[Met Performance] CID:159330



Alceste
Metropolitan Opera House, Wed, March 19, 1952


In English



Alceste (8)
Christoph Willibald Gluck | Ranieri de' Calzabigi/François-Louis Grand Le Bland Du Roullet/Gossec
Alceste
Kirsten Flagstad

Admète
Set Svanholm

High Priest
Frank Valentino

Oracle
Alois Pernerstorfer

Évandre
Emery Darcy

Herald
Norman Scott

Woman
Paula Lenchner

Thanatos
Osie Hawkins

Leader of the People
Lucine Amara

Leader of the People
Margaret Roggero

Leader of the People
Thomas Hayward

Leader of the People
Luben Vichey

Dance
Maria Karnilova

Dance
Socrates Birsky


Conductor
Alberto Erede







Review 1:

Review in the Herald Tribune

'Alcestis' at Met

Set Svanholm Is Admetus; Cast Has 2 Other Changes

Gluck's "Alcestis" had a few changes of cast in its third performance of the season last night at the Metropolitan Opera House. Set Svanholm was heard here for the first time in the role of Admetus. The other two cast changes were unscheduled. Frank Valentino was heard in the relatively brief part of the High Priest, in place of Paul Schoeffler, who was indisposed. The still briefer part of the woman who makes the offering of fruit in Act II was assumed by Paula Lenchner, who replaced Anne Bollinger.

Kirsten Flagstad was again in the dominating role of Alcestis, and the capacity audience recalled her many times after each act. Miss Flagstad has only two more performances of the Gluck opera to sing before she retires from the operatic stage, and last night's shouts of "brava" were not only for her singing but were an expression of farewell on the part of many operagoers who did not expect to hear her again within the walls of the Metropolitan Opera House. Alberto Erede was again on the conductor's podium.



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