[Met Concert/Gala] CID:147090
Gala Performance. Metropolitan Opera House: 02/15/1948.


Metropolitan Opera House
February 15, 1948
Benefit for the Welfare Fund


GALA PERFORMANCE

La Traviata: Act I

Violetta................Eleanor Steber
Alfredo.................Richard Tucker
Flora...................Thelma Votipka
Gastone.................Alessio De Paolis
Douphol.................George Cehanovsky
D'Obigny................John Baker
Grenvil.................Louis D'Angelo [Last appearance]

Conductor...............Giuseppe Antonicelli

Designer................Jonel Jorgulesco


Il Barbiere di Siviglia: Act II

Figaro..................John Brownlee
Rosina..................Carmen Gracia
Almaviva................Felix Knight
Bartolo.................Salvatore Baccaloni
Basilio.................Giacomo Vaghi
Berta...................Thelma Altman
Sergeant................Anthony Marlowe

Conductor...............Pietro Cimara
Set designer............Joseph Urban

[In the Act II Lesson Scene of Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Gracia sang Benedict's Il Carnevale di Venezia.]


Aida: Act II

Aida....................Daniza Ilitsch
Radamès.................Ramon Vinay
Amneris.................Cloe Elmo
Amonasro................Giuseppe Valdengo
Ramfis..................Nicola Moscona
King....................Philip Kinsman
Dance...................Audrey Keane
Dance...................Lorraine Ammerman
Dance...................Elissa Minet
Dance...................Ilona Murai
Dance...................Leon Varkas

Conductor...............Emil Cooper

Set designer............Angelo Parravicini
Costume designer........Ethel Fox
Choreographer...........Boris Romanoff

Director................Désiré Defrère



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