[Met Performance] CID:91310



Cavalleria Rusticana
Pagliacci
Metropolitan Opera House, Thu, November 26, 1925




Cavalleria Rusticana (235)
Pietro Mascagni | Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti, Guido Menasci
Santuzza
Maria Jeritza

Turiddu
Armand Tokatyan

Lola
Ina Bourskaya

Alfio
Mario Basiola

Mamma Lucia
Grace Anthony


Conductor
Gennaro Papi


Pagliacci (243)
Ruggero Leoncavallo | Ruggero Leoncavallo
Nedda
Lucrezia Bori

Canio
Giovanni Martinelli

Tonio
Giuseppe De Luca

Silvio
Lawrence Tibbett

Beppe
Giordano Paltrinieri


Conductor
Gennaro Papi







Review 1:

Review signed B. E. in Musical America

Double bills seem likely to reach a new total this season at the Metropolitan because of the number of short works among the dozen novelties promised. But no amount of new combination seems to interfere seriously with the linking of "Cavalleria Rusticana" and "Pagliacci," which may jointly claim the distinction of setting the fashion for the others to follow. Thanksgiving night saw them in tandem for the second time this season, each with its own cast of favorite singers, but with Gennaro Papi conducting both works.

Maria Jeritza gave the luster of her personality to the highly emotional role of Santuzza, sang and acted with much intensity, and rolled down the steps with her accustomed virtuosity. Armand Tokatyan was a lyrical Turiddu, Mme. Bourskaya a competent Lola, and the new baritone, Mario Basiola, an Alfio who could sing as well as crack a whip. Grace Anthony completed the cast as Mamma Lucia.

The "Pagliacci" cast was an entirely familiar one, with Giovanni Martinelli as a thrilling Canio, Lucrezia Bori as a Nedda worth fighting over; Giuseppe De Luca as a Tonio who could be humorous as well as sinister, Lawrence Tibbett as a Silvio who not only looked young but was, and Giordano Paltrinieri, the only rival Angelo Bada has as the opera house's chief indispensable, a harlequinading Beppe. As an aftermath for turkey, it was a desert crammed with high notes of the sort that make the railbirds consider Garcia a more important figure in American history than Columbus, De Soto, Frobisher and the whole band of Pilgrim fathers.



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