[Met Concert/Gala] CID:137000
Gala Program. Metropolitan Opera House: 02/27/1944.


Metropolitan Opera House
February 27, 1944


GALA PROGRAM

Le Nozze di Figaro: Overture

La Traviata: Act I (In Costume)
Violetta................Nadine Conner
Flora...................Thelma Votipka
Alfredo.................John Garris
Alessio De Paolis
George Cehanovsky
Louis D'Angelo
Lorenzo Alvary

Don Pasquale: Quel guardo il cavaliere
Licia Albanese

Simon Boccanegra: Il lacerato spirito
Alexander Kipnis

La Gioconda: Dance of the Hours
Marina Svetlova, Alexis Dolinoff, Corps de Ballet

Boris Godunov: Inn Scene (In Costume)
Innkeeper...............Mona Paulee
Dimitri.................Jacques Gérard
Varlaam.................Virgilio Lazzari
Missail.................Lodovico Oliviero
Sergeant................Osie Hawkins

Il Trovatore: D'amor sull'ali rosee
Ella Flesch

Il Barbiere di Siviglia: Largo al factotum
John Brownlee

Rigoletto: Caro nome
Patrice Munsel

Aida: Act II, Scene 2 (In Costume)
Aida....................Doris Doree
Amneris.................Margaret Harshaw
Radamès.................Arthur Carron
Amonasro................Frank Valentino
Ramfis..................Nicola Moscona
King....................Osie Hawkins
Dance:
Marina Svetlova, Monna Montes, Nina Youskevitch, Michael Arshansky, Alexis Dolinoff, Leon Varkas, Corps de ballet

Conductor...............Pietro Cimara
Director................Désiré Defrère
Choreographer...........Laurent Novikoff


Added Index Entries for Subjects and Names

Subjects:
• 1943-44
• Concert: Conductor [Cimara, Pietro]
• Concert: [Novikoff, Laurent]
• Concert: [Brownlee, John]
• Concert: [Votipka, Thelma]
• Concert: [De Paolis, Alessio]
• Concert: [Lazzari, Virgilio]
• Concert: [Albanese, Licia]
• Concert: [D'Angelo, Louis]
• Concert: [Moscona, Nicola]
• Concert: [Valentino, Frank]
• Concert: [Montes, Monna]
• Concert: [Carron, Arthur]
• Concert: [Dolinoff, Alexis]
• Concert: [Varkas, Leon]
• Concert: [Paulee, Mona]
• Concert: [Arshansky, Michael]
• Concert: [Kipnis, Alexander]
Selection/Excerpt
• Le Nozze di Figaro: Overture [Cimara, Pietro]
• La Traviata: Act I [Conner, Nadine/Votipka, Thelma/Garris, John/De Paolis/Cehanovsky/D'Angelo/Alvary/Cimara, Pietro]
• Don Pasquale: Quel guardo il cavaliere [Albanese, Licia/Cimara, Pietro]
• Simon Boccanegra: Il lacerato spirito [Kipnis, Alexander/Cimara, Pietro]
• La Gioconda: Dance of the Hours [Svetlova, Marina/Dolinoff, Alexis/Corps de Ballet/Cimara, Pietro]
• Boris Godunov: Inn Scene [Paulee, Mona/Gérard, Jacques/Lazzari, Virgilio/Oliviero, Lodovico/Hawkins, Osie/Cimara, Pietro]
• Il Trovatore: D'amor sull'ali rosee [Flesch, Ella/Cimara, Pietro]
• Il Barbiere di Siviglia: Largo al factotum [Brownlee, John/Cimara, Pietro]
• Rigoletto: Caro nome [Munsel, Patrice/Cimara, Pietro]
• Aida: Act II, Scene 2 [Doree/Harshaw/Carron/Valentino/Moscona/Hawkins/Svetlova/Montes/Youskevitch/Arshansky/Dolinoff/Varkas/Cimara]
Met Careers
• Albanese, Licia [Soprano]
• Alvary, Lorenzo [Bass]
• Arshansky, Michael [Dancer]
• Brownlee, John [Baritone]
• Carron, Arthur [Tenor]
• Cehanovsky, George [Baritone]
• Cimara, Pietro [Conductor]
• Conner, Nadine [Soprano]
• D'Angelo, Louis [Baritone]
• De Paolis, Alessio [Tenor]
• Defrère, Désiré [Director]
• Dolinoff, Alexis [Dancer]
• Doree, Doris [Soprano]
• Flesch, Ella [Soprano]
• Garris, John [Tenor]
• Gérard, Jacques [Tenor]
• Harshaw, Margaret [Mezzo Soprano, Soprano]
• Hawkins, Osie [Baritone]
• Kipnis, Alexander [Bass]
• Lazzari, Virgilio [Bass]
• Montes, Monna [Dancer]
• Moscona, Nicola [Bass]
• Munsel, Patrice [Soprano]
• Novikoff, Laurent [Choreographer]
• Oliviero, Lodovico [Tenor]
• Paulee, Mona [Mezzo Soprano]
• Svetlova, Marina [Dancer]
• Valentino, Frank [Baritone]
• Varkas, Leon [Dancer]
• Votipka, Thelma [Soprano]
• Youskevitch, Nina [Dancer]