[Met Concert or Gala] CID:133330



Grand Sunday Night Program
Metropolitan Opera House, Sun, March 15, 1942




Grand Sunday Night Program



Metropolitan Opera House
March 15, 1942

GRAND SUNDAY NIGHT PROGRAM

Die Lustigen Weiber von Windsor: Overture

Cavalleria Rusticana: Excerpts (In Costume)
Lily Djanel
Mona Paulee
Mary Van Kirk
Arthur Carron
Frank Valentino

Tannhäuser: Dich teure Halle
Maria Van Delden

Siegfried: Forging Song
Emery Darcy

Rienzi: Gerechter Gott
Karin Branzell

La Forza del Destino: Convent Scene
Stella Roman
Nicola Moscona

Conductor...............Paul Breisach


Presentation of finalists from the Metropolitan Opera Auditions of the Air
Milton Cross, Master of Ceremonies

Das Rheingold: Weiche, Wotan! Weiche!
Margaret Harshaw [First Appearance]

La Bohème: Che gelida manina
Elwood Gary [First Appearance]

Il Barbiere di Siviglia: Una voce poco fà
Virginia MacWatters [First appearance]

Pagliacci: Prologue
Clifford Harvuot [First Appearance]

La Bohème: Mi chiamano Mimì
Frances Greer [First Appearance]

Boris Godunov: Monologue
Robert Brink [Only Appearance]

Conductor...............Wilfred Pelletier


Il Barbiere di Siviglia: La calunnia
Nicola Moscona

Faust: Jewel Song
Eleanor Steber

Faust: Avant de quitter ces lieux
Leonard Warren

Faust: Final Trio
Eleanor Steber
Raoul Jobin
Nicola Moscona

Conductor...............Paul Breisach


Lakmé: Act II Hindu Dances
Ruthanna Boris
Monna Montes
Michael Arshansky
Alexis Dolinoff
Leon Varkas

Conductor...............Peter Paul Fuchs [Last appearance]

Director................Désiré Defrère
Choreographer...........Laurent Novikoff


Photograph of Auditions of the Air winners Elwood Gary, Francis Greer, Margaret Harshaw, and Clifford Harvuot with Edward Johnson and Wilfred Pelletier.







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