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Gatti-Casazza 25th Anniversary. Broadcast ed. Metropolitan Opera House: 02/26/1933., Broadcast

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Metropolitan Opera House February 26, 1933 Broadcast GATTI-CASAZZA 25TH ANNIVERSARY In Celebration of the Twenty-fifth Year of the Metropolitan Opera under the direction of GIULIO GATTI-CASAZZA VOCAL AND INSTRUMENTAL CONCERT Mefistofele: Prologue Metropolitan Opera Chorus Giulio Setti, Conductor Lucia di Lammermoor: Sextet Lily Pons, Philine Falco, Giacomo Lauri-Volpi, Armando Borgioli,Tancredi Pasero, Angelo Badà Giuseppe Sturani, Conductor [Last appearance] The King's Henchman: Act I Finale Edward Johnson, Richard Bonelli, Arthur Anderson, Max Altglass Tullio Serafin, Conductor Ernani: O sommo Carlo Rosa Ponselle, Frederick Jagel, Giuseppe De Luca, Ezio Pinza, Alfio Tedesco Tullio Serafin, Conductor A Few Words by Edward Johnson in tribute to Giulio Gatti-Casazza Lucrezia Bori and an appeal for funds Remarks by Paul D. Cravath and Marcella Sembrich Samson et Dalila: Act I, Scene 1 Giovanni Martinelli, Louis D'Angelo Metropolitan Opera Chorus Louis Hasselmans, Conductor Tannhäuser: Act II Finale Elisabeth Rethberg, Lauritz Melchior, Friedrich Schorr, Ludwig Hofmann, Hans Clemens, James Wolfe, Giordano Paltrinieri, Arnold Gabor Karl Riedel, Conductor Falstaff: Act III Finale Queena Mario, Editha Fleischer, Marion Telva [Last appearance], Gladys Swarthout, Pasquale Amato [Last appearance], Richard Bonelli, Armand Tokatyan, Angelo Badà, Giordano Paltrinieri, Adamo Didur [Last appearance] Vincenzo Bellezza, Conductor THE OPERATIC SURPRISE PARTY NOVELTIES AND SURPRISES Sketches by Armando Agnini, Robert Armbruster, Raymond Knight, Earle R. Lewis SCENE I TRYING TO PLEASE (by Raymond Knight) Raymond Knight, Announcer Jack Arthur, Pickle King Arthur Allen, Herring Sponsor Carlo Edwards, Opera Manager PAGLIACCI: Prologue Armando Borgioli THE EMPEROR JONES: selection Alfredo Gandolfi ("Alfredo Gandolfi, in the Emperor's blue and red uniform, had groaned only twice when a telephone rang. A radio listener out in Montana disliked the Gruenberg opera and wanted Carmen." CARMEN: Seguidilla Gladys Swarthout DIE WALKÜRE: Ride of the Valkyries Grace Divine, Leonora Corona, Rose Bampton, Pearl Besuner, Philine Falco, Doris Doe, Dorothea Flexer IL TROVATORE: Soldier's Chorus Frank Chapman, Louis D'Angelo, Arthur Anderson, James Wolfe RAMONA (a radio opera) with music by Charles Grant Ramona: Queena Mario Don José: Richard Crooks Wilfred Pelletier, Conductor IT COULD HAPPEN: a mixup with too many super-directors providing quadruple casts: FAUST: Final Trio Marguerite: Helen Gleason, Elda Vettori, Aida Doninelli, Eidé Norena. Faust: Frederick Jagel, Armand Tokatyan, Alfio Tedesco, Max Altglass. Méfistophélès: Pompilio Malatesta, Léon Rothier, Paolo Ananian, Arthur Anderson Conductor: Antonio Dell'Orefice, Pietro Cimara, Kurt Ruhrseitz, Riccardo Dellera TEATRO DILL PICKLES (a marionette opera) Santuzza: Dorothee Manski Lola: Ina Bourskaya Turiddu: Marek Windheim Marionette pianist: Robert Armbruster BACK STAGE: MADAMA BUTTERFLY: Love Duet viewed from backstage Cio-cio-San: Thalia Sabanieeva Lieutenant Pinkerton: Mario Chamlee Conductor: Wilfred Pelletier The entire scene was played by the singers with their backs to the audience in the opera house. Against reversed scenery cluttered with lumber and metal supports, Thalia Sabanieeva and Mario Chamlee sang