[Met Performance] CID:153090



Khovanshchina
Metropolitan Opera House, Mon, March 6, 1950


In English



Khovanshchina (3)
Modest Mussorgsky | Modest Mussorgsky
Ivan Khovansky
Lawrence Tibbett

Andrei Khovansky
Brian Sullivan

Marfa
Blanche Thebom

Dosifei
Jerome Hines

Golitsin
Charles Kullman

Shaklovity
Robert Weede

Scrivener
Leslie Chabay

Emma
Anne Bollinger

Susanna
Polyna Stoska

Kouzka
Clifford Harvuot

Strelets
Emery Darcy

Strelets
Denis Harbour

Strelets
Philip Kinsman

Varsonofiev
Osie Hawkins

Dance
Tilda Morse

Dance
Peggy Smithers


Conductor
Emil Cooper







Review 1:

Quaintance Eaton in Musical America

Blanche Thebom took over the role of Marfa in the third performance of the Moussorgsky opera, and sang it with sincere feeling and beautiful voice. Her appreciation of the dramatic convolutions of the character was apparent, and she made the most of the final scene with Andrei, the mass of love, which contains some of the loveliest music in the work. Her divination scene in the second act was equally impressive. The role lies low for a mezzo-soprano, but Miss Thebom minimized its difficulties, and summoned ringing tones for the higher reaches of her music.

 

Jerome Hines again sang the role of the Old Believer, Dossife, and as

familiarity deepened his conception of the part, so did it free his voice from any restraint. He sang with richness and warmth, and his monologues in the last scene were extremely impressive.

 

The cast otherwise was as before – Polyna Stoska as Suzanna, Anne Ballinger as Emma, Charles Kullman as Golitsin, Lawrence Tibbett as Khovansky, Brian Sullivan as Andrei, Robert Weede as Shaklovity, Leslie Chabay as the Scrivener, Clifford  Harvout as Kuska, and Osie Hawkins as Varsoneviiff. Emil Cooper conducted.



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