[Met Performance] CID:100990



Lucia di Lammermoor
Metropolitan Opera House, Fri, January 11, 1929




Lucia di Lammermoor (141)
Gaetano Donizetti | Salvadore Cammarano
Lucia
Amelita Galli-Curci

Edgardo
Frederick Jagel

Enrico
Giuseppe Danise

Raimondo
Ezio Pinza

Normanno
Giordano Paltrinieri

Alisa
Philine Falco

Arturo
Alfio Tedesco


Conductor
Giuseppe Bamboschek


Director
Armando Agnini

Set Designer
James Fox

Costume Designer
Mathilde Castel-Bert





Lucia di Lammermoor received five performances this season.

Review 1:

Review of Pitts Sanborn in the New York Telegram

'Lucia di Lammermoor' at Metropolitan Opera House

Amelita Galli-Curci Appears as the Demented Heroine with Frederick Jagel as the Master of Ravenswood.

A second Galli-Curci opera entered the current Metropolitan repertory last evening. It was "Lucia di Lammermoor," as whose ultimately demented heroine Mme. Galli-Curci has the opportunity to exhibit not only her fluent coloratura, but also her skill in the treatment of recitative and her musicianly delivery of cantilena. Unfortunately the distinguished soprano was yesterday less well disposed vocally that she had been in the "Barber of Seville" on Monday night. Nevertheless, she gathered from the large audience a rich guerdon of applause

Frederick Jagel is rapidly becoming Mr. Gatti-Casazza's general utility tenor. Now he has added to his growing gallery of operatic heroes his delineation of the gloomy Master of Ravenswood. It is only fair to the former Brooklynite to state emphatically that in some other roles he has been heard to better advantage.

Mr. Danise as Henry Ashton and Mr. Pinza as Parson Bide-the-Bent comported themselves with grave decorum, and Mr. Bamboschek, replacing Mr. Bellezza, latest recruit of the Giulian sick-list, beat time after his own fashion. Even the much enduring scenery looked dejected.



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