[Met Concert/Gala] CID:122500
Gala Program. Metropolitan Opera House: 01/9/1938.


Metropolitan Opera House
January 9, 1938


GALA PROGRAM

The Bartered Bride: Overture

Il Trovatore: Miserere
Irene Jessner
Sydney Rayner
Metropolitan Opera Chorus

Don Giovanni: Madamina
Norman Cordon

Pagliacci: No! Pagliaccio non son
Sydney Rayner

Die Walküre: Act I Conclusion
Irene Jessner
Carl Hartmann


Mozartiana {2}
P. I. Tchaikovsky
First Variation: Leda Anchutina, William Dollar
Second Variation: Annabelle Lyon
Third Variation: Elise Reiman
Fourth Variation: American Ballet Ensemble
Fifth Variation: Gisella Caccialanza, Rabana Hasburgh, Josef Levinoff
Sixth Variation: Holly Howard, Charles Laskey
Finale: American Ballet Ensemble

Costume designer........Christian Bérard
Choreographer...........George Balanchine

La Traviata: Act III
Violetta................Vina Bovy
Annina..................Lucielle Browning
Alfredo.................Nino Martini
Germont.................Robert Weede
Dr. Grenvil.............Norman Cordon

Widor: Toccata
Anonymous: Aria
Bossi: Gigue
Manari: Étude de Concert
Fernando Germani, Organ

Carmen: Act II
Carmen..................Bruna Castagna
Frasquita...............Thelma Votipka
Mercedes................Helen Olheim
Don José................René Maison
Escamillo...............Robert Weede
Remendado...............Giordano Paltrinieri
Dancaïre................George Cehanovsky
Zuniga..................Louis D'Angelo

Conductor...............Wilfred Pelletier

Director................Désiré Defrère

[The excerpts from Il Trovatore, La Traviata and Carmen were performed in costume.]


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