[Met Performance] CID:149510



Lucia di Lammermoor
Metropolitan Opera House, Sat, January 15, 1949




Lucia di Lammermoor (237)
Gaetano Donizetti | Salvadore Cammarano
Lucia
Patrice Munsel

Edgardo
James Melton

Enrico
Giuseppe Valdengo

Raimondo
Jerome Hines

Normanno
Anthony Marlowe

Alisa
Thelma Votipka

Arturo
Thomas Hayward


Conductor
Pietro Cimara







Review 1:

Review of James Hinton Jr. in Musical America

The fourth presentation of Donizetti's most viable opera was an exceptionally good one. Patrice Munsel and Giuseppe Valdengo, both appearing in their roles for the first time this season, were Lucia and Lord Enrico Ashton, and both did much fine singing. Miss Munsel's tone was attractive throughout the evening, and her singing was securely on pitch and tasteful in phrasing. She also gave a sound performance dramatically, and with Mr. Valdengo singing sonorously and with superb inflection, the second act, and particularly the duet, "Soffriva nel pianto," achieved considerable impact.

James Melton, as Edgardo, cut a good figure on the stage, and sang particularly well in the duet, "Verranno là sull' aure," in the first act, and in the declamatory passages that follow the sextet. Jerome Hines' Raimondo was dignified and sympathetic, and his rich voice was a tower of strength in the ensembles. Thomas Hayward sang his first Arturo of the season, and did an admirable job with that ungrateful role. Others in the cast were Thelma Votipka and Anthony Marlowe. Pietro Cimara conducted.



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