[Met Performance] CID:97710



L'Africaine
Metropolitan Opera House, Sat, December 24, 1927 Matinee



In Italian



L'Africaine (51)
Giacomo Meyerbeer | Eugène Scribe
Sélika
Rosa Ponselle

Vasco de Gama
Beniamino Gigli

Inès
Louise Lerch

Nélusko
Giuseppe Danise

Pedro
Pavel Ludikar

Diégo
Paolo Ananian

Alvar
Angelo Badà

Grand Inquisitor/High Priest
Ezio Pinza

Anna
Dorothea Flexer

Usher
Vincenzo Reschiglian

Officer
Max Altglass


Conductor
Tullio Serafin







Review 1:

Review signed M. W. in the New York Tribune

Rosa Ponselle and Gigli Are Heard in 'L'Africana'

Serafin Conducts Meyerbeer Opera at the Metropolitan

The opera matinee yesterday at the Metropolitan was "L'Africana" with Rosa Ponselle and Beniamino Gigli in the stellar roles. Miss Lerch sang Ines. Mr. Danise was Nelusko, and others in the cast were: Miss Flexer, and Messrs. Ludikar, Ananian, Bada, Pinza, Reschiglian, and Altglass. Mr. Serafin conducted. Miss Ponselle has never been in better voice and contrived to carry some of the regal glamour of "Norma" over into this less exacting portrayal.



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