[Met Concert or Gala] CID:118770



Gala Concert
Metropolitan Opera House, Sun, February 16, 1936




Gala Concert



Metropolitan Opera House
February 16, 1936

GALA CONCERT

Rimsky-Korsakov: Russian Easter Overture

Faust: Soldiers' Chorus
Metropolitan Opera Chorus

Faust: Vous qui faites l'endormie (Serenade)
Chase Baromeo

Faust: Que voulez-vous messieurs
Joseph Bentonelli
Désiré Defrère
Chase Baromeo

Faust: Death of Valentin
Charlotte Symons
Helen Olheim
Désiré Defrère

La Juive: Rachel quand du Seigneur
Frederick Jagel

Carmen: Je dis que rien ne m'épouvante
Charlotte Symons

Duparc: L'extase
Fourdrain: Celle que je préfère
Coates: I Heard You Singing
Charles Hackett
Pietro Cimara, piano

The Maid of Orleans: Adieu, forêts
Rosa Ponselle

Götterdämmerung: Funeral March

La Forza del Destino: La Vergine degli Angeli
Carmen: Habañera
Rosa Ponselle

Siegfried: Forging Song
Lauritz Melchior

Wagner: Träume
Leo Blech: Heine
Michael Head: Slumber Song of the Madonna
Eckert: Swiss Echo Song
Rosa Ponselle
Pietro Cimara, piano

Le Nozze di Figaro: Non più andrai
Julius Huehn

Roméo et Juliette: Act III, Scene 2
Stephano................Helen Olheim
Roméo...................Charles Hackett
Mercutio................Désiré Defrère
Tybalt..................Angelo Badà
Gregorio................Dudley Marwick
Duke....................Hubert Raidich
Metropolitan Opera Chorus

Conductor...............Wilfred Pelletier

[The excerpts from Faust and Roméo et Juliette were performed in costume.]





The excerpts from Faust and Roméo et Juliette were performed in costume.

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