La Boh�me (Mimi); Tino Pattiera (Rodolfo); Robert Burg (Marcello); Julia R�hler (Musetta); Paul Sch�ffler (Schaunard); Adolf Schoepflin (Colline); Robert B�ssel (Bernard); Richard Ross (Parpignol); Hanns Lange (Alcindoro); Julius Puttlitz (Sergeant); Emil Piehler (Customs official). Conductor: Kurt Striegler. Director: Waldemar Staegemann.
Feb. 6. Staatsoper, Dresden. Der Evangelimann (Martha). Same cast as Sept. 22, 1925 except: Ludwig Eybisch (Hans). Conductor: Kurt Striegler. Director: Waldemar Staegemann.
Feb. 9. Staatsoper, Dresden. Le Nozze di Figaro [Figaros Hochzeit] (Countess); Willy Bader (Figaro); Grete Nikisch (Susanna); Paul Sch�ffler (Count); Angela Kolniak (Cherubino); Helene Jung (Marcellina); Adolf Schoepflin (Bartolo); Ludwig Eybisch (Basilio); Heinrich Tessmer (Curzio); Robert B�ssel (Antonio); Erna Berger (Barbarina);Charlotte Schlenker, Sophie Schroeder (Bridesmaids). Conductor: Fritz Busch. Director: Waldemar Staegemann.
[Feb. 13. Seinemeyer is scheduled to sing Elisabeth in Tannh�user, but cancels because of illness, and Elisa St�nzner sings the role.]
Feb. 14. Staatsoper, Dresden. Le Nozze di Figaro [Figaros Hochzeit] (Countess); Ludwig Ermold (Figaro); Liesel von Schuch (Susanna); Waldemar Staegemann (Count); Grete Nikisch (Cherubino); Elfriede Haberkorn (Marcellina); Adolf Schoepflin (Bartolo); Hanns Lange (Basilio); Heinrich Tessmer (Curzio); Robert B�ssel (Antonio); Erna Berger (Barbarina); Charlotte Schlenker, Sophie Schroeder (Bridesmaids). Conductor: Fritz Busch. Director: Waldemar Staegemann.
Feb. 19. Staatsoper, Dresden. Lohengrin (Elsa); Max Hirzel (Lohengrin); Eugenie Burkhardt (Ortrud); Friederich Plaschke (Telramund); Ivar Andr�sen (King Heinrich); Paul Sch�ffler (Herald); Ludwig Eybisch, Hanns Lange, Robert B�ssel, Julius Puttlitz (Noblemen); Erna Berger, Charlotte Schlenker, Helene Striegler, Susanne Wapner (Pages). Conductor: Kurt Striegler. Director: Otto Erhardt.
Feb. 21. Staatsoper, Dresden. Cosi fan tutte (Fiordiligi). Same cast as Sept. 27, 1927.
Feb. 27. Staatsoper, Dresden. Die Zauberfl�te (Pamina); Max Hirzel (Tamino); Liesel von Schuch (Queen of the Night); Ivar Andr�sen (Sarastro); Ludwig Ermold (Papageno); Grete Nikisch (Papagena); Hanns Lange (Monastatos); Robert Burg (Speaker); Ludwig Eybisch, Rudolf Schmalnauer, Justus Hahn (Priests); Angela Kolniak, Charlotte Schrader, Helene Jung (Three Ladies); Erna Berger, Sophie Schroeder, Elfriede Haberkorn (Three Boys); Max Lorenz, Robert B�ssel (Two Armored Men). Conductor: Hermann Kutzschbach. Director: Waldemar Staegemann.
Feb. 29. Staatsoper, Dresden. La Forza del Destino [Die Macht des Schicksals] (Leonora); Same cast as Jan. 29 except: Koloman Pataky (Alvaro); Rudolf Schmalnauer (Alcade).
Mar. 2. Staatsoper, Dresden. Der Zigeunerbaron (Saffi); Koloman Pataky (Sandor Barinkay); Rudolf Schmalnauer (Peter Homonay); Adolf Schoepflin (Carnero); Ludwig Ermold (K�lm�n Zsup�n); Erna Berger (Arsena); Marianne Gersfeld (Mirabella); Hanns Lange (Ottokar); Irma Tervani (Czipra); Julius Puttlitz (Pali); Friedrich Ernst (Janosch); Richard Ross (J�zsi); Johannes Pleissner (Ferko); Justus Hahn (Mih�ly); Martin Tschampel (Herald); Erna Frese (Sepi); Karl Mildner (Mikja); Charlotte Schlenker (Minna); Tilly Naumann (Irma); Helene Striegler (Tercsi); Susanne Wapner (Aranka); August Seiter (Istvan). Conductor: Kurt Striegler. Director: Waldemar Staegemann.
Mar. 6. Staatsoper, Dresden. Der Zigeunerbaron (Saffi). Same cast as Mar. 2 except: Robert B�ssel (Carnero); Elfriede Haberkorn (Czipra); Johanna Schwarz (Minna). Conductor: Hermann Kutzschbach.
Mar. 10. Staatsoper, Dresden. Der Freisch�tz (Agathe); Fritz Vogelstrom (Max); Angela Kolniak (�nnchen); Adolf Schoepflin (Kaspar); Rudolf Schmalnauer (Ottokar); Robert B�ssel (Kuno); Ivar Andr�sen (Hermit); Julius Puttlitz (Samiel); Hanns Lange (Kilian); Ernst Meyerolbersleben, Justus Hahn, Klaus Hermanns (Hunters); Erna Berger (Bridesmaid). Conductor: Kurt Striegler. Director: Waldemar Staegemann.
Mar. 13. Staatsoper, Dresden. Don Giovanni (Donna Anna); Paul Sch�ffler (Don Giovanni); Julia R�hler (Donna Elvira); Angela Kolniak (Zerlina); Koloman Pataky (Don Ottavio); Ludwig Ermold (Leporello); Rudolf Schmalnauer (Masetto); Willy Bader (Commendatore); Friedrich Ernst (Commendatore's major-domo); Ida Weinert (Donna Anna's servant); Hilde Griessbach (Donna Elvira's servant); Carl Hagemann, Hans Rudolph, Hubert Florack, Fritz Seifert (Don Giovanni's servants); Justus Hahn (Don Ottavio's servant); August Seiter (Landlord). Conductor: Fritz Busch. Director: Waldemar Staegemann.
[Mar. 15. Seinemeyer is scheduled to sing Saffi in a performance of Der Zigeunerbaron in Dresden, but is too ill to sing, and Hanni Hüttenes from Chemnitz sings the role.]
Apr. 1. Dresden. Beethoven, Symphony No. 9. Helene Jung, Waldemar Henke, Friedrich Plaschke, Dresdner Lehrergesangverein. Conductor: Hermann Kutschbach.
Apr. 2. Deutsche Oper, Berlin. Le Nozze di Figaro [Figaros Hochzeit] (Countess); Anton (?) Baumann; Friedrich Schorr; Wilhelm Guttmann (Count?); Maria Rajdl (Susanna?). Conductor: Bruno Walter.
Apr. 5. Staatsoper, Dresden. Tosca (Tosca). Same cast as Jan. 17 except: Friedrich Plaschke (Scarpia); Rudolf Schmalnauer (Angelotti); Ludwig Ermold (Sacristan); Ludwig Eybisch (Sciarrone). Conductor: Kurt Striegler.
Apr. 11. Staatsoper, Dresden. Otello (Desdemona). Same cast as Jan. 25 except: Waldemar Staegemann (Iago); Willy Bader (Lodovico).
