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[Met Performance] CID:103230



La Gioconda
Metropolitan Opera House, Fri, November 15, 1929 Matinee










Review 1:

Review by Olin Downes in the New York Times:

Gladys Swarthout was cordially greeted in her first operatic role here at yesterday's Metropolitan matinee of "La Gioconda." Miss Swarthout, a native of Kansas City, had appeared in the West with the Chicago Civic and Ravinia Park companies, and had sung in a Sunday opera concert on Broadway as well as the Metropolitan's recent performance of "The Sunken Bell" in Philadelphia.

She showed yesterday, as La Cieca, a voice of good quality, depth and volume in the blind mother's air "Voce di donna," and acted the character with intelligent sympathy.

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Met careers

• Tullio Serafin [Conductor]
• Leonora Corona [La Gioconda]
• Beniamino Gigli [Enzo]
• Julia Claussen [Laura]
• Mario Basiola [Barnaba]
• Ezio Pinza [Alvise]
• Gladys Swarthout [La Cieca]
• Alfredo Gandolfi [Singer/Zuàne]
• Giordano Paltrinieri [Isèpo/Singer]
• Louis D'Angelo [Monk]
• Millo Picco [Steersman]