[Met Concert or Gala] CID:62480



Special Matinee
Metropolitan Opera House, Thu, March 16, 1916 Matinee





Special Matinee



Metropolitan Opera House
March 16, 1916 Matinee
Emergency Fund Benefit

SPECIAL MATINEE
For the benefit of the Metropolitan Opera Emergency Fund

Il Trovatore: Act II, Scene 1

Manrico.................Giovanni Martinelli
Azucena.................Margarete Ober
Ruiz....................Pietro Audisio
Gypsy...................Bernard Bégué
Metropolitan Opera Chorus

Conductor...............Giorgio Polacco

Director................Jules Speck
Set designer............Mario Sala
Set designer............James Fox


Lohengrin: Act I

Lohengrin...............Jacques Urlus
Elsa....................Johanna Gadski
Ortrud..................Louise Homer
Telramund...............Hermann Weil
King Heinrich...........Carl Braun
Herald..................Carl Schlegel
Metropolitan Opera Chorus

Conductor...............Artur Bodanzky

Director................Jan Heythekker
Set designer............Kautsky & Rottonara Brothers
Costume designer........Blaschke & Cie


Pagliacci: Act I

Nedda...................Ida Cajatti
Canio...................Enrico Caruso
Tonio...................Giuseppe De Luca
Silvio..................Riccardo Tegani
Beppe...................Angelo Badà
Metropolitan Opera Chorus

Conductor...............Gaetano Bavagnoli

Director................Jules Speck


Borodin: Prince Igor: Polovtsian Dances

First Woman.............Rosina Galli
Warrior Chief...........Giuseppe Bonfiglio
Corps de Ballet
Metropolitan Opera Chorus

Conductor...............Giorgio Polacco

Designer................unknown
Choreographer...........Ottokar Bartik

[This was the first time the company presented the Polovtsian Dances from Prince Igor independent of Borodin's opera. The choreography was by Bartik and the design, unattributed, copied the original production at the Maryinsky Theater in St. Petersburg. Two weeks later, on April 3, Diaghilev's visiting Ballets Russes introduced another staging of the Polovtsian Dances, designed by Nicholas Roerich and choreographed by Michel Fokine.]





This was the first time the company presented the Polovtsian Dances from Prince Igor independent of Borodin's opera. The choreography was by Bartik and the design, unattributed, copied the original production at the Maryinsky Theater in St. Petersburg. Two weeks later, on April 3, Diaghilev's visiting Ballets Russes introduced another staging of the Polovtsian Dances, designed by Nicholas Roerich and choreographed by Michel Fokine.

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