Apr. 13. Staatsoper, Dresden. Die Fledermaus (Rosalinde). Same cast as Jan. 14 except: Irma Tervani (Orlofsky); Hanns Lange (Alfred); Robert B�ssel (Dr. Blind); Erna Berger (Adele); Margarete Noack (Ida); Katharina Bruns (Hermine); Ludwig Ermold (Frosch).
Apr. 16. Staatsoper, Dresden. Andrea Ch�nier (Maddalena); Tino Pattiera (Ch�nier); Friedrich Plaschke (G�rard); Helene Jung (Countess); Sigrid Rothermel (Bersi); Adolf Schoepflin (Roucher); Ludwig Ermold (Matthieu); Elfriede Haberkorn (Madelon); Hanns Lange (Incroyable); Rudolf Schmalnauer (Fl�ville); Ludwig Eybisch (Abbot); Julius Puttlitz (Major-domo/Dumas); Robert B�ssel (Schmidt); Paul Sch�ffler (Fouquier-Tinville); Rolf Schroeder (Filandro Farinelli); August Seiter (Horatius Cocles); Johannes Pleissner (G�rard's father); Justus Hahn (Secretary of the Revolutionary Tribunal); Rudolf Hornuff (Robespierre); Anton Scheurich (Gravier de Vergennes); Paula Seiring (Laval de Montmorency); Charlotte Gedlich (Lucie Legray); Walter Ackermann (Ausrufer). Conductor: Kurt Striegler. Directors: Robert Bossbart, Georg Toller.
Apr. 19. Parlophon studio, Berlin. Recording session: "Du bist die Ruh�" (Schubert; unpublished), "Gretchen am Spinnrade" (Schubert). Conductor: Frieder Weissmann.
Apr. 24. Parlophon studio, Berlin. Recording session: "So lasset mich scheinen" (Schubert), "Die junge Nonne" (Schubert), "Preislied" (Die Meistersinger, with Sigismund Pilinsky). Conductor: Frieder Weissmann.
Apr. 28. Staatsoper, Dresden. Die Fledermaus (Rosalinde). Same cast as Jan. 14 except: Irma Tervani (Orlofsky); Robert Burg (Falke); Robert B�ssel (Dr. Blind); Margarete Noack (Ida); Katharina Bruns (Hermine); Ludwig Ermold (Frosch). Conductor: Hermann Kutzschbach.
[May, exact date unknown. Guest appearance in Magdeburg.]
May 4. Staatsoper, Dresden. Cosi fan tutte (Fiordiligi). Same cast as Sept. 27, 1927 except that the conductor was Leo Wurmser.
May 6. Staatsoper, Dresden. Tannh�user (Elisabeth); Curt Taucher (Tannh�user); Paul Sch�ffler (Wolfram); Willy Bader (Landgraf Hermann); Eugenie Burkhardt (Venus); Ludwig Eybisch (Walter); Rudolf Schmalnauer (Biterolf); Hanns Lange (Heinrich); Julius Puttlitz (Reinmar); Erna Berger (Shepherd); Sigrid Rothermel, Elsa Seiter, Alice Liebeskind, Gertrud Matthes (Pages). Conductor: Kurt Striegler. Director: Otto Erhardt.
May 7. Staatsoper, Dresden. Cavalleria Rusticana [Sizilianische Bauernehre] (Santuzza); Guglielmo Fazzini (Turiddu); Elfriede Haberkorn (Mamma Lucia); Friedrich Plaschke (Alfio); Angela Kolniak (Lola); Ida Maeder (A woman). On a double bill with Pagliacci [Der Bajazzo] with Max Hirzel (Canio); Angela Kolniak (Nedda); Friedrich Plaschke (Tonio); Heinrich Tessmer (Beppo); Waldemar Staegemann (Silvio); Julius Puttlitz (Countryman). Conductor: Kurt Striegler. Director: Waldemar Staegemann.
May 11. Parlophon studio, Berlin. Recording session: "Gi� nella notte densa" (Otello, with Tino Pattiera), "Pur ti riveggo, mia dolce Aida (Aida, with Tino Pattiera). Conductor: Frieder Weissmann.
May 18. Staatsoper, Dresden. La Forza del Destino [Die Macht des Schicksals] (Leonora). Same cast as March 20, 1926 except: Karl Hauss (Alvaro); Adolf Schoepflin (Marquis di Calatrava); Elfriede Haberkorn (Preziosilla); Julius Puttlitz (Surgeon/Laienbruder); Sigrid Rothermel (Curra). Conductor: Kurt Striegler. Director: Waldemar Staegemann.
May 21. Staatsoper, Dresden. Der Zigeunerbaron (Saffi). Same cast as Mar. 2 except: Adolf Lussmann (Sandor Barinkay); Robert B�ssel (Carnero); Elfriede Haberkorn (Czipra); Erna St�ber (Sepi); Johanna Schwarz (Minna). Conductor: Hermann Kutzschbach.
May 23. Staatsoper, Dresden. La Forza del Destino [Die Macht des Schicksals] (Leonora). Same cast as May 18 except: Willy Bader (Marquis di Calatrava).
May 24. Staatsoper, Dresden. Cosi fan tutte (Fiordiligi). Same cast as Sept. 27, 1927.
May 28. Staatsoper, Dresden. Die Zauberfl�te (Pamina). Same cast as Feb. 27 except: Julia R�hler (Queen of the Night); Waldemar Staegemann (Papageno); Heinrich Tessmer (Monastatos); Paul Sch�ffler (Speaker); Julius Puttlitz (Second Armored Man).
Jun. 4. Staatsoper, Dresden. Die Meistersinger (Eva). Same cast as Feb. 2 except Willy Bader (Pogner). There was also a substitute for Paul Zschokke as Augustin Moser, but the name is handwritten in the program, and I cannot read the handwriting.
Jun. 5. Staatsoper, Dresden. Cosi fan tutte (Fiordiligi). Same cast as Sept. 27, 1927.
Jun. 9. Staatsoper, Dresden. Der Freisch�tz (Agathe); Max Hirzel (Max); Angela Kolniak (�nnchen); Adolf Schoepflin (Kaspar); Ivar Andr�sen (Hermit); Rudolf Schmalnauer (Ottokar); Ludwig Ermold (Kuno); Julius Puttlitz (Samiel); Hanns Lange (Kilian); Ernst Meyerolbersleben, Justus Hahn, Klaus Hermanns (Hunters); Erna Berger (Bridesmaid). Conductor: Hermann Kutzschbach. Director: Waldemar Staegemann.
Jun. 13. Staatsoper, Dresden. Der Freisch�tz (Agathe). Same cast as Jun. 9 except: Fritz Vogelstrom (Max); Robert B�ssel (Kuno).
Jun. 14. Staatsoper, Dresden. La Forza del Destino [Die Macht des Schicksals] (Leonora). This date was found in a Dresden program by Matthias Beutlich; it does not agree with the schedule of performances given in Allgemeine Musik-Zeitung.
Jun. 16. Staatsoper, Dresden. Cosi fan tutte (Fiordiligi). Same cast as Sept. 27, 1927.
Jun. 17. Staatsoper, Dresden. Tannh�user (Elisabeth). Same cast as May 6 except: Margarete B�umer (Venus); Adolf Schoepflin (Landgraf Hermann); Ludwig Ermold (Biterolf). Conductor: Fritz Busch.
Jun. 19. Staatsoper, Dresden. La Forza del Destino [Die Macht des Schicksals] (Leonora). Same cast as May 23, except that the conductor was Fritz Busch.
