[Met Concert or Gala] CID:140220



Gala Program
Metropolitan Opera House, Sun, December 16, 1945




Gala Program



Metropolitan Opera House
December 16, 1945

GALA PROGRAM

Il Barbiere di Siviglia: Overture

La Traviata: Act I
Violetta................Christina Carroll
Flora...................Thelma Altman
Alfredo.................Thomas Hayward
Gastone.................Lodovico Oliviero
Baron Douphol...........George Cehanovsky
Marquis D'Obigny........John Baker
Dr. Grenvil.............Louis D'Angelo

Pagliacci: Vesti la giubba
Raoul Jobin

Cavalleria Rusticana: Voi lo sapete
Florence Kirk

Il Barbiere di Siviglia: Largo al factotum
Leonard Warren

La Favorita: O mio Fernando
Martha Lipton

La Gioconda: Dance of the Hours
Marina Svetlova
Leon Varkas
Josef Carmassi

Rigoletto: Act III Excerpts
Gilda...................Mimi Benzell
Maddalena...............Martha Lipton
Duke of Mantua..........Anthony Marlowe
Rigoletto...............George Cehanovsky
Sparafucile.............William Hargrave

Boris Godunov: Song of Varlaam
Salvatore Baccaloni

Aida: Ritorna vincitor
Florence Kirk

Carmen: La fleur que tu m'avais jetée
Raoul Jobin

Carmen: Je dis que rien ne m'épouvante
Lillian Raymondi

Faust: Kermesse Scene
Marguerite..............Maxine Stellman
Siebel..................Thelma Altman
Faust...................Jacques Gérard
Valentin................Frank Valentino
Mephistopheles..........William Hargrave
Wagner..................John Baker

Conductor...............Paul Breisach
Director................Désiré Defrère
Choreographer...........Boris Romanoff

[The excerpts from La Traviata, Rigoletto and Faust were performed in costume.]





The excerpts from La Traviata, Rigoletto and Faust were performed in costume.

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