[Met Performance] CID:155000

Opening Night {66}, New Production, General Manager: Rudolf Bing

Don Carlo
Metropolitan Opera House, Mon, November 6, 1950 Telecast


Debut : Delia Rigal, Fedora Barbieri, Cesare Siepi, Lucine Amara, Margaret Webster, Rolf Gérard


In Italian



Don Carlo (15)
Giuseppe Verdi | François Joseph Méry/Camille du Locle list Italian text as translators?
Don Carlo
Jussi Björling

Elizabeth of Valois
Delia Rigal [Debut]

Rodrigo
Robert Merrill

Princess Eboli
Fedora Barbieri [Debut]

Philip II
Cesare Siepi [Debut]

Grand Inquisitor
Jerome Hines

Celestial Voice
Lucine Amara [Debut]

Friar
Luben Vichey

Tebaldo
Anne Bollinger

Count of Lerma
Paul Franke

Countess of Aremberg
Tilda Morse

Herald
Emery Darcy


Conductor
Fritz Stiedry


Production
Margaret Webster [Debut]

Designer
Rolf Gérard [Debut]





Translation by Lauzières, Zanardini
The original Act I, the woods at Fontainebleau, and La Pérégrina, the classic ballet intended for Act III, Scene 1, a grotto in the queen's garden, were omitted throughout the run of this production, 1950 through 1972.
Don Carlo received fifteen performances this season.
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FUNDING:
Production a gift of the children of Mr. and Mrs. Otto H. Kahn

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Chapter: Photographs and Reviews of the 1950 Opening Night performance of Don Carlo (click on Björling thumbnail)

Chapter: Rudolf Bing (click on Bing thumbnail)



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