[Jun. 19 or 26. During the Festspiele der Staatsoper Dresden, a performance of Forza was cancelled because Seinemeyer was ill, and Die �gyptische Helena was substituted. The incident is mentioned in Fritz Busch's memoirs. Jun. 19 and 26 were the dates when Forza was scheduled. There is a program for Jun. 19, so I think Jun. 26 is the more likely date for the cancellation.]
Jun. 22. Parlophon studio, Berlin. Recording session: "Ancora un passo or via" (Madama Butterfly, with chorus), "Singet, singet vereint im vollen Chor" (Tosca, with chorus), "Vissi d�arte" (Tosca), "Un bel d� vedremo" (Madama Butterfly), "La mamma morta" (Andrea Chenier). Conductor: Frieder Weissmann.
Jun. 25. Parlophon studio, Berlin. Recording session: "Zug zum M�nster" (Lohengrin, with Sigismund Pilinsky, Helene Jung, Robert Burg, Fritz D�ttbernd, chorus), "Durch Gottes Sieg" (Lohengrin, with Sigismund Pilinsky, Helene Jung, Robert Burg, Fritz D�ttbernd, chorus). Conductor: Frieder Weissmann.
Aug. 19. Staatsoper, Dresden. La Boh�me (Mimi); Max Hirzel (Rodolfo); Waldemar Staegemann (Marcello); Liesel von Schuch (Musetta); Ludwig Ermold (Schaunard); Adolf Schoepflin (Colline); Robert B�ssel (Bernard); Richard Ross (Parpignol); Hanns Lange (Alcindoro); Julius Puttlitz (Sergeant); Emil Piehler (Customs official). Conductor: Kurt Striegler. Director: Waldemar Staegemann.
Aug. 23. Staatsoper, Dresden. Der Rosenkavalier (Marschallin); Adolf Schoepflin (Baron Ochs); Elisa St�nzner (Octavian); Angela Kolniak (Sophie); Rudolf Schmalnauer (Faninal); Eva Johnn (Marianne); Hanns Lange (Valzacchi); Elfriede Haberkorn (Annina); Willy Bader (Police commissioner); Robert B�ssel (Marschallin's major-domo); Heinrich Tessmer (Faninal's major-domo); Julius Puttlitz (Notary); Heinrich Tessmer (Landlord); Guglielmo Fazzini (Italian tenor); Carl Mildner (Learned man); Johannes Wink (Flutist); Rudolf Hornuff (Hairdresser); Lucia D�litzsch (Noble widow); Tilly Naumann, Erna Frese, Paula Seiring (Three noble orphans); Erna Berger (Modistin); Ludwig Eybisch (Animal handler); Carl Hagemann (Lerchenau's servant); Ludwig Eybisch, Ludwig Roth, Justus Hahn, Emil Piehler (Marschallin's servants); Ferdinand Mayer (Hausknecht); Justus Hahn, Emil Piehler, Karl Lohse-Hellmuth, Hans Schneider (Waiters). Conductor: Hermann Kutzschbach. Director: Otto Erhardt.
[Aug. 25. Seinemeyer cancels a rehearsal of Manon Lescaut.]
Aug. 27. Staatsoper, Dresden. Lohengrin (Elsa). Same cast as Feb. 19 except: Curt Taucher (Lohengrin); Hildegard Weigel, Sigrid Rothermel, Elfriede Haberkorn (Pages). Conductor: Fritz Busch.
Sept. 2. Staatsoper, Dresden. Tannh�user (Elisabeth). Same cast as May 6 except: Ivar Andr�sen (Landgraf Hermann); Minny Ruske-Leopold (Venus); Max Lorenz (Walter); Ludwig Ermold (Biterolf). Conductor: Hermann Kutzschbach.
Sept. 4. Staatsoper, Dresden. Tosca (Tosca); Curt Taucher (Cavaradossi); Friedrich Plaschke (Scarpia); Robert B�ssel (Angelotti); Ludwig Ermold (Sacristan); Hanns Lange (Spoletta); Rudolf Schmalnauer (Sciarrone); Julius Puttlitz (Jailer); Elfriede Haberkorn (Shepherd). Conductor: Kurt Striegler. Director: Robert Bossbart. Seinemeyer sang in place of Elisa St�nzner, who had an arm injury.
Sept. 9. Staatsoper, Dresden. La Forza del Destino [Die Macht des Schicksals] (Leonora). Same cast as March 20, 1926 except: Ivar Andr�sen (Padre Guardiano); Elfriede Haberkorn (Preziosilla); Julius Puttlitz (Surgeon/Laienbruder); Sigrid Rothermel (Curra). Conductor: Kurt Striegler. Director: Waldemar Staegemann.
Sept. 12. Staatsoper, Dresden. Manon Lescaut (Manon); Max Hirzel (Des Grieux); Robert Burg (Lescaut); Adolf Schoepflin (Geronte); Heinrich Tessmer (Edmundo); Robert B�ssel (Landlord); Elfriede Haberkorn (Musician); Hanns Lange (Ballet teacher); Ludwig Eybisch (Lamplighter); Rudolf Schmalnauer (Sergeant); Julius Puttlitz (Sea captain); Rudolf Hornuff (Wigmaker). Conductor: Hermann Kutschbach. Director: Waldemar Staegemann.
Sept. 13. Staatsoper, Dresden. Faust [Margarete] (Marguerite); Tino Pattiera (Faust); Adolf Schoepflin (Mephistopheles); Paul Sch�ffler (Valentin); Robert B�ssel (Brander); Helene Jung (Siebel); Elfriede Haberkorn (Marthe); Julius Puttlitz (Evil spirit). Conductor: Kurt Striegler. Director: Waldemar Staegemann.
Sept. 14. Staatsoper, Dresden. Der Freisch�tz (Agathe). Same cast as Jun. 9 except: Curt Taucher (Max); Grete Nikisch (�nnchen); Hans Diener (Hunter); Hildegard Weigel (Bridesmaid).
Sept. 16. Staatsoper, Dresden. Die Meistersinger (Eva). Same cast as Feb 2, except: Curt Taucher (Walther); Robert Burg (Fritz Kothner); Guglielmo Fazzini (Balthasar Zorn); Paul Zschokke (Ulrich Eisslinger); Klaus Hermanns (Augustin Moser). Conductor: Hermann Kutzschbach.
Sept. 21. Parlophon studio, Berlin. Recording session: "Nicht dort, dort ist das Vorzimmer" (Der Rosenkavalier, with Elisa St�nzer, Emanuel List), "Bin von so viel Finesse charmiert" (Der Rosenkavalier, with Elisa St�nzer, Emanuel List), "Mein Gott" (Der Rosenkavalier, with Grete Merrem-Nikisch, Elisa St�nzer), "Hab� mir�s gelobt" (Der Rosenkavalier, with Grete Merrem-Nikisch, Elisa St�nzer). Conductor: Frieder Weissmann.
Sept. 22. Staatsoper, Dresden. Manon Lescaut (Manon). Same cast as Sept. 12.
Sept. 25. Staatsoper, Dresden. Andrea Ch�nier (Maddalena). Same cast as Apr. 16.
[According to a handwritten document in the Dresden Opera Archive, Seinemeyer was in Plauen on Sept. 29 and 30.]
Oct. 2. Staatsoper, Dresden. Manon Lescaut (Manon). Same cast as Sept. 12 except: Max Lorenz (Des Grieux); Heinrich Tessmer (Lamplighter).
