[Met Concert or Gala] CID:124440



Grand Sunday Night Program
Metropolitan Opera House, Sun, December 25, 1938




Grand Sunday Night Program



Metropolitan Opera House
December 25, 1938

GRAND SUNDAY NIGHT PROGRAM

Martha: Overture

Samson et Dalila: Act II Excerpts
Dalila..................Bruna Castagna
High Priest.............Julius Huehn

Pagliacci: Ballatella
Marita Farell

Thomas: Le Caïd: Air du tambour major
Ezio Pinza

La Gioconda: Suicidio
Zinka Milanov

Rigoletto: Act III Excerpts
Gilda....................Natalie Bodanya
Maddalena................Lucielle Browning
Duke of Mantua...........Nicholas Massue
Rigoletto................Leonard Warren
Sparafucile..............John Gurney

Lakmé: Act II Hindu Dances
Felia Dubrovska
Ruth Chanova
Maria Gambarelli
Grant Mouradoff
Corps de Ballet

La Gioconda: L'amo come il fulgor del creato!
Zinka Milanov
Bruna Castagna

Carmen: Toreador's Song
Julius Huehn

Don Giovanni: Là ci darem la mano
Marita Farell
Ezio Pinza

Il Barbiere di Siviglia: Act II Excerpts
Rosina..................Josephine Antoine
Berta...................Irra Petina
Count Almaviva..........Alessio De Paolis
Figaro..................John Brownlee
Dr. Bartolo.............Louis D'Angelo
Don Basilio.............Norman Cordon
Official................Giordano Paltrinieri

Conductor...............Pietro Cimara

Director................Désiré Defrère
Choreographer...........Boris Romanoff

[The excerpts from Samson et Dalila, Rigoletto, Lakmé, and Il Barbiere di Siviglia were performed in costume.]





The excerpts from Samson et Dalila, Rigoletto, Lakmé, and Il Barbiere di Siviglia were performed in costume.

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