[Met Performance] CID:79410



Il Barbiere di Siviglia
Metropolitan Opera House, Fri, December 16, 1921 Matinee





Il Barbiere di Siviglia (112)
Gioachino Rossini | Cesare Sterbini
Figaro
Giuseppe De Luca

Rosina
Nina Morgana

Count Almaviva
Mario Chamlee

Dr. Bartolo
Pompilio Malatesta

Don Basilio
José Mardones

Berta
Louise Bérat

Fiorello
Vincenzo Reschiglian

Sergeant
Pietro Audisio


Conductor
Gennaro Papi


Director
Armando Agnini

Set Designer
Mario Sala





Il Barbiere di Siviglia received seven performances this season.
In the Lesson Scene Morgana sang Ô légère hirondelle from Mireille.

Review 1:

Review of Oscar Thompson in Musical America

'The Barber,' Sans Ruffo

Like "Ernani," the season's first "Barber of Seville" arrived without its intended star, the big-voiced Titta Ruffo, who was announced for the rôle of the mercurial Figaro. When Friday afternoon's audience reached the doors of the Metropolitan, it was confronted with placards announcing that the baritone's physician again had enjoined him not to sing. Into the breach stepped the Metropolitan's usual Figaro, Giuseppe de Luca, who sang with his familiar glibness and zest, and pranced through the old Rossini comedy with the requisite drollery and gaiety. Mario Chamlee, appearing as Almaviva for the first time in New York, sang much of the music delightfully, with a measure of flexibility beyond that ordinarily expected of a voice of his type. A fine tenor, this young American, and one who will go far if he will be content not to push or drive his upper tones. His mezza-voce in "The Barber" was of lovely quality, Nina Morgana, as Rosina, sang prettily, if at times imperfectly in bravura passages. In the lesson scene her interpolation was the Waltz from "Mireille." Jose Mardones was a humorous and vocally orotund Basilio and Malatesta a farcical Bartolo. Louise Berat, Vincenzo Reschiglian and Pietro Audisio completed the cast. Mr. Papi conducted with no lack of vim. The performance was a benefit for the Greenwich House Music School.



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