[Met Performance] CID:227040
Cavalleria Rusticana {472}
Pagliacci {512} Metropolitan Opera House: 09/24/1971.

(Debuts: Christopher Keene, Frank Coffey)


Metropolitan Opera House
September 24, 1971


Manon Lescaut: Intermezzo
Raymond Gniewek, Conductor



CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA {472}
Mascagni-Targioni-Tozzetti/Menasci

Santuzza................Fiorenza Cossotto
Turiddu.................Carlo Bergonzi
Lola....................Nedda Casei
Alfio...................Anselmo Colzani
Mamma Lucia.............Jean Kraft

Conductor...............Christopher Keene [Debut]

Production..............Franco Zeffirelli
Stage Director..........Fabrizio Melano
Designer................Franco Zeffirelli

Cavalleria Rusticana received fourteen performances this season.


PAGLIACCI {512}
Leoncavallo-Leoncavallo

Nedda...................Teresa Stratas
Canio...................James McCracken
Tonio...................Sherrill Milnes
Silvio..................Dominic Cossa
Beppe...................Robert Schmorr
Villager................Fawayne Murphy
Villager................Frank Coffey [Debut]

Conductor...............Christopher Keene

Production..............Franco Zeffirelli
Stage Director..........Fabrizio Melano
Designer................Franco Zeffirelli

Pagliacci received fourteen performances this season.

[The Intermezzo from Manon Lescaut, conducted by concertmaster Raymond Gniewek, was played preceding Cavalleria Rusticana in memory of Fausto Cleva, who died on August 6.]


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