Oct. 3. Staatsoper, Dresden. Manon Lescaut (Manon). Same cast as Sept. 12 except: Paul Sch�ffler (Lescaut); Rudolf Schmalnauer (Geronte); Julius Puttlitz (Landlord); Heinrich Tessmer (Lamplighter); Robert B�ssel (Sergeant). The opera was originally supposed to be Cosi fan tutte, but it was changed because Ludwig Ermold was ill.
Oct. 7. Staatsoper, Dresden. Die Walk�re (Sieglinde). Curt Taucher (Siegmund); Eugenie Burkhardt (Br�nnhilde); Friedrich Plaschke (Wotan); Ivar Andr�sen (Hunding); Irma Tervani (Fricka/Rossweisse); Liesel von Schuch (Gerhilde); Grete Nikisch (Ortlinde); Angela Kolniak (Waltraute); Elfriede Haberkorn (Schwertleite); Julia R�hler (Helmwige); Ida Maeder (Siegrune); Helene Jung (Grimgerde). Conductor: Hermann Kutzschbach. Director: Otto Erhardt.
Oct. 10. Staatsoper, Dresden. Der Freisch�tz (Agathe). Same cast as Jun. 9 except: Erna Berger (�nnchen); Robert B�ssel (Kuno); Heinrich Tessmer (Kilian); Hans Diener (Hunter); Hildegard Weigel (Bridesmaid). Conductor: Fritz Busch.
Oct. 12. Staatsoper, Dresden. Manon Lescaut (Manon). Same cast as Sept. 12 except: Max Lorenz (Des Grieux).
Oct. 16. Gewerbehaus, Dresden. Concert with the Dresden Philharmonic. Seinemeyer sang an opera aria by Mussorgsky, an aria by Rimsky-Korsakov, and songs by Frieder Weissmann, with texts by Andr� Germain. Also on the program were concert dances by Mussorgsky and Mahler's Fifth Symphony. Conductor: Frieder Weissmann.
Oct. 17. Staatsoper, Dresden. Manon Lescaut (Manon). Same cast as Sept. 12 except: Paul Sch�ffler (Lescaut).
Oct. 19. Parlophon studio, Berlin. Recording session: "Ich gr�ߒ dich, kleine Schwester" (Manon Lescaut, with Robert Burg), "Ach, in den kalten R�umen hier" (Manon Lescaut, with Robert Burg), "Himmel! Mein Vater!... Wohlan denn, erhebt euch, �gyptische Scharen" (Aida, with Robert Burg). Conductor: Frieder Weissmann.
Oct. 21. Staatsoper, Dresden. Lohengrin (Elsa). Same cast as Feb. 19 except: Robert Burg (Herald); Hildegard Weigel, Sigrid Rothermel, Elfriede Haberkorn (Pages).
Oct. 22. Staatsoper, Dresden. Le Nozze di Figaro [Figaros Hochzeit] (Countess). Same cast as Feb. 14 except: Helene Jung (Marcellina); Ludwig Eybisch (Curzio); Hildegard Weigel, Sigrid Rothermel (Bridesmaids).
[Oct. 27-29. Seinemeyer is listed in a handwritten document in the Dresden Opera Archive as being ill.]
[Oct. 29. Seinemeyer cancels a performance of Cosi fan tutte.]
Oct. 31. Staatsoper, Dresden. Der Rosenkavalier (Marschallin).Same cast as Aug. 23 except: Ludwig Ermold (Baron Ochs); Ida von Scheele-M�ller (Marianne); Ludwig Roth (Learned man); Klaus Hermanns (Animal trainer/Marschallin's servant).
Nov. 4. Staatsoper, Dresden. Manon Lescaut (Manon). Same cast as Sept. 12 except: Max Lorenz (Des Grieux).
Nov. 6. Staatsoper, Dresden. Der Freisch�tz (Agathe). Same cast as Jun. 9 except: Paul Sch�ffler (Ottokar); Willy Bader (Hermit); Heinrich Tessmer (Kilian); Ludwig Roth (Hunter); Hildegard Weigel (Bridesmaid).
Nov. 8. Vereinshaus, Dresden. Concert with Frieder Weissmann, piano. Seinemeyer sang "Du bist die Ruh'", "Die Stadt", and "Die Forelle" by Schubert, "Mondnacht", "Sch�ne Fremde", and "Proven�alisches Lied" by Schumann, "Auf dem Kirchhof", "Der Tod, das ist die k�hle Nacht", and "Meine Liebe ist gr�n" by Brahms, "Sie haben heut abend Gesellschaft" and "Ich stand in dunklen Tr�umen" by Hugo Wolf (it was the first Dresden performance of these Wolf songs), and "Tu che le vanit�" from Don Carlo.
Nov. 11. Staatsoper, Dresden. Die Meistersinger (Eva). Same cast as Feb. 2 except: Robert Burg (Fritz Kothner); Paul Zschokke (Ulrich Eisslinger); Klaus Hermanns (Augustin Moser). Conductor: Hermann Kutzschbach.
[Nov. 14. Seinemeyer cancels a rehearsal of Schubert's Stabat Mater.]
Nov. 16. Dresden. Schubert, Stabat Mater. With Max Hirzel, Ivar Andr�sen, Chorus of the Dresden Staatsoper, Dresden Staatskapelle. Also on the program were the overture to Rosamunde and the Unfinished Symphony. Conductor: Fritz Busch. Rehearsal of the concert in honor of the 100th anniversary of Schubert's death.
Nov. 19. Dresden. Schubert, Stabat Mater. With Max Hirzel, Ivar Andr�sen, Chorus of the Dresden Staatsoper, Dresden Staatskapelle. Also on the program were the overture to Rosamunde and the Unfinished Symphony. Conductor: Fritz Busch. Concert in honor of the 100th anniversary of Schubert's death.
Nov. 20. Staatsoper, Dresden. Die Weiberverschw�rung (Gr�fin Ludmilla); Waldemar Staegemann (Graf Heribert von L�denstein); Max Lorenz (Astolf von Reisenberg); Ludwig Eybisch (Garold von Nummen); Rudolf Schmalnauer (Friedrich von Trausdorf); Grete Nikisch (Helene); Helene Jung (Luitgarde); Elfriede Haberkorn (Camilla); Erna Berger (Isella); Heinrich Tessmer (Udolin). Conductor: Fritz Busch. Director: Otto Erhardt. Also on the program was a dance suite from Schubert's music, conducted by Kurt Striegler.
Nov. 21. Staatsoper, Dresden. La Forza del Destino [Die Macht des Schicksals] (Leonora). Same cast as March 20, 1926 except: Koloman Pataky (Alvaro); Ivar Andr�sen (Padre Guardiano); Adolf Schoepflin (Marquis di Calatrava); Elfriede Haberkorn (Preziosilla); Rudolf Schmalnauer (Alcade); Julius Puttlitz (Surgeon/Laienbruder); Sigrid Rothermel (Curra). Conductor: Kurt Striegler. Director: Waldemar Staegemann.
Nov. 24. Gebouw voor Kunsten en Wetenschappen, The Hague. Le Nozze di Figaro [Figaros Hochzeit] (Countess); Ludwig Ermold (Figaro); Lotte Sch�ne (Susanna); Herbert Janssen (Count); Maria Raydl (Cherubino); Gertrud Wentscher-Lehmann (Marcellina); Eduard Kandl (Bartolo); Leonhard Kistemann (Basilio); Bernhard Hackstein (Curzio); Odo Rueb (Antonio); Gertrud Stocks (Barbarina). Conductor: Egon Pollak. Director: Hans Strohbach. According to Leo Riemens, there were two performances.
Nov. 26. Staatsoper, Dresden. Die Weiberverschw�rung (Gr�fin Ludmilla). Same cast and program as Nov. 20.
