[Met Performance] CID:170680



La Forza del Destino
Metropolitan Opera House, Sat, January 21, 1956




La Forza del Destino (84)
Giuseppe Verdi | Francesco Maria Piave
Leonora
Renata Tebaldi

Don Alvaro
Richard Tucker

Don Carlo
Leonard Warren

Padre Guardiano
Giorgio Tozzi

Preziosilla
Rosalind Elias

Fra Melitone
Fernando Corena

Marquis de Calatrava
Louis Sgarro

Curra
Thelma Votipka

Trabuco
Alessio De Paolis

Surgeon
George Cehanovsky


Conductor
Pietro Cimara







Review 1:

Review of A. H. in the Herald Tribune

Fourth 'Forza del Destino' Of Season Is Given at Met

Had the season's fourth performance of Verdi's "La Forza del Destino" been announced as a competition among leading singers, one would scarcely have expected a more dazzling display of sheer vocal brilliance than that heard at the Metropolitan Opera on Saturday evening.

Renata Tebaldi, appearing as Leonora, was the leading contestant, but Richard Tucker (Don Alvaro) and Leonard Warren (Don Carlo) stayed in the race to the bitter end. Events of this sort seldom offer much in the way of subtlety, but they make up for it, perhaps, with flashing excitement.

It was the lot of two artists - Rosalind Elias and Giorgio Tozzi - to enter the lists of this vocal free-for-all as newcomers to their respective roles at the Metropolitan, (Mr. Warren was singing his part for the first time this season, but it is one he knows perfectly by now.)

Commendable Impression

Neither Miss Elias, as Preziosilla, nor Mr. Tozzi, as Padre Guardino, threatened the positions of the pace setters, but each made a commendable impression. To look at, the young lady was as comely a camp follower as any set of troops could wish for, and she sang her brief aria with smooth control and unblemished beauty of tone.

Mr. Tozzi used his fine voice equally agreeably and wore well the surface dignity of a benevolent holy man. But he has yet to project the warmth and nobility of a serene and wholly sympathetic spirit

Other members of the cast included Fernando Corena as Fra Melitone, Louis Sgarro as Leonora's father and Thelma Votipka as the servant. Pietro Cimara conducted.



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