[Met Performance] CID:167080



Faust
Metropolitan Opera House, Thu, November 18, 1954




Faust (519)
Charles Gounod | Jules Barbier/Michel Carré
Faust
Jan Peerce

Marguerite
Victoria de los Angeles

Méphistophélès
Jerome Hines

Valentin
Robert Merrill

Siebel
Mildred Miller

Marthe
Thelma Votipka

Wagner
Lawrence Davidson

Dance
Sallie Wilson


Conductor
Pierre Monteux


Director
Peter Brook

Designer
Rolf Gérard

Choreographer
Zachary Solov

Stage Director
Robert Herman





Faust received seventeen performances this season.

Review 1:

Review of J. B. in unidentified newspaper

`FAUST' TITLE ROLE IS SUNG BY PEERCE

"Faust" had its first performance of the season at the Metropolitan Opera Thursday evening, with Pierre Monteux conducting and with Jan Peerce singing the title role for the first time there.

Mr. Peerce's Faust, as might have been. expected from so experienced and reliable a performer, was marked by high competence. Mr. Peerce has great vocal surety, and his singing is in tune. The high C of "Salut, demeure" elicited loud applause from last night's audience.

Victoria de los Angeles' Marguerite continues to be a well-sung and appealing characterization. Miss de los Angeles' performance of the "Jewel Song" had both virtuosity and tonal splendor. The fine singing of this artist throughout the opera was a highlight of the evening's music.

Another fine characterization was that of Jerome Hines as Mephistopheles. Mr. Hines' voice appears to gain in sonority each season. Last evening his singing was well-focused and secure as to intonation. As a stage devil his Mephistopheles is appropriately suave and sinister.

Robert Merrill, a last-minute replacement for Frank Guarrera who was indisposed, sang Valentin sonorously, and Mildred Miller was a capable Siebel. Thelma Votipka and Lawrence Davidson completed the cast. Mr. Monteux, in the pit, kept things moving at judicious speed,



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