Nov. 28. Staatsoper, Dresden. Der Rosenkavalier (Marschallin). Same cast as Aug. 23 except: Ludwig Ermold (Baron Ochs); Maria Rajdl (Sophie); Ludwig Eybisch (Faninal's major-domo/Landlord); Max Lorenz (Italian tenor); Ludwig Roth (Learned man); Hildegard Weigel (Modistin); Klaus Hermanns (Animal handler/Marschallin's servant).
[Nov. 29. Seinemeyer cancels a rehearsal.]
[Dec., date unknown. Dresden. Concert with Frieder Weissmann, piano. The concert included songs composed by Weissmann.]
[Dec., date unknown. Dresden. Concert with Elisa St�nzner, Bj�rn Tal�n, Robert Burg, and Ivar Andr�sen.]
[Dec. 1. Seinemeyer cancels a rehearsal.]
Dec. 2. Staatsoper, Dresden. Lohengrin (Elsa). Same cast as Feb. 19 except: Curt Taucher (Lohengrin); Willy Bader (King Heinrich); Hildegard Weigel, Sigrid Rothermel, Elfriede Haberkorn (Pages).
Dec. 6. Staatsoper, Dresden. Die Weiberverschw�rung (Gr�fin Ludmilla). Same cast as Nov. 20 except: Elfriede Haberkorn (Luitgarde); Ida Maeder (Camilla). The same dance suite was performed as on Nov. 20.
[According to a handwritten document in the Dresden Opera Archive, Seinemeyer was in Heidelberg on Dec. 7 and 8.]
Dec. 12. Staatsoper, Dresden. Die Weiberverschw�rung (Gr�fin Ludmilla). Same cast as Nov. 20. On a double bill with Gianni Schicchi, with the following cast: Friedrich Plaschke (Gianni Schicchi); Angela Kolniak (Lauretta); Irma Tervani (Zita); Mieczyslaw Salecki (Rinuccio); Hanns Lange (Gherardo); Grete Nikisch (Nella); Werner Scheinpflug (Gherardino); Willy Bader (Betto di Signa); Adolph Schoepflin (Simone); Rudolf Schmalnauer (Marco); Elfriede Haberkorn (La Ciesca); Robert Burg (Spinelloccio); Paul Sch�ffler (Amantino di Nicolao); Robert B�ssel (Pinellino); Julius Puttlitz (Guccio). Conductor: Fritz Busch. Director: Otto Erhardt.
Dec. 17. Staatsoper, Dresden. Der Barbier von Bagdad (Margiana); Ivar Andr�sen (Barbier); Curt Taucher (Nureddin); Helene Jung (Bostana); Heinrich Tessmer (Kadi); Robert Burg (Caliph); Rudolf Schmalnauer (First Muezzin); Mieczyslaw Salecki (Second Muezzin); Max Lorenz (Third Muezzin); Guglielmo Fazzini (Slave); Franz Hilscher (Motawackel). Conductor: Fritz Busch. Director: Otto Erhardt.
Dec. 19. Staatsoper, Dresden. Manon Lescaut (Manon). Same cast as Sept. 12 except: Paul Sch�ffler (Lescaut).
[Dec. 20-22. Seinemeyer is listed in a handwritten document in the Dresden Opera Archive as being ill.]
Dec. 23. Staatsoper, Dresden. La Forza del Destino [Die Macht des Schicksals] (Leonora). Same cast as March 20, 1926 except: Max Lorenz (Alvaro); Paul Sch�ffler (Carlo); Elfriede Haberkorn (Preziosilla); Julius Puttlitz (Surgeon/Laienbruder); Sigrid Rothermel (Curra). Conductor: Kurt Striegler. Director: Waldemar Staegemann.
Dec. 26. Staatsoper, Dresden. Die Meistersinger (Eva). Same cast as Feb. 2 except: Willy Bader (Pogner); Guglielmo Fazzini (Balthasar Zorn); Paul Zschokke (Ulrich Eisslinger); Klaus Hermanns (Augustin Moser); Max Osswald (David).
Dec. 27. Staatsoper, Dresden. Der Barbier von Bagdad (Margiana). Same cast as Dec. 17 except: Ludwig Eybisch (Kadi). Also on the program was a dance suite from Schubert's music, conducted by Kurt Striegler.
Dec. 29. Staatsoper, Dresden. Der Zigeunerbaron (Saffi). Same cast as Mar. 2 except: Max Hirzel (Sandor Barinkay); Robert B�ssel (Carnero); Erna St�ber (Sepi); Johanna Schwarz (Minna).
1929
[Early 1929, exact date unknown. Breslau. Concert.]
Jan. 1. Staatsoper, Dresden. Tannh�user (Elisabeth); Curt Taucher (Tannh�user); Robert Burg (Wolfram); Ivar Andr�sen (Landgraf Hermann); Eugenie Burkhardt (Venus); Max Lorenz (Walter); Ludwig Ermold (Biterolf); Hanns Lange (Heinrich); Robert B�ssel (Reinmar); Erna Berger (Shepherd); Sigrid Rothermel, Elsa Seiter, Alice Liebeskind, Gertrud Matthes (Pages). Conductor: Hermann Kutzschbach. Director: Otto Erhardt.
Jan. 4. Staatsoper, Dresden. Die Weiberverschw�rung (Gr�fin Ludmilla). Same cast as Nov. 20, 1928 except: Elfriede Haberkorn (Luitgarde); Ida Maeder (Camilla). Conductor: Ernst Richter. The same dance suite was performed as on Nov. 20, 1928.
Jan. 5. Staatsoper, Dresden. La Forza del Destino [Die Macht des Schicksals] (Leonora). Same cast as Mar. 20, 1926 except: Adolf Schoepflin (Marquis di Calatrava); Elfriede Haberkorn (Preziosilla); Julius Puttlitz (Surgeon/Laienbruder); Sigrid Rothermel (Curra). Conductor: Kurt Striegler. Director: Waldemar Staegemann.
Jan. 12. Staatsoper, Dresden. Der Zigeunerbaron (Saffi). Same cast as Mar. 2, 1928 except: Eduard Lichtenstein (Sandor Barinkay); Robert B�ssel (Carnero); Johanna Schwarz (Minna).
Jan. 14. Parlophon studio, Berlin. Recording session: "Ach, er ist�s, er hat mich gennant" (Faust, with Jaro Dworsky, Emanuel List), "O Herr, so la�e hier niederknien Margarethen" (Faust, with Emanuel List, chorus), "Hier ist der grauenvolle Ort" (Ballo in Maschera). Conductor: Frieder Weissmann.
[Jan. 17. Seinemeyer cancels a rehearsal of Pikowaja Dama [Queen of Spades].
Jan. 18. Staatsoper, Dresden. La Boh�me (Mimi); Tino Pattiera (Rodolfo); Robert Burg (Marcello); Julia R�hler (Musetta); Paul Sch�ffler (Schaunard); Willy Bader (Colline); Robert B�ssel (Bernard); Richard Ross (Parpignol); Hanns Lange (Alcindoro); Julius Puttlitz (Sergeant); Emil Piehler (Customs official). Conductor: Kurt Striegler. Director: Waldemar Staegemann.
Jan. 20. Staatsoper, Dresden. Lohengrin (Elsa). Same cast as Feb. 19, 1928 except: Adolf Schoepflin (King Heinrich); Rudolf Schmalnauer (Herald); Hildegard Weigel, Alice Liebeskind, Sigrid Rothermel, Elfriede Haberkorn (Pages).
