The best that has been done in the Wagnerian line belongs to Humperdinck.
[Footnote: "Der Rosenkavalier" had its first American production at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York, on December 9, 1913, the cast being as follows:-- Feldmarschallin Furstin Werdenberg............

Frieda Hempel Baron Ochs auf Lerchenau......................

Otto Goritz Octavian, genannt Quinquin....................

Margarete Ober Herr von Faninal..............................

Hermann Weil Sophie, seine Tochter.........................