[Met Performance] CID:138230



Don Giovanni
Metropolitan Opera House, Mon, December 18, 1944




Don Giovanni (119)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Lorenzo Da Ponte
Don Giovanni
Ezio Pinza

Donna Anna
Zinka Milanov

Don Ottavio
Charles Kullman

Donna Elvira
Eleanor Steber

Leporello
Salvatore Baccaloni

Zerlina
Nadine Conner

Masetto
Mack Harrell

Commendatore
John Gurney


Conductor
George Szell







Review 1:

Review of Robert Bagar in the World-Telegram

Zinka Milanov in Mozart Role

Mozart's 'Don Giovanni," which seems to be enjoying a run at the Metropolitan, was given again last evening. All the participants were as formerly, excepting in respect to Donna Anna, a role this time entrusted to Zinka Milanov, and the Commendatore by john Gurney.

Mme. Milanov, who can be as vocally seductive and insinuating as a Ponselle one moment and the next give an agreeable impersonation of the harried heroine. Not often did her singing leap from one extreme of sound to the other, but when it did there was no mistaking it.

She has done much in rounding out this part. It is more agreeable dramatically and, in sum, not at all bad to look upon. Musically, too, she now leans to the right, a direction acceptable in operatic tradition, if not in politics.

Ezio Pinza was the [rakish] Don to the life. Eleanor Steber allowed improvement over even her own creditable Donna Elvira. Charles Kullman sang with fervor and in excellent taste and there are words of praise also for Nadine Conner's Zerlina, Salvatore Baccaloni's Leporello and Mack Harrell's Masetto.

George Szell, now doubling between the Metropolitan and the Philharmonic-Symphony concerts at Carnegie Hall, conducted con spirito [sic] from start to finish.



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