Jan. 26. Staatsoper, Dresden. Pikowaja Dama [Queen of Spades] (Lisa); Tino Pattiera (Hermann); Friedrich Plaschke (Tomsky); Robert Burg (Yeletsky); Hanns Lange (Czekalinsky); Rudolf Schmalnauer (Ssurin); Heinrich Tessmer (Tschaplitzky); Robert B�ssel (Narumoff); Irma Tervani (Countess); Helene Jung (Pauline); Elfriede Haberkorn (Governess); Erna Berger (Mascha); Ludwig Eybisch (Master of Ceremonies); Fritz Schulze (Offiziersbursche). Conductor: Fritz Busch. Director: Otto Erhardt. According to Signale f�r die musikalische Welt, Mar. 27, 1929, Elisa St�nzner and Max Lorenz took over the roles of Lisa and Hermann in later performances.
Jan. 28. Rathaus, Dresden. Concert with the Richard-Wagner-Verband Deutscher Frauen. Seinemeyer sang a duet from Andrea Chenier with Tino Pattiera, and Sieglinde's narrative from Die Walk�re. Also on the program were: violinist Jan Dahmen and pianist Mona Dahman (music by Sinigaglia and Sarasate's "Zigeunerweisen"), Tino Pattiera and Paul Sch�ffler in a duet from La Forza del Destino [Die Macht des Schicksals], and Tino Pattiera in "Vorrei morir" by Tosti and "La donna � mobile" from Rigoletto. The accompanist for the singers was Rolf Schr�der.
[Jan. 28 and 29. Saarbr�cken. Concerts. Conductor: Felix Lederer. An announcement in the Allgemeine Musik-Zeitung of Jan. 25, 1929 said that Reger�s B�cklin-Suite and Janacek�s Sinfonietta would played at the concerts of Jan. 28 and 29, and that Seinemeyer would sing. But she cancelled because of illness (or commitments in Dresden?), and Helge Rosvaenge sang instead.]
Jan. 29. Staatsoper, Dresden. Pikowaja Dama [Queen of Spades] (Lisa). Same cast as Jan. 26 except: Sigrid Rothermel (Mascha).
Jan. 31. Staatsoper, Dresden. Pikowaja Dama [Queen of Spades] (Lisa). Same cast as Jan. 29.
Feb. 4. Staatsoper, Dresden. Pikowaja Dama [Queen of Spades] (Lisa). Same cast as Jan. 26 except: Ludwig Eybisch (Czekalinsky); Sigrid Rothermel (Mascha); Klaus Hermanns (Master of Ceremonies).
Feb. 6. Staatsoper, Dresden. Pikowaja Dama [Queen of Spades] (Lisa). Same cast as Jan. 29.
Feb. 8. Staatsoper, Dresden. La Forza del Destino [Die Macht des Schicksals] (Leonora). Same cast as Jan. 5 except: Paul Sch�ffler (Carlo).
Feb. 11. Staatsoper, Dresden. Pikowaja Dama [Queen of Spades] (Lisa). Same cast as Jan. 29 except that the conductor was Kurt Striegler.
Feb. 13. Staatsoper, Dresden. Tannh�user (Elisabeth). Same cast as Jan. 1 except: Adolf Schoepflin (Landgraf Hermann); Rudolf Schmalnauer (Biterolf); Julius Puttlitz (Reinmar).
Feb. 15. Parlophon studio, Berlin. Recording session: "Das ist sicher ein Kriegschiff" (Madama Butterfly, with Helene Jung), "Abends will ich schlafen geh�n" (H�nsel und Gretel, with Helene Jung), "Juchhei, nun ist die Hexe tot" (H�nsel und Gretel, with Helene Jung). Conductor: Frieder Weissmann.
[Feb. 17. Seinemeyer cancels a performance of Die Zauberfl�te.]
Feb. 19. Staatsoper, Dresden. Le Nozze di Figaro [Figaros Hochzeit] (Countess). Same cast as Feb. 14, 1928 except: Hildegard Weigel (Barbarina); Sigrid Rothermel (Bridesmaid). Conductor: Kurt Striegler.
Feb. 22. Plauen. Concert.
Feb. 26. Gewerbehaus, Dresden. Concert with Dresdner Philharmonie, Frieder Weissmann, conductor. Seinemeyer sang "Ahi! Questa latta rea, m'ha l'anima spezzata" from Le Cid, Aria of Ilara, "Alla dorata del natio mio suol" from Lo schiavo, and "Tu che le vanit�" from Don Carlo. Also on the program was pianist Paul Aron.
[Feb. 27-Mar. 1. Seinemeyer is listed in a handwritten document in the Dresden Opera Archive as being ill. She cancels rehearsals of Cosi fan tutte on Feb. 27 and Mar. 1.]
[Feb. 28. Seinemeyer cancels a performance of Lohengrin.]
Mar. 2. Staatsoper, Dresden. Cosi fan tutte (Fiordiligi). Same cast as Sept. 27, 1927. Sung in spite of indisposition.
Mar. 4. Staatsoper, Dresden. Der Zigeunerbaron (Saffi). Same cast as Jan. 12 except: Max Hirzel (Sandor Barinkay).
Mar. 5. Gewerbehaus, Dresden. Beethoven, Symphony No. 9 with Helene Jung, Max Hirzel, and Robert Burg. Conductor: Frieder Weissmann.
Mar. 6. Staatsoper, Dresden. Pikowaja Dama [Queen of Spades] (Lisa). Same cast as Jan. 26 excerpt: Max Lorenz (Hermann); Hildegard Weigel (Mascha).
[According to a handwritten document in the Dresden Opera Archive, Seinemeyer was in Mannheim from Mar. 8 to 10.]
Mar. 11. Staatsoper, Dresden. La Forza del Destino [Die Macht des Schicksals] (Leonora). Same cast as Jan. 5 except: Max Lorenz (Alvaro); Ivar Andr�sen (Padre Guardiano).
Mar. 18. Parlophon studio, Berlin. Recording session: "O lieb, so lang du lieben kannst" (Liszt), "Liebesfeier" (Weingartner), "Es blinkt der Tau" (Rubinstein), "Die Nacht" (Rubinstein). Conductor: Frieder Weissmann.
Mar. 24. Dresden. Beethoven, Symphony No. 9. Martha Adam, Anton Maria Topitz, Ivar Andr�sen, Dresdner Lehrergesangverein. Conductor: Fritz Busch.
Mar. 26. Staatsoper, Dresden. Le Nozze di Figaro [Figaros Hochzeit] (Countess); Ludwig Ermold (Figaro); Julia R�hler (Susanna); Paul Sch�ffler (Count); Angela Kolniak (Cherubino); Elfriede Haberkorn (Marcellina); Adolf Schoepflin (Bartolo); Hanns Lange (Basilio); Ludwig Eybisch (Curzio); Robert B�ssel (Antonio); Hildegard Weigel (Barbarina); Charlotte Schlenker, Sigrid Rothermel (Bridesmaids). Conductor: Kurt Striegler. Director: Waldemar Staegemann.
Apr. 1. Staatsoper, Dresden. Pikowaja Dama [Queen of Spades] (Lisa). Same cast as Mar. 6 except that the conductor was Kurt Striegler.
Apr. 3. Staatsoper, Dresden. La Forza del Destino [Die Macht des Schicksals] (Leonora). Same cast as Mar. 11 except: Paul Sch�ffler (Carlo).
Apr. 4. Staatsoper, Dresden. Der Zigeunerbaron (Saffi).
