[Met Performance] CID:149610
La Bohème {420} Metropolitan Opera House: 01/25/1949.
(Review)
Metropolitan Opera House
January 25, 1949
LA BOHÈME {420}
Mimì....................Bidú Sayao
Rodolfo.................Richard Tucker
Musetta.................Frances Greer
Marcello................Frank Valentino
Schaunard...............George Cehanovsky
Colline.................Nicola Moscona
Benoit..................Melchiorre Luise
Alcindoro...............Melchiorre Luise
Parpignol...............Anthony Marlowe
Sergeant................Lawrence Davidson
Conductor...............Giuseppe Antonicelli
Review of Robert Sabin in Musical America
Richard Tucker and Frances Greer made their first appearances of the season as Rodolfo and Musetta in the third performance of Puccini's opera, given as a benefit for the New York Protestant Episcopal City Mission Society. The rest of the cast was made up of Bidu Sayao, as Mimi; George Cehanovsky, as Schaunard; Francesco Valentino, as Marcello; Nicola Moscona, as Colline; Melchiorre Luise, as Benoit and Alcindoro ; Anthony Marlowe, as Parpignol; and Lawrence Davidson, as the Sergeant.
Both Mr. Tucker and Miss Greer were in good voice, and the performance as a whole went the way of respectable routine. Even Giuseppe Antonicelli, who usually conducts too vehemently, if anything, seemed to be in no mood to take Puccini's pretty make-believe at all seriously. But the audience seemed happy and the singers were enthusiastically received.