[Met Performance] CID:82210



La Traviata
Metropolitan Opera House, Thu, November 30, 1922

Debut : Italo Picchi




La Traviata (116)
Giuseppe Verdi | Francesco Maria Piave
Violetta
Lucrezia Bori

Alfredo
Beniamino Gigli

Germont
Giuseppe Danise

Flora
Minnie Egener

Gastone
Angelo Badà

Baron Douphol
Millo Picco

Marquis D'Obigny
Louis D'Angelo

Dr. Grenvil
Italo Picchi [Debut]

Annina
Grace Anthony

Dance
Giuseppe Bonfiglio

Dance
Rosina Galli

Dance
Florence Rudolph


Conductor
Roberto Moranzoni







Review 1:

Review of Oscar Thompson in Musical America

A Winsome "Traviata"

Altogether winsome was Lucrezia Bori in "Traviata," sung for the first time this season at the Metropolitan Thursday evening. Miss Bori had appeared in the part, at an earlier performance in Brooklyn, but this was her first Violetta in New York. To say that she achieved bravura phrases with the ease and tonal velvet of some of her predecessors in the role, would be an exaggeration. This music was intended for the voice and style of a Patti, a Melba or a Sembrich rather than a lyric soprano like Miss Bori. But if she dispensed with some skyrocketing embellishments and achieved others with a touch of strain, she was pictorially and dramatically the most attractive Violetta of recent memory. Moreover, she sang the more sustained passages of the music very beautifully. Her scene with the elder Germont and her death scene were unusually convincing.

Beniamino Gigli sang the music of Alfredo with much beauty of tone when he did not try to inject too much of pathos into his voice, and Giuseppe Danise was a sympathetic and vocally rich Germont. Others in the cast were Minnie Egener, Grace Anthony, Millo Picco, Louis D'Angelo and Italo Picchi, the latter making his Metropolitan debut in the minor role of The Doctor. His voice disclosed a tremolo, but he gave evidences of excellent routine. Rosina Galli, Giuseppe Bonfiglio and Florence McNally danced in the third act divertissement with the ballet. Roberto Moranzoni (not Giuseppe Bamboschek, whose name appeared on the program) conducted. The performance was a smooth and satisfying one.



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