[Met Concert or Gala] CID:124990



Gala Program
Metropolitan Opera House, Sun, February 5, 1939




Gala Program



Metropolitan Opera House
February 5, 1939

GALA PROGRAM


Oberon: Overture

Don Giovanni: Madamina
Norman Cordon

Rigoletto: Act III Scene
Gilda...................Lina Aimaro
Rigoletto...............Carlo Morelli
Monterone...............George Cehanovsky

Mignon: Connais-tu le pays
Risë Stevens

L'Africaina: O paradiso
Frederick Jagel

Lohengrin: Elsa's Dream
Elisabeth Rethberg

Aida: Act II, Scene 2 Ballet
Maria Gambarelli, Dance
Corps de Ballet

Lohengrin: Act II, Scene 2
Elsa....................Elisabeth Rethberg
Ortrud..................Kerstin Thorborg

La Gioconda: Enzo Grimaldo
Frederick Jagel
Carlo Morelli

La Gioconda: O monumento
Carlo Morelli

Il Barbiere di Siviglia: Act II
Rosina..................Lina Aimaro
Berta...................Irra Petina
Count Almaviva..........Charles Hackett [Last appearance]
Figaro..................Carlo Tagliabue
Dr. Bartolo.............Virgilio Lazzari
Don Basilio.............Norman Cordon
Official................Wilfred Engelman

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

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

[The scenes from Rigoletto, Aida, Lohengrin and Il Barbiere di Siviglia were performed in costume.]





The scenes from Rigoletto, Aida, Lohengrin and Il Barbiere di Siviglia were performed in costume.

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