[Met Performance] CID:183410



Cavalleria Rusticana
Pagliacci
Metropolitan Opera House, Sat, December 5, 1959

Debut : Roland Miles




Cavalleria Rusticana (413)
Pietro Mascagni | Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti, Guido Menasci
Santuzza
Zinka Milanov

Turiddu
Jan Peerce

Lola
Bel?n Amparan

Alfio
Walter Cassel

Mamma Lucia
Thelma Votipka


Conductor
Nino Verchi


Pagliacci (452)
Ruggero Leoncavallo | Ruggero Leoncavallo
Nedda
Maria Nache

Canio
Dimiter Uzunov

Tonio
Mario Sereni

Silvio
Calvin Marsh

Beppe
Charles Anthony

Villager
Roland Miles [Debut]

Villager
William Starling


Conductor
Nino Verchi







Review 1:

Review of Jack Diether in Musical America
The season's fifth "Cavalleria" and "Pagliacci" presented several newcomers to the casts. The versatile Belen Amparan made a sensuous entrance as Lola (the only character in "Cavalleria" who has time to navigate the ramp gracefully),and invested her brief part with considerable tonal splendor. Zinka Milanov was again the Santuzza; Thelma Votipka, Lucia; and Jan Peerce and Walter Cassel, Turiddu and Alfio.

In "Pagliacci,? Maria Nache made an attractive Nedda. Her voice is strong and clear at the top, with contrasting low tones that are impressive; and she has good enunciation. Her "Ballatella" caught fire immediately and sustained interest. In her acting, she was self-assured, except for the fact that, as Mario Sereni's Tonio was also a debut, their scene together was still too preoccupied with stage work to be sufficiently malevolent. Mr. Sereni, who has played the lover Silvio both this and last season, on this occasion made an equally effective Tonio, and gave a sincere rendition of the Prologue, not especially powerful, but firmly controlled. Calvin Marsh was excellent in his first Silvio of the season, Dimiter Uzunov repeated his Canio and Charles Anthony, his Beppe. Nino Verchi again conducted.

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