1891 Opera Hamburg 18-05-1891
Chronology: Year 1891 Location: Stadttheater Program: Tannhauser Conductor: Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) Orchestra: Hamburg Stadttheater Orchestra Stage design: Notes:
1891 Opera Hamburg 29-03-1891
Chronology: Year 1891 Location: Stadttheater Program: Tannhauser Conductor: Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) Orchestra: Hamburg Stadttheater Orchestra Stage design: Notes:
1890 Opera Budapest 16-12-1890
Chronology: Year 1890 Location: Budapest Opera House Program: Don Giovanni Conductor: Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) Orchestra: Budapest Opera House Orchestra Stage design: Notes: Brahms asks to meet Mahler. Johannes Brahms (1833-1897), then 57 years old and already an exalted musician, attends the Budapest opera where he is so pleased with the work, that he demands to be introduced to the […]
1890 Opera Budapest 06-09-1890
Chronology: Year 1890 Location: Budapest Opera House Program: Don Giovanni Conductor: Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) Orchestra: Budapest Opera House Orchestra Stage design: Notes: In Budapest Gustav Mahler met Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) for the first time, who attended Mahler’s performance of Don Giovanni and was so impressed that years later he championed Mahler’s appointment as director of the Vienna State Opera
1889 Opera Budapest 27-01-1889
Chronology: Year 1889 Location: Budapest Opera House Program: Das Rheingold Conductor: Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) Orchestra: Budapest Opera House Orchestra Stage design: Notes: Arabella Cillagi (1861-1918)
1889 Opera Budapest 26-01-1889
Chronology: Year 1889 Location: Budapest Opera House Program: Das Rheingold Conductor: Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) Orchestra: Budapest Opera House Orchestra Stage design: Notes: Shortly after the music begins a fire starts in the prompter’s box. Mahler is forced to stop the music as firemen douse the flames. 30 minutes later the performance resumes. At the end the audience is ecstatic, both […]
1887 Opera Leipzig 13-11-1887
Chronology: Year 1887 Location: Neues Theater Program: Tannhauser Conductor: Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) Orchestra: Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra (LGO) Stage design: Notes:
1886 Opera Leipzig 03-08-1886
Chronology: Year 1886 Location: Neues Theater Program: Lohengrin Conductor: Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) Orchestra: Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra (LGO) Stage design: Notes:
1885 Opera Prague 20-12-1885
Chronology: Year 1885. Location: Koniglich Deutsches Landestheater (Royal German Theatre). Program: Die Walkure. Conductor: Gustav Mahler (1860-1911). Orchestra: Orchestra of the Koniglich Deutsches Landestheater. Stage design: Review in Prager Tagblatt 19-12-1885. General rehearsal. Prager Tagblatt 22-12-1885 by Carl Tobisch. Review in Bohemia 23-12-1885 by Adalbert Kulhanek Review in Prager Zeitung 23-12-1886 by Julius Steinberg
1885 Opera Prague 19-12-1885
Chronology: Year 1885. Location: Koniglich Deutsches Landestheater (Royal German Theatre). Program: Das Rheingold. Conductor: Gustav Mahler (1860-1911). Orchestra: Orchestra of the Koniglich Deutsches Landestheater. Stage design: Review in Prager Tagblatt 18-12-1885. General rehearsal. Review in Bohemia 19-12-1885 by Adalbert Kulhanek Review in Bohemia 22-12-1885 by Adalbert Kulhanek Review in Prager Zeitung 22-12-1886 by Julius Steinberg