[Met Performance] CID:80360



Cavalleria Rusticana
Pagliacci
Metropolitan Opera House, Fri, February 24, 1922




Cavalleria Rusticana (207)
Pietro Mascagni | Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti, Guido Menasci
Santuzza
Maria Jeritza

Turiddu
Orville Harrold

Lola
Flora Perini

Alfio
Millo Picco

Mamma Lucia
Marie Mattfeld


Conductor
Roberto Moranzoni


Pagliacci (215)
Ruggero Leoncavallo | Ruggero Leoncavallo
Nedda
Lucrezia Bori

Canio
Manuel Salazar

Tonio
Renato Zanelli

Silvio
Vincenzo Reschiglian

Beppe
Giordano Paltrinieri


Conductor
Roberto Moranzoni







Review 1:

Review of Oscar Thompson in Musical America

New Singers in Double Bill

Novelty was scarcely to be expected in the double bill of "Cavalleria Rusticana" and "Pagliacci," Friday's operas at the Metropolitan. Yet various changes in cast brought a measure of fresh interest to the verismo twins. Manuel Salazar, remembered as a popular tenor of the San Carlo Company, and who made an eleventh-hour emergency appearance at the Metropolitan in "Forza del Destino" some weeks ago when another tenor was ill, made his formal debut as Canio. He had a considerable measure of popular success and sang the role creditably. The voice is not a large one in the Metropolitan, nor one of uniformly good quality; and his acting on this occasion was of a routine character, but it sufficed to put him in evident favor with his audience. Renato Zanelli sang Tonio in place of Antonio Scotti, who had been announced to make one of his rare appearances in the r?le. The substitute baritone sang very well, indeed, and was rousingly applauded after the Prologue. Luerezia Bori again was a fascinating Nedda. Vincenzo Reschiglian, a competent singer of minor roles, was Silvio.

In "Cavalleria Rusticana," Orville Harrold succeeded in making Turiddu a more than customarily disagreeable personage, thereby heightening the sympathetic effect of Maria Jeritza's Santuzza. Millo Picco was the Alflo and Marie Mattfeld Lucia. Mr. Moranzoni conducted both operas.



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