[Met Concert/Gala] CID:140220
Gala Program. Metropolitan Opera House: 12/16/1945.
Metropolitan Opera House
December 16, 1945
GALA PROGRAM
Il Barbiere di Siviglia: Overture
La Traviata: Act I
Violetta................Christina Carroll
Flora...................Thelma Altman
Alfredo.................Thomas Hayward
Gastone.................Lodovico Oliviero
Baron Douphol...........George Cehanovsky
Marquis D'Obigny........John Baker
Dr. Grenvil.............Louis D'Angelo
Pagliacci: Vesti la giubba
Raoul Jobin
Cavalleria Rusticana: Voi lo sapete
Florence Kirk
Il Barbiere di Siviglia: Largo al factotum
Leonard Warren
La Favorita: O mio Fernando
Martha Lipton
La Gioconda: Dance of the Hours
Marina Svetlova
Leon Varkas
Josef Carmassi
Rigoletto: Act III Excerpts
Gilda...................Mimi Benzell
Maddalena...............Martha Lipton
Duke of Mantua..........Anthony Marlowe
Rigoletto...............George Cehanovsky
Sparafucile.............William Hargrave
Boris Godunov: Song of Varlaam
Salvatore Baccaloni
Aida: Ritorna vincitor
Florence Kirk
Carmen: La fleur que tu m'avais jetée
Raoul Jobin
Carmen: Je dis que rien ne m'épouvante
Lillian Raymondi
Faust: Kermesse Scene
Marguerite..............Maxine Stellman
Siebel..................Thelma Altman
Faust...................Jacques Gérard
Valentin................Frank Valentino
Mephistopheles..........William Hargrave
Wagner..................John Baker
Conductor...............Paul Breisach
Director................Désiré Defrère
Choreographer...........Boris Romanoff
[The excerpts from La Traviata, Rigoletto and Faust were performed in costume.]
Added Index Entries for Subjects and Names
Subjects:
- 1945-46
- Concert: Conductor [Breisach, Paul]
- Concert: [Romanoff, Boris]
- Concert: [Breisach, Paul]
- Concert: [Carroll, Christina]
- Concert: [Hayward, Thomas]
- Concert: [Oliviero, Lodovico]
- Concert: [Cehanovsky, George]
- Concert: [D'Angelo, Louis]
- Concert: [Warren, Leonard]
- Concert: [Lipton, Martha]
- Concert: [Carmassi, Josef]
- Concert: [Svetlova, Marina]
- Concert: [Varkas, Leon]
- Concert: [Benzell, Mimi]
- Concert: [Marlowe, Anthony]
- Concert: [Baccaloni, Salvatore]
- Concert: [Kirk, Florence]
- Concert: [Jobin, Raoul]
- Concert: [Raymondi, Lillian]
- Concert: [Stellman, Maxine]
- Concert: [Altman, Thelma]
- Concert: [Gérard, Jacques]
- Concert: [Valentino, Frank]
- Concert: [Hargrave, William]
- Concert: [Baker, John]
Selection/Excerpt
- Il Barbiere di Siviglia: Overture [Breisach, Paul]
- La Traviata: Act I [Carroll, Christina/Altman, Thelma/Hayward, Thomas/Oliviero/Cehanovsky/Baker/D'Angelo/Breisach]
- Pagliacci: Vesti la giubba [Jobin, Raoul/Breisach, Paul]
- Cavalleria Rusticana: Voi lo sapete [Kirk, Florence/Breisach, Paul]
- Il Barbiere di Siviglia: Largo al factotum [Warren, Leonard/Breisach, Paul]
- La Favorita: O mio Fernando [Lipton, Martha/Breisach, Paul]
- La Gioconda: Dance of the Hours [Svetlova, Marina/Varkas, Leon/Carmassi, Josef/Breisach, Paul]
- Rigoletto: Act III Excerpts [Benzell, Mimi/Lipton, Martha/Marlowe, Anthony/Cehanovsky, George/Hargrave, William/Breisach, Paul]
- Boris Godunov: In the town of Kazan [Baccaloni, Salvatore/Breisach, Paul]
- Aida: Ritorna vincitor [Kirk, Florence/Breisach, Paul]
- Carmen: La fleur que tu m'avais jetée [Jobin, Raoul/Breisach, Paul]
- Carmen: Je dis que rien ne m'épouvante [Raymondi, Lillian/Breisach, Paul]
- Faust: Kermesse Scene [Stellman, Maxine/Altman, Thelma/Gérard, Jacques/Valentino, Frank/Hargrave, William/Baker, John/Breisach, Paul]
Met Careers
- Altman, Thelma [Mezzo Soprano]
- Baccaloni, Salvatore [Bass]
- Baker, John [Baritone]
- Benzell, Mimi [Soprano]
- Breisach, Paul [Conductor]
- Carmassi, Josef [Dancer]
- Carroll, Christina [Soprano]
- Cehanovsky, George [Baritone]
- D'Angelo, Louis [Baritone]
- Defrère, Désiré [Director]
- Gérard, Jacques [Tenor]
- Hargrave, William [Bass]
- Hayward, Thomas [Tenor]
- Jobin, Raoul [Tenor]
- Kirk, Florence [Soprano]
- Lipton, Martha [Mezzo Soprano]
- Marlowe, Anthony [Tenor]
- Oliviero, Lodovico [Tenor]
- Raymondi, Lillian [Soprano]
- Romanoff, Boris [Choreographer]
- Stellman, Maxine [Soprano]
- Svetlova, Marina [Dancer]
- Valentino, Frank [Baritone]
- Varkas, Leon [Dancer]
- Warren, Leonard [Baritone]
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