the Love Duet from Madama Butterfly, while some equally plain Americans played cards in the wings and the child Trouble crooned a lullaby to its doll until grabbed up by its professional parents and thrust out to wave an American flag to the unseen audience. [In addition to the artists noted above, Ellen Dalossy, Margaret Halstead, Ludwig Hofmann, Rudolf Laubenthal, and Karl Riedel were announced to partipate in SCENE 1.] SCENE 2 THE METROPOLITAN OPERA NIGHT CLUB With Joseph Urban's Act II Paris Cabaret from La Rondine used as a setting. Walter Damrosch, Master of Ceremonies Thomas Chalmers, Host Alma Gluck, Hostess THE BARTERED BRIDE: Furiant Rita de LePorte Mildred Schneider Giuseppe Bonfiglio Lucrezia Bori: La Violetera (Padilla) Pietro Cimara, Piano Göta Ljungberg: Swedish Folk Song Kurt Ruhrseitz, Piano Greta Stückgold & Gustav Schützendorf: Moder, ich vil ein Ding han Giuseppe Bamboschek, Piano Carmela and Rosa Ponselle: O Sole Mio; Funiculì, Funiculà Robert Armbruster Orchestra Grace Moore: selection from Millöcker's The Dubarry Lily Pons & Lauritz Melchior: Apache Dance Music: My Man Robert Armbruster, Piano Tito Schipa: Bartelemy: Pesca d'Amore (?) Chim-Fen: Armando Agnini The Galliettes: symbolizing a twenty-fifth birthday cake La Gioconda: Dance of the Hours Rosina Galli, Conductor Marcia Reale Giovinezza The Star Spangled Banner For He's a Jolly Good Fellow Vincenzo Bellezza, Conductor [In addition to the artists noted above, Giuseppe Cesati and Federico Longas were announced to participate in SCENE 2. STAGE AUDIENCE IN SCENE 2. Merle Alcock, Grace Anthony, Cecil Arden, Martha Attwood, Rose Bampton, Kitty Beale, Sophie Braslau, Vera Curtis, Margaret Fatman, Editha Fleischer, Olive Fremstad, Amelita Galli-Curci, Mabel Garrison, Alma Gluck, Frieda Hempel, Kathleen Howard, Louise Hunter, Clara Jacobo, Frida Leider, Margarete Matzenauer, Elizabeth Mayer, Mary Mellish, Lillian Moore, Nina Morgana, Maria Olszewska, Frances Peralta, Faina Petrova, Elena Rakowska, Marie Rappold, Elisabeth Rethberg, Jessie Rogge, Marcella Sembrich, Marie Sundelius, Marion Telva, Marie Tiffany, Henriette Wakefield, Phradie Wells, Florence Wickham. Armando Agnini, Max Altglass, Paul Althouse, Pasquale Amato, Angelo Badà, Vincenzo Bellezza, Richard Bonelli, Otello Ceroni, George Cehanovsky, Hans Clemens, Fausto Cleva, Giuseppe Conca, Walter Damrosch, Giuseppe De Luca, Rafaelo Díaz, Adamo Didur, Paul Eisler, Claudio Frigerio, Arnold Gabor, Louis Gruenberg, Henry Hadley, Orville Harrold, Louis Hasselmans, Edward Johnson, Jules Judels*, Giacomo Lauri-Volpi, Lionel Mapleson, Giovanni Martinelli, Hanns Niedecken-Gebhard, Giordano Paltrinieri, Tancredi Pasero, Armando Petrucci, Millo Picco, Ezio Pinza, Alexander Sanine, Carl Schlegel, Friedrich Schorr, Antonio Scotti, Tullio Serafin, Giulio Setti, Giuseppe Sturani, Siegfried Tappolet, Deems Taylor, Frederick Vajda, Reinald Werrenrath. STAGE MANAGER: Armando Agnini STAGE EFFECTS: Jacob Buchter*, Philip Crispano*, Irving Herold, Fred Hosli*, Filomena Pangoni ORCHESTRA MANAGER: Anthony Abarno* LIBRARIAN: Lionel Mapleson* Program committee: Vincenzo Bellezza, Chairman Lucrezia Bori, Armando Agnini, Artur Bodanzky, Louis Hasselmans, Earle R. Lewis, Wilfred Pelletier, Tullio Serafin, Giulio Setti, Giuseppe Sturani. * 25 years associated with the Metropolitan Opera Photograph of Giuseppe De Luca, Lily Pons, and Tito Schipa backstage at the Opera Surprise Party.

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