[Met Performance] CID:82260



Rom?o et Juliette
Metropolitan Opera House, Mon, December 4, 1922




Rom?o et Juliette (112)
Charles Gounod | Jules Barbier/Michel Carr?
Rom?o
Beniamino Gigli

Juliette
Lucrezia Bori

Fr?re Laurent
L?on Rothier

St?phano
Raymonde Delaunois

Mercutio
Giuseppe De Luca

Benvolio
Giordano Paltrinieri

Gertrude
Henriette Wakefield

Capulet
Adamo Didur

Tybalt
Rafaelo D?az

P?ris
Millo Picco

Gr?gorio
Paolo Ananian

Duke of Verona
Louis D'Angelo


Conductor
Louis Hasselmans







Review 1:

Review of P. C. R. in Musical America

"Romeo" Woos Again

The newly attired "Romeo et Juliette" had its first repetition on Monday evening, and whatever subscribers and standees thought of it, they had occasion to be thankful that Louis Hasselmans tuned not his mood to the profundity of Mr. Urban's blues. They had other things to be thankful for. Place Beniamino Gigli in the tunic of Romeo and he may not retain that dear perfection which Juliet tells the moon the stripling Montague owes without his title, but call Mr. Gigli by any name and his song will still be sweet. On this occasion he sang with a beauty of tone that made the frayed scenes of Gounod interesting. And what moon might not be envious before Lucrezia Bori's Juliet. Miss Barrymore will shortly lean her cheek upon her hand, and Jane Cowl is also choosing her costumes for balcony and tomb, but here is a Juliet from Verona who has won the race, albeit her goal was a somewhat different stage. Rafaelo Diaz swaggered in Tybalt's doublet, in lieu of Angelo Bada, indisposed, and he sang and acted with a fine youthful vigor, admirably suited to the role. Between the two performances, Adamo Didur Capulet lost his weight of years, dropped his octogenarian habits and became a more feasible pater of his daughter. Otherwise there were no changes.



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