[Met Performance] CID:103230



La Gioconda
Metropolitan Opera House, Fri, November 15, 1929 Matinee





La Gioconda (110)
Amilcare Ponchielli | Arrigo Boito
La Gioconda
Leonora Corona

Enzo
Beniamino Gigli

Laura
Julia Claussen

Barnaba
Mario Basiola

Alvise
Ezio Pinza

La Cieca
Gladys Swarthout

Singer/Zu?ne
Alfredo Gandolfi

Is?po/Singer
Giordano Paltrinieri

Monk
Louis D'Angelo

Steersman
Millo Picco


Conductor
Tullio Serafin







Review 1:

Review by Olin Downes in the New York Times:

Gladys Swarthout was cordially greeted in her first operatic role here at yesterday's Metropolitan matinee of "La Gioconda." Miss Swarthout, a native of Kansas City, had appeared in the West with the Chicago Civic and Ravinia Park companies, and had sung in a Sunday opera concert on Broadway as well as the Metropolitan's recent performance of "The Sunken Bell" in Philadelphia.

She showed yesterday, as La Cieca, a voice of good quality, depth and volume in the blind mother's air "Voce di donna," and acted the character with intelligent sympathy.



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