[Met Performance] CID:174070



Le Nozze di Figaro
Metropolitan Opera House, Thu, February 14, 1957




Le Nozze di Figaro (161)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Lorenzo Da Ponte
Figaro
Martial Singher

Susanna
Nadine Conner

Count Almaviva
Ralph Herbert

Countess Almaviva
Licia Albanese

Cherubino
Margaret Roggero

Dr. Bartolo
Salvatore Baccaloni

Marcellina
Sandra Warfield

Don Basilio
Alessio De Paolis

Antonio
Lorenzo Alvary

Barbarina
Emilia Cundari

Don Curzio
Gabor Carelli

Peasant
Madelaine Chambers

Peasant
Helen Vanni


Conductor
Max Rudolf







Review 1:

Review signed L. T. in the Herald Tribune
Seasons Final “Figaro” at Met

Mozart’s “Le Nozze di Figaro” was given a final performance of the season Thursday night at the Metropolitan Opera with Max Rudolf conducting. Singing their roles for the first time this season were Margaret Roggero as Cherubino and Martial Singher, as Figaro. Other important parts were sung by Licia Albanese, Nadine Conner, and Sandra Warfield, while Ralph Herbert made his initial Metropolitan Opera appearance as Count Almaviva.


Susanna and Figaro are, of course, among the opera’s most warmly delineated characters, and their impersonators last night were so full of energy and ebullience as to be irresistible. Miss Conner flounced and bounced about the stage emitting not one tone of less than purest cast, while Mr. Singher, who was the perfect embodiment of Figaro, sang with thoroughly ingratiating lightness and tensile strength. In the roles of Cherubino Miss Roggero sometimes seemed to be achieving one jot less than the total cleanliness of performance for which she aimed. Here was, nevertheless, a commendable characterization as was Mr. Herbert’s, which carried qualities of geniality and solidity of projection with it throughout the evening.



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