Germaine Feraldy (soprano):
Je suis tout etourdie (Act 1)
Germaine Feraldy (soprano),
Joseph Rogatchewsky (tenor) : Duet —Finale (Act 1)
Joseph Rogatchewsky (tenor) :
Dream Song (Act 2)
Germaine Feraldy (soprano) and Chorus of the Opera - Comique (Paris): Gavotte: Obeissons quand leur voix appelle (Act 3)
Germaine Feraldy (soprano),
Joseph Rogatchewsky (tenor), and Chorus of the Opera - Comique (Paris): Death of Manon (Act 5)

by Edith Walton

King Ludwig, Musician and Madman
Count Alfred A. Hessenstein
This is the third of Count Hessenstein's four talks in this series. He gives an arresting picture of Ludwig, the eighteen-year-old king, walking like a young god, tall and slender, beside his father Maximilian's coffin. This timid young man, in whom the people of Munich saw a fairy-tale prince, became in four weeks an imperious young monarch. But the pith of the story is that he became again like a little frightened child when he first met Richard Wagner. Listeners will hear about the resentment of Franz Lenbach , the ' painter of kings ', when King Ludwig changed Munich, the city of painters, into a city of musicians. Count Hessenstein will trace the story of King Ludwig's life and reign ; his eccentricities ; his loneliness, after Wagner's death, when he became the scandal of the world.