[Met Concert or Gala] CID:124720



Gala Program
Metropolitan Opera House, Sun, January 15, 1939




Gala Program



Metropolitan Opera House
January 15, 1939

GALA PROGRAM

Mignon: Overture

Les Contes d'Hoffmann: Act III Excerpts
Antonia.................Hilda Burke
Voice...................Anna Kaskas
Dr. Miracle.............Norman Cordon

Rigoletto: Pari siamo
Carlo Tagliabue

La Favorita: O mio Fernando
Anna Kaskas

Madama Butterfly: Act III Excerpts
Cio-Cio-San.............Hilda Burke
Suzuki..................Lucielle Browning
Kate Pinkerton..........Pearl Besuner
B.F. Pinkerton..........Giovanni Martinelli
Sharpless...............George Cehanovsky

Il Trovatore: Act I, Scene 2
Leonora.................Zinka Milanov
Inez....................Pearl Besuner
Manrico.................Arthur Carron
Count di Luna...........Leonard Warren

Selections
John Carter
Victor Trucco, piano

Aida: Fu la sorte
Zinka Milanov
Anna Kaskas

Faust: Vous qui faites l'endormie (Serenade)
Norman Cordon

Otello: Sì, pel ciel
Arthur Carron
Carlo Tagliabue

La Gioconda: Dance of the Hours
Felia Dubrovska
Grant Mouradoff
George Chaffee

Conductor...............Fausto Cleva

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

[The excerpts from Les Contes d'Hoffmann, Madama Butterfly, Il Trovatore, and La Gioconda were performed in costume.]





The excerpts from Les Contes d'Hoffmann, Madama Butterfly, Il Trovatore, and La Gioconda were performed in costume.

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