[Met Performance] CID:149610



La Bohème
Metropolitan Opera House, Tue, January 25, 1949




La Bohème (420)
Giacomo Puccini | Luigi Illica/Giuseppe Giacosa
Mimì
Bidú Sayão

Rodolfo
Richard Tucker

Musetta
Frances Greer

Marcello
Frank Valentino

Schaunard
George Cehanovsky

Colline
Nicola Moscona

Alcindoro/Benoit
Melchiorre Luise

Parpignol
Anthony Marlowe

Sergeant
Lawrence Davidson


Conductor
Giuseppe Antonicelli







Review 1:

Review of Robert Sabin in Musical America

Richard Tucker and Frances Greer made their first appearances of the season as Rodolfo and Musetta in the third performance of Puccini's opera, given as a benefit for the New York Protestant Episcopal City Mission Society. The rest of the cast was made up of Bidu Sayao, as Mimi; George Cehanovsky, as Schaunard; Francesco Valentino, as Marcello; Nicola Moscona, as Colline; Melchiorre Luise, as Benoit and Alcindoro ; Anthony Marlowe, as Parpignol; and Lawrence Davidson, as the Sergeant.

Both Mr. Tucker and Miss Greer were in good voice, and the performance as a whole went the way of respectable routine. Even Giuseppe Antonicelli, who usually conducts too vehemently, if anything, seemed to be in no mood to take Puccini's pretty make-believe at all seriously. But the audience seemed happy and the singers were enthusiastically received.



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