Photographs from the J. Warren Perry Collection
Subject: Wagner's Das Rheingold
Location: Metropolitan Opera, New York
Principals: Hans Hotter, Wotan; Jarmila Novotna, Freia; Jerome Hines, Fasolt; Dezso Ernster, Fafner; Margaret Harshaw, Fricka; Karin Branzell, Erda; Fritz Stiedry, conductor; Mary Percy Schenck, costume design; Lee Simonson, set design; Herbert Graf, director.
Date: January 27, 1951
Photographer: Louis Mélançon


