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Lucia di Lammermoor
Metropolitan Opera House, Fri, January 28, 1938
Lucia di Lammermoor (182)
Gaetano Donizetti | Salvadore Cammarano
- Lucia
- Lily Pons
- Edgardo
- Frederick Jagel
- Enrico
- Richard Bonelli
- Raimondo
- Ezio Pinza
- Normanno
- Angelo Badà
- Alisa
- Thelma Votipka
- Arturo
- Nicholas Massue
- Conductor
- Gennaro Papi
- Director
- Désiré Defrère
- Set Designer
- James Fox
- Costume Designer
- Mathilde Castel-Bert
- Choreographer
- George Balanchine
Lucia di Lammermoor received two performances this season.
Review 1:
Review signed E. D. in the Post
LILY PONS SINGS IN ROUTINE "LUCIA"
At the Metropolitan Opera House last night Lily Pons resumed her familiar role of Lucia in Donizetti's time honored "Lucia di Lammermoor." For New Yorkers, the mere name of Donizetti's masterpiece has a glamorous ring to it, which comes of a long list of gratefully remembered, exciting performances of the work at our own "Met."
Such glamour as attached to last night's performance, however, was reflected from a distant place called Hollywood.
In the standing room, where they were packed three deep, there must have been many who had seen our starry Lily on the screen and decided to hear her at least once from the hallowed stage of the Metropolitan. This is of inestimable financial advantage to the Opera House, but it also confers a certain moral responsibility. To have such people greeted by the uninspired routine of a performance like yesterday's, with its shabby scenery, "operatic" acting, inept stage direction and largely indifferent singing, is a questionable service to the popularization of opera in this country.
There was, of course, Miss Pons in a variety of fetching costumes, doing the kind of singing that has made her famous and, alas, some rather wooden acting. There was also Mr. Pinza, whose vice is an addition to any cast, as Raimondo, Thelma Votipka, Frederick Jagel, Richard Bonelli, Nicholas Massue and Angelo Bada. Mr. Papi, the conductor, could not seem to get very excited about "Lucia." And from the mildness of the applause, we judge the audience couldn't either.
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Met careers
- Gennaro Papi [Conductor]
- Lily Pons [Lucia]
- Frederick Jagel [Edgardo]
- Richard Bonelli [Enrico]
- Ezio Pinza [Raimondo]
- Angelo Badà [Normanno]
- Thelma Votipka [Alisa]
- Nicholas Massue [Arturo]
- Désiré Defrère [Director]
- George Balanchine [Choreographer]
- James Fox [Set Designer]
- Mathilde Castel-Bert [Costume Designer]