[Met Performance] CID:134230
Le Nozze di Figaro {74} Metropolitan Opera House: 12/16/1942.


Metropolitan Opera House
December 16, 1942


LE NOZZE DI FIGARO {74}
Mozart-Da Ponte

Figaro..................Ezio Pinza
Susanna.................Bidú Sayao
Count Almaviva..........John Brownlee
Countess Almaviva.......Eleanor Steber
Cherubino...............Jarmila Novotna
Dr. Bartolo.............Salvatore Baccaloni
Marcellina..............Irra Petina
Don Basilio.............Alessio De Paolis
Antonio.................Louis D'Angelo
Barbarina...............Marita Farell
Don Curzio..............John Garris
Peasant.................Mona Paulee
Peasant.................Lillian Raymondi
Dance...................Julia Barashkova
Dance...................Mary Smith
Dance...................James Lyons
Dance...................Allan Wayne

Conductor...............Bruno Walter

Director................Herbert Graf
Set designer............Jonel Jorgulesco
Costume designer........Ladislas Czettel
Choreographer...........Laurent Novikoff

Le Nozze di Figaro received seven performances this season.

Revuew:

The new casting of the evening was the appearance of the young American soprano Eleanor Steber as the Countess for the first time. Miss Steber made a handsome Countess as far as sheer looks and carriage went. She also sang the part with credit. Since she begins with a searching air, "Porgi amor", her start was shaky. But she improved as the evening went along, and her handling of "Dove sono" was the work of a young artist who is distinctly up to an exacting part.

Howard Taubman
New York Times


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