Apr. 6. Staatsoper, Dresden. Aida (Aida); Max Hirzel (Radames); Martha Fuchs (Amneris); Friedrich Plaschke (Amonasro); Adolf Schoepflin (Ramfis); Ivar Andr�sen (King of Egypt); Hanns Lange (Messenger); Erna Berger (Priestess); Stefanie Oberhel (Slave). Conductor: Hermann Kutzschbach. Director: Waldemar Staegemann.
[Apr. 7. Seinemeyer cancels a performance of Der Rosenkavalier. Charlotte Viereck sings the role of the Marschallin.]
Apr. 9. Staatsoper, Dresden. Cosi fan tutte (Fiordiligi). Same cast as Sept. 27, 1927.
Apr. 10. Staatsoper, Dresden. Pikowaja Dama [Queen of Spades] (Lisa). Same cast as Mar. 6 except: Klaus Hermanns (Master of ceremonies). Conductor: Kurt Striegler.
Apr. 12. Staatsoper, Dresden. Le Nozze di Figaro [Figaros Hochzeit] (Countess). Same cast as Mar. 26 except: Waldemar Staegemann (Count); Grete Nikisch (Cherubino); Helene Jung (Marcellina); Heinrich Tessmer (Curzio); Erna Berger (Barbarina). Conductor: Hermann Kutzschbach.
[Apr. 14. Seinemeyer cancels a performance of Lohengrin.]
Apr. 16. Staatsoper, Dresden. La Forza del Destino [Die Macht des Schicksals] (Leonora). Same cast as Apr. 3 except: Hanns Lange (Trabuco).
[Apr. 19-21. Seinemeyer is listed in a handwritten document in the Dresden Opera Archive as being ill.]
Apr. 24. Parlophon studio, Berlin. Recording session: Siegmund/Sieglinde duet (Die Walk�re, with Curt Taucher; the part beginning with "War W�lse dein Vater" is unpublished). Conductor: Frieder Weissmann.
Apr. 28. Staatsoper, Dresden. Pikowaja Dama [Queen of Spades] (Lisa). Same cast as Jan. 26 except: Ludwig Eybisch (Tschaplitzky); Hildegard Weigel (Mascha); Klaus Hermanns (Master of ceremonies). Conductor: Kurt Striegler.
Apr. 30. Staatsoper, Dresden. Andrea Ch�nier (Maddalena). Same cast as Apr. 16, 1928 except: Hildegard Weigel (Bersi); Hanns Lange (Abbot); Rudolf Schmalnauer (Fouquier-Tinville). Director: Robert Bossbart.
May 3. Parlophon studio, Berlin. Recording session: "Wie aus der Ferne" (Der fliegende Holl�nder, with Robert Burg; unpublished). Conductor: Frieder Weissmann.
May 9. Covent Garden, London. Die Walk�re (Sieglinde); Lauritz Melchior (Siegmund); Alexander Kipnis (Hunding); Wilhelm Fassbinder (Wotan); Frida Leider (Br�nnhilde); Maria Olczewska (Fricka); Gladys Cole (Gerhilde); May Busby (Ortlinde); Anny Andrassy (Waltraute); Constance Willis (Schwertleite); Odette de Foras (Helmwige); Gladys Palmer (Siegrune); Mary Jarred (Grimgerde); Evelyn Arden (Rossweisse). Conductor: Robert Heger.
May 10. Covent Garden, London. Lohengrin (Elsa); Erik Enderlein (Lohengrin); Maria Olczewska (Ortrud); Ivar Andr�sen (Heinrich); Wilhelm Fassbinder (Telramund); Viktor Madin (Herald); Patricia Guest; Pauline Grey; Mollie Street; Ella Bailey (Pages). Conductor: Robert Heger. Act 1 of this performance was broadcast on the BBC.
May 16. Covent Garden, London. Die Meistersinger (Eva); Friedrich Schorr (Sachs); Fritz Wolff (Walther); Alexander Kipnis (Pogner); Eduard Habich (Beckmesser); Heinrich Tessmer (Vogelgesang); William Anderson (Nachtigall); Roy Henderson (Kothner); Kennedy McKenna (Zorn); Dennis Noble (Eisslinger); Osmund Davis (Moser); Herbert Simmonds (Ortel); Franklyn Kelsey (Schwarz); Frederick Woodhouse (Foltz); Hans Clemens (David); Philip Bertram (Night Watchman); Anny Andrassy (Magdalene). Conductor: Bruno Walter.
May 20. Covent Garden, London. Die Meistersinger (Eva). Same cast as May 16, except: Rudolf Bockelmann (Sachs); Ivar Andr�sen (Pogner); Viktor Madin (Kothner).
May 21. Covent Garden, London. Die Walk�re (Sieglinde); Walter Widdop (Siegmund); Alexander Kipnis (Hunding); Rudolf Bockelmann (Wotan); Florence Austral (Br�nnhilde); Maria Olczewska (Fricka); Gladys Cole (Gerhilde); May Busby (Ortlinde); Anny Andrassy (Waltraute); Constance Willis (Schwertleite); Odette de Foras (Helmwige); Gladys Palmer (Siegrune); Mary Jarred (Grimgerde); Evelyn Arden (Rossweisse). Conductor: Albert Coates. Act 3 of this performance was supposed to be broadcast on the BBC, but the broadcast was cancelled at the last minute, because the contract of one of the singers (probably Bockelmann) did not allow it.
May 31. Staatsoper, Dresden. Der Freisch�tz (Agathe); Max Hirzel (Max); Paul Sch�ffler (Ottokar); Ludwig Ermold (Kuno); Erna Berger (�nnchen); Adolf Schoepflin (Kaspar); Julius Puttlitz (Samiel); Ivar Andr�sen (Hermit); Hanns Lange (Kilian); Ludwig Roth, Julius Hahn, Klaus Hermanns (Hunters); Hildegard Weigel (Bridesmaid). Conductor: Fritz Busch. Director: Waldemar Staegemann.
Jun. 2. Staatsoper, Dresden. Die Meistersinger (Eva). Same cast as Feb. 2, 1928 except: Curt Taucher (Walther); Paul Zschokke (Balthasar Zorn); Rudolf Dittrich (Ulrich Eisslinger); Klaus Hermanns (Augustin Moser); Edwin Heyer (Hermann Ortel); Helene Jung (Magdalene; substituting for Elfriede Haberkorn).
Jun. 5. Staatsoper, Dresden. Cosi fan tutte (Fiordiligi). Same cast as Sept. 27, 1927.
[Jun. 6. Seinemeyer cancels a rehearsal of Cosi fan tutte.]
Jun. 7. Staatsoper, Dresden. Andrea Ch�nier (Maddalena). Same cast as Apr. 16, 1928 except: Rudolf Schmalnauer (Fouquier-Tinville). Director: Robert Bossbart.
Jun. 9. Staatsoper, Dresden. Der Rosenkavalier (Marschallin). Same cast as Aug. 23, 1928 except: Ludwig Ermold (Baron Ochs); Ludwig Eybisch (Faninal's major-domo); Max Lorenz (Italian tenor); Klaus Hermanns (Animal handler/Marschallin's servant); Ludwig Roth (Waiter). This was Seinemeyer�s very last performance.
[Seinemeyer is listed on the programs as being ill from Jun. 12-17. According to a handwritten document in the Dresden Opera Archive, she was ill from Jun.10 to Jul. 7.]
[Jun. 19. Seinemeyer is scheduled to sing the Countess in Le Nozze di Figaro [Figaros Hochzeit], but cancels because of illness.]
[Jun. 22. Seinemeyer cancels a performance of La Forza del Destino [Die Macht des Schicksals.]
