[Met Concert or Gala] CID:120720



Gala Program
Metropolitan Opera House, Sun, February 14, 1937




Gala Program



Metropolitan Opera House
February 14, 1937

GALA PROGRAM

Tannhäuser: Overture

Cavalleria Rusticana: Easter Hymn
Hilda Burke
Metropolitan Opera Chorus

Les Pêcheurs de Perles: Je crois entendre encore
Nicholas Massue

Aida: Fu la sorte
Irene Jessner
Anna Kaskas

Simon Boccanegra: Il lacerato spirito
Chase Baromeo

Lohengrin: Elsa's Dream
Hilda Burke

Il Trovatore: Miserere
Irene Jessner
Arthur Carron

Rigoletto: Cortigiani
Lawrence Tibbett

Tchaikovsky: 1812 Overture

Lohengrin: In fernem Land
Lauritz Melchior

Rigoletto: Act III Excerpts
Gilda...................Josephine Antoine
Maddalena...............Anna Kaskas
Duke of Mantua..........Sydney Rayner
Rigoletto...............George Cehanovsky
Sparafucile.............John Gurney

Otello: Dio mi potevi
Arthur Carron

Debussy: L'Enfant Prodigue: Air de Lia
Irene Jessner

Tannhäuser: O du, mein holder Abendstern
Lawrence Tibbett

La Traviata: Act II, Scene 2
Violetta................Stella Andreva
Flora...................Thelma Votipka
Alfredo.................Nicholas Massue
Germont.................George Cehanovsky
Gaston..................Giordano Paltrinieri
Baron Douphol...........Louis D'Angelo
Marquis d'Obigny........Wilfred Engelman
Dr. Grenvil.............Norman Cordon
Metropolitan Opera Chorus
American Ballet Ensemble

Conductor...............Wilfred Pelletier
Director................Désiré Defrère
Choreographer...........George Balanchine

[The excerpts from Il Trovatore, Rigoletto and La Traviata were performed in costume.]





The excerpts from Il Trovatore, Rigoletto and La Traviata were performed in costume.

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