[Met Performance] CID:152080



Lucia di Lammermoor
Metropolitan Opera House, Fri, December 2, 1949




Lucia di Lammermoor (249)
Gaetano Donizetti | Salvadore Cammarano
Lucia
Patrice Munsel

Edgardo
Ferruccio Tagliavini

Enrico
Frank Valentino

Raimondo
Nicola Moscona

Normanno
Paul Franke

Alisa
Thelma Votipka

Arturo
Thomas Hayward


Conductor
Pietro Cimara


Director
Désiré Defrère

Designer
Richard Rychtarik

Choreographer
Boris Romanoff





Lucia di Lammermoor received four performances this season.

Review 1:

Irving Kolodin in the Sun

Munsel, Tagliavini Return in “Lucia”

 

The roller-coaster character of the Metropolitan asserted itself again last night in a precipitous decline from the previous night’s “Tristan” to the trough of a commonplace “Lucia.” The cast was all familiar, and none the better for the fact: Patrice Munsel as Lucia, Ferruccio Tagliavini as Edgardo, with Francesco Valentino, Thomas Hayward and Nicola Moscona in smaller roles. Pietro Cimara began in a valiant spirit of energy at the conductor’s desk , but made little headway.

 

Miss Munsel’s odd collection of vocal effects comes to sound less and less like a disciplined voice. Bits of flexibility and brilliance are succeeded by long stretches of quavery, unfocused tone which mean little, and give less pleasure. Tagliavini comes back in good voice, with an easier attitude toward it than was sometimes heard last year. Edgardo is not his best part, but he carried it off with assurance, and a kind of vocal bravado that won him much applause. The house was full, also the standing space.



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