[Met Performance] CID:97540



Lucia di Lammermoor
Metropolitan Opera House, Sat, December 10, 1927




Lucia di Lammermoor (138)
Gaetano Donizetti | Salvadore Cammarano
Lucia
Louise Lerch

Edgardo
Frederick Jagel

Enrico
Giuseppe De Luca

Raimondo
Ezio Pinza

Normanno
Giordano Paltrinieri

Alisa
Minnie Egener

Arturo
Alfio Tedesco


Conductor
Vincenzo Bellezza


Director
Armando Agnini

Set Designer
James Fox

Costume Designer
Mathilde Castel-Bert





Lucia di Lammermoor received three performances this season.

Review 1:

Review in the New York Tribune

LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR

It was Saturday at the opera and the home folks all were there - in this case the home folks from Allentown Pa. to see and hear their Louise Lerch go mad with reservations. Miss Lerch was singing Lucia for the first time. Brooklyn and Long Island also sent a joint delegation. Frederick Jagel as Edgar explained this attention. The rest of the audience came to hear Donizetti which was more to the point, for the illogical plot is unimportant when revealed in juxtaposition with those enduring melodies.

It was a performance of rare good taste.. The sight of two young people -both on and off the stage - spinning out the thread of a romantic story, unhampered by any discord of personality or physical appearance was heartening to those who like their "Lucia" in small doses. The singing on the whole was an achievement. Making all reasonable allowances for nervousness and unfamiliarity with the role, it cannot be said that Miss Lerch always struck her high notes exactly in the center, nor was she free from a noticeable vibrato the middle register. Mr. Jagel, once his voice "warmed" after a cold, monotonous duet in the second act, sang with ease and a fine sense of drama. In the "Il dolce suono" Miss Lerch seemed a little too reserved to be quite mad, and her final throat-straining treble was a shade flat.

Later in the evening we learned that Miss Lerch had been ill three days at her home, No. 17 West 71st Street, but had insisted upon singing. De Luca sang a polished, albeit a properly furious Henry Ashton. The artistic spectacle of several brawny Scotsmen - all singing out their woes in Italian was less apparent than in past performances, possibly because of the conducting of Mr. Bellezza.



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