[Met Concert/Gala] CID:127250
Grand Sunday Night Program. Metropolitan Opera House: 12/17/1939.


Metropolitan Opera House
December 17, 1939


GRAND SUNDAY NIGHT PROGRAM

Le Nozze di Figaro: Overture

Lucia di Lammermoor: Regnava nel silenzio
Josephine Antoine

Lucia di Lammermoor: Recitative and Tombe degli avi miei
Nino Martini

Lucia di Lammermoor: Mad Scene
Josephine Antoine
Arthur Lora, flute

Lucia di Lammermoor: Sextet
Josephine Antoine
Thelma Votipka
Nino Martini
Leonard Warren
Louis D'Angelo
Nicholas Massue


Mignon: Act III (In Costume)
Mignon..................Risë Stevens
Wilhelm.................John Carter
Lothario................Nicola Moscona
Antonio.................John Gurney

Die Lustigen Weiber von Windsor: Overture

Manon: Act III, Scene 2 (In Costume)
Manon...................Susanne Fisher
Des Grieux..............Richard Crooks
Count des Grieux........Nicola Moscona

Over the Steppe (Gretchaninov); Don Juan Serenade (Tchaikovsky); Eli Eli (traditional/Schindler)
Walter Olitzki
Karl Riedel, piano

Aida: Ritorna vincitor
Zinka Milanov

Carmen: Act IV Dances
Monna Montes
Ruthanna Boris
Grant Mouradoff

Conductor...............Frank St. Leger

Director................Désiré Defrère
Choreographer...........Boris Romanoff


Added Index Entries for Subjects and Names

Subjects:
• 1939-40
• Concert: Conductor [St. Leger, Frank]
• Concert: [Romanoff, Boris]
• Concert: Piano [Riedel, Karl]
• Concert: [Martini, Nino]
• Concert: [Antoine, Josephine]
• Concert: [Milanov, Zinka]
• Concert: [Massue, Nicholas]
• Concert: [Boris, Ruthanna]
• Concert: [D'Angelo, Louis]
• Concert: [Montes, Monna]
• Concert: [Mouradoff, Grant]
• Concert: [Stevens, Risë]
• Concert: [Moscona, Nicola]
• Concert: [Lora, Arthur]
• Concert: [Votipka, Thelma]
• Concert: [Warren, Leonard]
• Concert: [Carter, John]
• Concert: [Gurney, John]
• Concert: [Fisher, Susanne]
• Concert: [Crooks, Richard]
• Concert: [Olitzki, Walter]
Selection/Excerpt
• Le Nozze di Figaro: Overture [St. Leger, Frank]
• Lucia di Lammermoor: Regnava nel silenzio [Antoine, Josephine/St. Leger, Frank]
• Lucia di Lammermoor: Tombe degli avi miei [Martini, Nino/St. Leger, Frank]
• Lucia di Lammermoor: Mad Scene [Antoine, Josephine/Lora, Arthur/St. Leger, Frank]
• Lucia di Lammermoor: Sextet [Antoine, Josephine/Votipka, Thelma/Martini, Nino/Warren, Leonard/Moscona, Nicola/Massue, Nicholas/St. Leger, Frank]
• Mignon: Act III [Stevens, Risë/Carter, John/Moscona, Nicola/Gurney, John/St. Leger, Frank]
• Die Lustigen Weiber von Windsor: Overture [St. Leger, Frank]
• Manon: Act III, Scene 2 [Fisher, Susanne/Crooks, Richard/Moscona, Nicola/St. Leger, Frank]
• Gretchaninov: Over the Steppe [Olitzki, Walter/Riedel, Karl]
• Tchaikovsky: Don Juan's Serenade [Olitzki, Walter/Riedel, Karl]
• Traditional/Schindler: Eli Eli [Olitzki, Walter/Riedel, Karl]
• Aida: Ritorna vincitor [Milanov, Frank/St. Leger, Frank]
• Carmen: Act IV Dances [Montes, Monna/Boris, Ruthanna/Mouradoff, Grant/St. Leger, Frank]
Met Careers
• Antoine, Josephine [Soprano]
• Boris, Ruthanna [Dancer]
• Carter, John [Tenor]
• Crooks, Richard [Tenor]
• D'Angelo, Louis [Baritone]
• Defrère, Désiré [Director]
• Fisher, Susanne [Soprano]
• Gurney, John [Bass]
• Lora, Arthur [Flute]
• Martini, Nino [Tenor]
• Massue, Nicholas [Tenor]
• Milanov, Zinka [Soprano]
• Montes, Monna [Dancer]
• Moscona, Nicola [Bass]
• Mouradoff, Grant [Dancer]
• Olitzki, Walter [Baritone]
• Riedel, Karl [Piano]
• Romanoff, Boris [Choreographer]
• St. Leger, Frank [Conductor]
• Stevens, Risë [Mezzo Soprano]
• Votipka, Thelma [Soprano]
• Warren, Leonard [Baritone]