[Met Concert/Gala] CID:138830
Gala Program. Metropolitan Opera House: 02/11/1945.


Metropolitan Opera House
February 11, 1945


GALA PROGRAM

Il Barbiere di Siviglia: Overture

Il Barbiere di Siviglia: Act I Excerpts
Christina Carroll
John Garris
Frank Valentino
Gerhard Pechner

Il Trovatore: Tacea la notte placida
Regina Resnik

Mignon: Je suis Titania
Mimi Benzell

La Gioconda: Cielo e mar!
Richard Tucker

La Gioconda: Dance of the Hours
Marina Svetlova
Alexis Dolinoff

Cavalleria Rusticana: Excerpts
Stella Roman
Anna Kaskas
Doris Doe
Armand Tokatyan
Frank Valentino

La Favorita: O mio Fernando
Hertha Glaz

La Traviata: Di Provenza
Lawrence Tibbett

Faust: Jewel Song
Frances Greer

Carmen: La fleur que tu m'avais jetée
Richard Tucker

Rigoletto: Quartet
Christina Carroll
Anna Kaskas
Jacques Gérard
Hugh Thompson

Lakmé: Act II Hindu Dances
Marina Svetlova
Monna Montes
Michael Arshansky
Alexis Dolinoff
Leon Varkas

Conductor...............Paul Breisach
Director................Désiré Defrère
Choreographer...........Laurent Novikoff

[The excerpts from Il Barbiere di Siviglia and Cavalleria Rusticana were performed in costume.]


Added Index Entries for Subjects and Names

Subjects:
• 1944-45
• Concert: Conductor [Breisach, Paul]
• Concert: [Novikoff, Laurent]
• Concert: [Tibbett, Lawrence]
• Concert: [Tokatyan, Armand]
• Concert: [Valentino, Frank]
• Concert: [Doe, Doris]
• Concert: [Roman, Stella]
• Concert: [Montes, Monna]
• Concert: [Kaskas, Anna]
• Concert: [Dolinoff, Alexis]
• Concert: [Varkas, Leon]
• Concert: [Arshansky, Michael]
• Concert: [Pechner, Gerhard]
• Concert: [Greer, Frances]
• Concert: [Gérard, Jacques]
• Concert: [Glaz, Hertha]
• Concert: [Garris, John]
• Concert: [Svetlova, Marina]
• Concert: [Carroll, Christina]
• Concert: [Benzell, Mimi]
• Concert: [Thompson, Hugh]
• Concert: [Resnik, Regina]
• Concert: [Tucker, Richard]
Selection/Excerpt
• Il Barbiere di Siviglia: Overture [Breisach, Paul]
• Il Barbiere di Siviglia: Act I Excerpts [Carroll, Christina/Garris, John/Valentino, Frank/Pechner, Gerhard/Breisach, Paul]
• Il Trovatore: Tacea la notte placida [Resnik, Regina/Breisach, Paul]
• Mignon: Je suis Titania [Benzell, Mimi/Breisach, Paul]
• La Gioconda: Cielo e mar! [Tucker, Richard/Breisach, Paul]
• La Gioconda: Dance of the Hours [Svetlova, Marina/Dolinoff, Alexis/Breisach, Paul]
• Cavalleria Rusticana: Excerpts [Roman, Stella/Kaskas, Anna/Doe, Doris/Tokatyan, Armand/Valentino, Frank/Breisach, Paul]
• La Favorita: O mio Fernando [Glaz, Hertha/Breisach, Paul]
• La Traviata: Di Provenza [Tibbett, Lawrence/Breisach, Paul]
• Faust: Jewel Song [Greer, Frances/Breisach, Paul]
• Carmen: La fleur que tu m'avais jetée [Tucker, Richard/Breisach, Paul]
• Rigoletto: Quartet [Carroll, Christina/Kaskas, Anna/Gérard, Jacques/Thompson, Hugh/Breisach, Paul]
• Lakmé: Act II Hindu Dances [Svetlova, Marina/Montes, Monna/Arshansky, Michael/Dolinoff, Alexis/Varkas, Leon/Breisach, Paul]
Met Careers
• Arshansky, Michael [Dancer]
• Benzell, Mimi [Soprano]
• Breisach, Paul [Conductor]
• Carroll, Christina [Soprano]
• Defrère, Désiré [Director]
• Doe, Doris [Mezzo Soprano]
• Dolinoff, Alexis [Dancer]
• Garris, John [Tenor]
• Gérard, Jacques [Tenor]
• Glaz, Hertha [Mezzo Soprano]
• Greer, Frances [Soprano]
• Kaskas, Anna [Mezzo Soprano]
• Montes, Monna [Dancer]
• Novikoff, Laurent [Choreographer]
• Pechner, Gerhard [Bass]
• Resnik, Regina [Soprano, Mezzo Soprano]
• Roman, Stella [Soprano]
• Svetlova, Marina [Dancer]
• Thompson, Hugh [Baritone]
• Tibbett, Lawrence [Baritone]
• Tokatyan, Armand [Tenor]
• Tucker, Richard [Tenor]
• Valentino, Frank [Baritone]
• Varkas, Leon [Dancer]