[Met Concert/Gala] CID:122950
Operatic Program. Metropolitan Opera House: 02/13/1938.


Metropolitan Opera House
February 13, 1938


OPERATIC PROGRAM

The Bartered Bride: Excerpts
Marie...................Hilda Burke
Kathinka................Lucielle Browning
Agnes...................Anna Kaskas
Esmeralda...............Natalie Bodanya
Hans....................Sydney Rayner
Wenzel..................George Rasely
Kezal...................Louis D'Angelo
Kruschina...............Wilfred Engelman
Micha...................John Gurney
Springer................Norman Cordon
Muff....................Ludwig Burgstaller
Dance 1 "Polka": Leda Anchutina, William Dollar, American Ballet Ensemble
Dance 2 "Furiante": Madeline Leweck, American Ballet Ensemble
Dance 3 "Dance of the Comedians": American Ballet Ensemble

Pagliacci: Prologue
Lawrence Tibbett

Pagliacci: Act I Excerpts
Nedda...................Susanne Fisher
Canio...................Frederick Jagel
Tonio...................Robert Weede
Silvio..................Lawrence Tibbett
Beppe...................Giordano Paltrinieri


Aida: Nile Scene
Aida....................Zinka Milanov
Radamés.................Sydney Rayner
Amonasro................George Cehanovsky


Conductor...............Wilfred Pelletier
Director................Désiré Defrère
Choreographer...........George Balanchine

[The entire concert was performed in costume.]


Added Index Entries for Subjects and Names

Subjects:
• 1937-38
• Concert: Conductor [Pelletier, Wilfred]
• Concert: [Balanchine, George]
• Concert: [Tibbett, Lawrence]
• Concert: [Burke, Hilda]
• Concert: [Fisher, Susanne]
• Concert: [Jagel, Frederick]
• Concert: [Leweck, Madeline]
• Concert: [Cehanovsky, George]
• Concert: [Paltrinieri, Giordano]
• Concert: [Anchutina, Leda]
• Concert: [Dollar, William]
• Concert: [Rasely, George]
• Concert: [Kaskas, Anna]
• Concert: [Bodanya, Natalie]
• Concert: [Browning, Lucielle]
• Concert: [Cordon, Norman]
• Concert: [Gurney, John]
• Concert: [Rayner, Sydney]
• Concert: [Engelman, Wilfred]
• Concert: [D'Angelo, Louis]
• Concert: [Burgstaller, Ludwig]
• Concert: [Weede, Robert]
• Concert: [Milanov, Zinka]
Selection/Excerpt
• The Bartered Bride: Excerpts [Burke/Browning/Kaskas/Bodanya/Rayner/Rasely/D'Angelo/Engelman/Gurney/Cordon/Burstaller/Pelletier, Wilfred]
• The Bartered Bride: Ballet [Anchutina/Dollar/Leweck/American Ballet Ensemble/Pelletier, Wilfred]
• Pagliacci: Prologue [Tibbett, Lawrence/Pelletier, Wilfred]
• Pagliacci: Act I Excerpts [Fisher, Susanne/Jagel, Frederick/Weede, Robert/Tibbett, Lawrence/Paltrinieri/Pelletier, Wilfred]
• Aida: Nile Scene [Milanov, Zinka/Rayner, Sydney/Cehanovsky, George/Pelletier, Wilfred]
Met Careers
• Anchutina, Leda [Dancer]
• Balanchine, George [Choreographer]
• Bodanya, Natalie [Soprano]
• Browning, Lucielle [Mezzo Soprano]
• Burgstaller, Ludwig [Tenor]
• Burke, Hilda [Soprano]
• Cehanovsky, George [Baritone]
• Cordon, Norman [Bass]
• D'Angelo, Louis [Baritone]
• Defrère, Désiré [Director]
• Dollar, William [Dancer]
• Engelman, Wilfred [Baritone]
• Fisher, Susanne [Soprano]
• Gurney, John [Bass]
• Jagel, Frederick [Tenor]
• Kaskas, Anna [Mezzo Soprano]
• Leweck, Madeline [Dancer]
• Milanov, Zinka [Soprano]
• Paltrinieri, Giordano [Tenor]
• Pelletier, Wilfred [Conductor]
• Rasely, George [Tenor]
• Rayner, Sydney [Tenor]
• Tibbett, Lawrence [Baritone]
• Weede, Robert [Baritone]