[Met Performance] CID:159550



Don Carlo
Metropolitan Opera House, Wed, April 9, 1952


In Italian



Don Carlo (33)
Giuseppe Verdi | François Joseph Méry/Camille du Locle list Italian text as translators?
Don Carlo
Jussi Björling

Elizabeth of Valois
Eleanor Steber

Rodrigo
Robert Merrill

Princess Eboli
Regina Resnik

Philip II
Jerome Hines

Grand Inquisitor
Nicola Moscona

Celestial Voice
Lucine Amara

Friar
Luben Vichey

Tebaldo
Anne Bollinger

Count of Lerma
Paul Franke

Countess of Aremberg
Tilda Morse

Herald
Emery Darcy


Conductor
Renato Cellini







Review 1:

Review of Francis D. Perkins in the Herald Tribune

Season's Last 'Don Carlo' Has Resnik as Princess

The season's fourth and last performance of Verdi's "Don Carlo" at the Metropolitan Opera House last night had a new Princess of Eboli, Regina Resnik, and a new conductor, Renato Cellini, who is a member of the Metropolitan's musical staff. The general musical interpretation under his direction was well integrated and balanced, gaining expressive conviction after the first act. In this respect, Miss Resnik's singing was persuasive, and, although the role is usually sung by a mezzo-soprano or contralto, it did not seem to lie too low for her voice. Her tones had color, but in the aria "O don fatale" dramatic force was sometimes accompanied by an impression of rather injudicious forcing in the vocal production.

Jussi Bjoerling sang spiritedly in the title role; Eleanor Steber, singing Elizabeth for the first time this season, gave an appealing interpretation. Robert Merrill and Nicola Moscona also singing their roles for the first time this season fared well as Rodrigo and the Grand Inquisitor; Jerome Hines was in good voice in an expressive representation of Philip II.



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