Periodicals
Allgemeine Musik-Zeitung,1925-1929 (I've been looking through these slowly.)
Baltimore American, Jan.-Feb., 1923.
Baltimore Sun, Jan.-Feb., Apr. 1923.
Berliner Tageblatt (I've been looking through these very slowly; right now I'm on the Apr. 1918 issues.)
Boston Globe, Apr. 1923.
Brooklyn Eagle, Feb.-Apr. 1923.
Buffalo News, May 1923.
Cleveland Plain Dealer, May 1923.
Daily Telegraph (London), May 1929.
Detroit Free Press, Apr. 1923.
Detroit News, Apr. 1923.
Deutsches B�hnen-Jahrbuch, 1929-1930.
Dresdner Anzeiger, Dec. 21, 1924-Mar. 26, 1925, Dec. 18, 1925-Mar. 20, 1926, Dec. 18, 1926-Jan. 12, 1927.
Manchester Guardian, May 1929.
Musical Courier, 1923.
Neue freie Presse (Vienna), Jun. 1927.
New York Evening Post, Feb.-Apr., 1923.
New York Herald, Feb.-Apr., 1923.
New York Sun, Feb.-Apr., 1923.
New York Times, Jan.-Apr., 1923.
New York Tribune, Feb.-Apr., 1923.
Philadelphia Inquirer, Feb., Apr. 1923.
Pittsburgh Post, Apr. 1923.
Signale f�r die musikalische Welt, 1929.
Times (London), Apr.-May, 1929.
Vossische Zeitung (Berlin), Jul.-Sept. 1918.
Wiener Zeitung, Jun. 1927.
Zeitschrift f�r Musik, 1925-1929.
Books and articles
Annalen van de Opera-Gezelschappen in Nederland, 1886-1995. [Amsterdam]: Theater Instituut Nederland, 1996.
Beaumont, Antony. Busoni the Composer. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1985. (For the Doktor Faust cast list).
Busch, Fritz. Pages from a Musician�s Life. London: Hogarth Press, 1953.
Caama�o, Roberto. La historia del Teatro Col�n 1908-1968, vol. II. Buenos Aires: Editorial Cinetea, 1969.
Dopheide, Bernhard. Fritz Busch: Sein Leben und Wirken in Deutschland mit einem Ausblick auf die Zeit seiner Emigration. Tutzing: Hans Schneider, 1970.
Emmons, Shirlee. Tristanissimo. New York: Schirmer, 1990. (For the Nov. 19, 1924 Parsifal performance with Melchior).
Erhardt, Otto. "Die Hauptwerke des Spielplans." In: Opernfestspiele Dresden 1928. Dresden: Verlag H. Molitor & Co., 1928.
Guardia, Ernesto de la, and Roberto Herrera. El arte lirico en el Teatro Col�n. Buenos Aires: Editores Zea y Tejero, 1933.
Hochmuth, Michael. Chronik der Dresdner Oper. Hamburg: Verlag Dr. Kovac, 1998.
H�slinger, Clemens. Notes to CD set The Art of Meta Seinemeyer. Lebendige Vergangenheit 89402.
H�ntsch, Winfried. Opernmetropole Dresden. Leipzig: Verlag der Kunst, 1996.
Krause, Ernst. "Ein Dorado f�r Urauff�hrungen: Von Ernst von Schuch bis zu Karl B�hm." In: 300 Jahre Dresdner Staatstheater. Berlin: Henschelverlag, 1967.
Luther, Einhard. Notes to CD set Waldoper Zoppot: Das Bayreuth des Nordens und seine S�nger. Lebendige Vergangenheit 89406.
Matera, J. Hector, ed. El Teatro Col�n: Cincuenta A�os de Gloria, 1908-1958. Buenos Aires: J. Hector Matera, 1958.
Mautner, Hendrikje. Aus Kitsch wird Kunst: Zur Bedeutung Franz Werfels f�r die deutsche "Verdi-Renaissance". Schliengen: Edition Argus, 2000. (For the Forza del Destino cast list).
Meyer zu Heringdof, Detlef. Das Charlottenburger Opernhaus von 1912 bis 1961. Berlin: Deutsche Oper, 1988.
Muck, Peter. Einhundert Jahre Berliner Philharmonisches Orchester. Dritter Band. Tutzing, 1982.
Riemens, Leo. Notes to Meta Seinemeyer, Rococo LP 5218.
Rosenthal, Harold. Two Centuries of Opera at Covent Garden. London: Putnam, 1958.
Schindler, Agata. Dresdner Liste: Musikstadt Dresden und nationalsozialistische Judenverfolgung 1933-1945 in Wort und Bild. Dresden, 2003. (For the Feb. 26, 1929 concert with pianist Paul Aron.)
Valenti Ferro, Enzo. Las Voces: Teatro Col�n, 1908-1982. Buenos Aires: Ediciones de Arte Gaglianone, 1983.
Wahl, Horst. "Erinnerungen an Meta Seinemeyer." With discography by Floris Juynboll. In: Stimmen, die um die Welt gingen, No. 23, March 1989, p. 1-29.
Wearing, J. P. (ed.) The London Stage, 1920-1929: A Calendar of Plays and Players. Metuchen, N.J.; London: Scarecrow Press, 1984.
Wenzel, Joachim E. Geschichte der Hamburger Oper 1678-1978. Hamburg: Hamburgische Staatsoper, 1978. This book makes no mention of Seinemeyer, indicating that it is very unlikely that Seinemeyer sang at the Hamburg Opera.
Other
Collection assembled by Hertha Seinemeyer (Seinemeyer�s sister-in-law), which is now in my possession.
Handwritten document in the Dresden Opera Archive, listing Seinemeyer's performances for the 1928-29 season, as well as her absences and cancellations.
Websites
http://www.operissimo.com/ I have used this site to look up all the singers whose first names were not given in the original sources. So, if a singer is listed with no first name in this chronology, he or she does not have an entry at operissimo.com.
http://www.rgrossmusicautograph.com/ (Roger Gross, Ltd.) For the cast of the Jul. 30, 1926 Tannh�user performance in Buenos Aires.
Acknowledgments
I owe a huge debt of gratitude to Matthias Beutlich of Dresden, who looked through all the Dresden Opera programs from 1924-1929. Thanks to his work, I now have the dates of all of Seinemeyer's performances in Dresden. I also wish to thank Brigitte Euler, archivist of the Dresden Opera, for giving him permission to look through the archive's collection of programs, which is usually inaccessible to visitors, and for all her help during my visit to Dresden. Many thanks also to Brigitte Eckhardt of the Sächsische Landesbibliothek, Dresden, who was extremely helpful in finding microfilms of Dresden newspapers. Many thanks to Charles Mintzer, who provided me with information relating to Seinemeyer�s Berlin performances, from a handwritten journal by Heinz Bernhardt, who attended performances at one of Berlin�s four opera houses almost every night during the 1920s. He has also sent me copies of Charles Jahant�s research notes on Seinemeyer, which provide valuable information on her roles and the places where she sang. Thanks to Russ Hornbeck for providing me with additional information about Seinemeyer�s performances in Berlin. Thanks also to Georg Kasch and Dagmar Walach of the Freie Universit�t Berlin, to Ulrich Dahmen, and to Peter Sommeregger for sending me copies of programs, to Axel Schr�der of the Landesarchiv Berlin for information on Seinemeyer's appearances at the Berlin Staatsoper, to Cesar A. Dillon for information on Seinemeyer's appearances in Buenos Aires, and to Einhard Luther for the dates of Seinemeyer's performances in Zoppot.
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