[Met Performance] CID:79250



Manon Lescaut
Metropolitan Opera House, Sat, December 3, 1921




Manon Lescaut (55)
Giacomo Puccini | Luigi Illica/Giuseppe Giacosa/Marco Praga/Ruggero Leoncavallo
Manon
Frances Alda

Des Grieux
Aureliano Pertile

Lescaut
Antonio Scotti

Geronte
Louis D'Angelo

Edmondo
Giordano Paltrinieri

Innkeeper
Millo Picco

Solo Madrigalist
Marion Telva

Dancing Master
Angelo Bad?

Sergeant
Vincenzo Reschiglian

Lamplighter
Pietro Audisio

Captain
Paolo Ananian


Conductor
Gennaro Papi


Director
Armando Agnini

Set Designer
Mario Sala

Costume Designer
Adolfo Hohenstein





Manon Lescaut received two performances this season.

Review 1:

Review signed R. M. K. in Musical America

A Popular 'Manon Lescaut'

Puccini's "Manon Lescaut" was the opera of Saturday evening, with Frances Alda in the title role and Antonio Scotti as an inimitable Lescaut. Aureliano Pertile made his second appearance with the company on this occasion. His voice, in the role of Des Grieux, was well adapted to expression of the poignant, though a tendency to force it in climaxes occasionally produced an unpleasant "edge." Mme. Alda was a gracious and a vocally effective heroine, in the second and third acts particularly, singing in full voice and acting with dramatic felicity. Others in the cast were Louis D'Angelo, a restrained Geronte, Giordano Paltrinieri as Edmondo,; Angelo Bade as the Ballet Master, Millo Picco as L'Oste, Marion Telva as a Musicia,; Vincenzo Reschiglian as the Sergeant, Pietro Audisio as the Lamplighter, and Paolo Ananian as the Commander of the deportation barque.

The chorus had slight difficulty with the ensembles, though the work at places betrayed consequences of infrequency of production. The second act was in many ways the highest point in the performance, not least in happiness of investiture. The orchestra under Mr. Papi played not too strenuously through the pleasantly melodious score.



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