[Met Performance] CID:168480



Don Giovanni
Metropolitan Opera House, Fri, April 1, 1955




Don Giovanni (184)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Lorenzo Da Ponte
Don Giovanni
Jerome Hines

Donna Anna
Margaret Harshaw

Don Ottavio
Eugene Conley

Donna Elvira
Lucine Amara

Leporello
Fernando Corena

Zerlina
Nadine Conner

Masetto
Lawrence Davidson

Commendatore
Luben Vichey


Conductor
Max Rudolf







Review 1:

Review signed J. S. in Musical America

In the fifth and final performance of Mozart's opera this season, Jerome Hines portrayed the Don with considerable aplomb and vocal polish. Fernando Corena seconded him admirably as Leporello; the Catalogue aria was one of the high points of his performance, delivered with mock innocence yet satirical bite. Lucine Amara sang with a genuine feeling for dramatic style, and her Donna Elvira achieved tragic stature. Her voice was beautiful in cantilena passages, projected with a moving intensity. Nadine Conner sang her first Zerlina of the season with a lightness and grace that consorted well with this lyric role. Margaret Harshaw brought a little too much of Wagnerian style to the role of Donna Anna, but her voice was secure and well produced. Others in the cast were Luben Vichey as Il Commendatore; Eugene Conley as Don Ottavio; and Lawrence Davidson as Masetto Max Rudolf conducted, and kept things moving at a satisfactory pace, but with little feeling for nuances of phrasing and tempo.



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