[Met Performance] CID:137410



Carmen
Metropolitan Opera House, Wed, April 5, 1944




Carmen (398)
Georges Bizet | Henri Meilhac/Ludovic Halévy
Carmen
Irra Petina

Don José
Raoul Jobin

Micaela
Licia Albanese

Escamillo
Leonard Warren

Frasquita
Thelma Votipka

Mercédès
Lucielle Browning

Remendado
Alessio De Paolis

Dancaïre
George Cehanovsky

Zuniga
Louis D'Angelo

Moralès
John Baker

Dance
Monna Montes

Dance
Nina Youskevitch

Dance
Marina Svetlova

Dance
Alexis Dolinoff

Dance
Leon Varkas

Dance
Michael Arshansky


Conductor
Wilfred Pelletier







Review 1:

Review of Jerome D. Bohm in the Herald Tribune

Title Role of "Carmen" Is Sung by Irra Petina

Opera Has Final Performance of Season at Metropolitan

Bizet's "Carmen" was heard in its final performance of the season at the Metropolitan Opera House last night. Irra Petina made her first appearance of the season in the title role, and Wilfred Pettetier conducted, replacing Sir Thomas Beecham, who had directed the previous presentation. The cast included the Misses Albanese, Votipka and Browning and Messrs. Jobin, Warren, Cehanovsky, De Paolis, D'Angelo and Baker.

Miss Petina, whose gifts as a comedienne are indubitable, is not felicitously cast as Carmen. The note of genuine passion is missing from her impersonation and her acting and dancing were of an angularity which suggested the controlled posturing of a marionette. Her singing is competent but wanting in sensuousness and emotional conviction. Mr. Pelletier's interpretation of the score was justly paced and alert.



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