[Met Concert or Gala] CID:128250



Gala Program
Metropolitan Opera House, Sun, March 3, 1940




Gala Program



Metropolitan Opera House
March 3, 1940

GALA PROGRAM

Il Segreto di Susanna: Overture

Rigoletto: Act II Excerpts (In Costume)
Gilda...................Josephine Antoine
Page....................Edith Herlick
Duke of Mantua..........Nicholas Massue
Rigoletto...............Robert Weede
Monterone...............Louis D'Angelo
Borsa...................Giordano Paltrinieri
Marullo.................Wilfred Engelman

Roméo et Juliette: Waltz
Bidú Sayao

Werther: Pourquoi me réveiller
Raoul Jobin

Cavalleria Rusticana: Voi lo sapete
Hilda Burke

Manon: Excerpts from St. Sulpice Scene (In Costume)
Manon Lescaut............Susanne Fisher
Dex Grieux...............Raoul Jobin
Count des Grieux.........Nicola Moscona

La Traviata: Act II, Scene 2 Excerpts (In Costume)
Violetta.................Bidú Sayao
Flora....................Thelma Votipka
Alfredo..................Armand Tokatyan
Germont..................Leonard Warren
Gastone..................Giordano Paltrinieri
Baron Douphol............Wilfred Engelman
Marquis d'Obigny.........George Cehanovsky
Dr. Grenvil..............Louis D'Angelo
Dance: Lillian Moore, Monna Montes and the
Metropolitan Opera Ballet
Metropolitan Opera Chorus

Un Ballo in Maschera: Eri tu
Robert Weede

Pagliacci: Stridono lassù
Hilda Burke

La Gioconda: Act III, Scene 2 (In Costume)
La Gioconda..............Jean Merrill [Last appearance]
La Cieca.................Anna Kaskas
Enzo.....................Armand Tokatyan
Barnaba..................Leonard Warren
Alvise...................Nicola Moscona
Dance: Ruthanna Boris, Grant Mouradoff, George Chaffee,
and the Metropolitan Opera Ballet

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

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







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