[Met Concert or Gala] CID:121090



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




Gala Program



Metropolitan Opera House
March 14, 1937

GALA PROGRAM

Semiramide: Overture

Lucia di Lammermoor: Verranno a te
Josephine Antoine
Joseph Bentonelli

Die Entführung aus dem Serail: Constanze Aria
Natalie Bodanya

La Juive: Si la rigueur
Emanuel List

Deep River (traditional/Pelletier)
Natalie Bodanya
Helen Olheim
Joseph Bentonelli
George Cehanovsky
Norman Cordon

Hérodiade: Ne pouvant réprimer
René Maison

Un Ballo in Maschera: Eri tu
John Brownlee

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


Romano Romani: Fedra: O divina Afrodite
Rosa Ponselle
Romano Romani, Conductor [Last appearance]

Lakmé: Act II Hindu Dances
Terana: Elise Reiman
Rektah: William Dollar, Eugene Loring, Serge Temoff
Persane: Holly Howard, Charles Laskey
Bayaders: Ruthanna Boris, Gisella Caccialanza, Rabana Hasburgh
Finale: American Ballet Ensemble
Arranged by George Balanchine

Aida: Celeste Aida
Charles Kullman

Les Pêcheurs de Perles: Au fond du temple saint
René Maison
John Brownlee

La Vestale: O nume tutelar
Schubert: Erlkönig
Rimsky-Korsakov: The Nightingale and the Rose
Herbert Brewer: Fairy Piper
Ernest Charles: When I Have Sung My Songs
Buzzi-Peccia: El morenito
Rosa Ponselle
Romano Romani, piano

Carmen: Parle-moi de ma mère!
Natalie Bodanya
Charles Kullman

Rigoletto: Act III Excerpts
Gilda...................Josephine Antoine
Maddalena...............Helen Olheim
Joseph Bentonelli
George Cehanovsky

Conductor...............Wilfred Pelletier
Director................Désiré Defrère

[The excerpts from Lucia di Lammermoor and Rigoletto were performed in costume. Deep River was also sung in costume.]







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