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[Met Concert or Gala] CID:113350
Gatti-Casazza 25th Anniversary
Metropolitan Opera House, Sun, February 26, 1933 Broadcast
Gatti-Casazza 25th Anniversary
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Search by title: Gatti-Casazza 25th Anniversary,
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Gatti-Casazza 25th Anniversary
Metropolitan Opera House, Sun, February 26, 1933 Broadcast
Gatti-Casazza 25th Anniversary
Metropolitan Opera House
February 26, 1933 Broadcast
GATTI-CASAZZA 25TH ANNIVERSARY
In Celebration of the Twenty-fifth Year of the Metropolitan Opera
under the direction of GIULIO GATTI-CASAZZA
VOCAL AND INSTRUMENTAL CONCERT
Mefistofele: Prologue
Metropolitan Opera Chorus
Giulio Setti, Conductor
Lucia di Lammermoor: Sextet
Lily Pons, Philine Falco,
Giacomo Lauri-Volpi, Armando Borgioli,Tancredi Pasero, Angelo Bad?
Giuseppe Sturani, Conductor [Last appearance]
The King's Henchman: Act I Finale
Edward Johnson, Richard Bonelli,
Arthur Anderson, Max Altglass
Tullio Serafin, Conductor
Ernani: O sommo Carlo
Rosa Ponselle, Frederick Jagel, Giuseppe De Luca,
Ezio Pinza, Alfio Tedesco
Tullio Serafin, Conductor
A Few Words by Edward Johnson in tribute to Giulio Gatti-Casazza
Lucrezia Bori and an appeal for funds
Remarks by Paul D. Cravath and Marcella Sembrich
Samson et Dalila: Act I, Scene 1
Giovanni Martinelli, Louis D'Angelo
Metropolitan Opera Chorus
Louis Hasselmans, Conductor
Tannh?user: Act II Finale
Elisabeth Rethberg,
Lauritz Melchior, Friedrich Schorr, Ludwig Hofmann,
Hans Clemens, James Wolfe, Giordano Paltrinieri, Arnold Gabor
Karl Riedel, Conductor
Falstaff: Act III Finale
Queena Mario, Editha Fleischer, Marion Telva [Last appearance], Gladys Swarthout,
Pasquale Amato [Last appearance], Richard Bonelli,
Armand Tokatyan, Angelo Bad?, Giordano Paltrinieri, Adamo Didur [Last appearance]
Vincenzo Bellezza, Conductor
THE OPERATIC SURPRISE PARTY
NOVELTIES AND SURPRISES
Sketches by Armando Agnini, Robert Armbruster, Raymond Knight, Earle R. Lewis
SCENE I
TRYING TO PLEASE (by Raymond Knight)
Raymond Knight, Announcer
Jack Arthur, Pickle King
Arthur Allen, Herring Sponsor
Carlo Edwards, Opera Manager
PAGLIACCI: Prologue
Armando Borgioli
THE EMPEROR JONES: selection
Alfredo Gandolfi
("Alfredo Gandolfi, in the Emperor's blue and red uniform,
had groaned only twice when a telephone rang. A radio listener out in Montana disliked the Gruenberg opera and
wanted Carmen."
CARMEN: Seguidilla
Gladys Swarthout
DIE WALK?RE: Ride of the Valkyries
Grace Divine, Leonora Corona, Rose Bampton, Pearl Besuner, Philine Falco, Doris Doe, Dorothea Flexer
IL TROVATORE: Soldier's Chorus
Frank Chapman, Louis D'Angelo, Arthur Anderson, James Wolfe
RAMONA (a radio opera) with music by Charles Grant
Ramona: Queena Mario
Don Jos?: Richard Crooks
Wilfred Pelletier, Conductor
IT COULD HAPPEN: a mixup with too many super-directors providing quadruple casts:
FAUST: Final Trio
Marguerite: Helen Gleason, Elda Vettori, Aida Doninelli, Eid? Norena.
Faust: Frederick Jagel, Armand Tokatyan, Alfio Tedesco, Max Altglass.
M?fistoph?l?s: Pompilio Malatesta, L?on Rothier, Paolo Ananian, Arthur Anderson
Conductor: Antonio Dell'Orefice, Pietro Cimara, Kurt Ruhrseitz, Riccardo Dellera
TEATRO DILL PICKLES (a marionette opera)
Santuzza: Dorothee Manski
Lola: Ina Bourskaya
Turiddu: Marek Windheim
Marionette pianist: Robert Armbruster
BACK STAGE: MADAMA BUTTERFLY: Love Duet viewed from backstage
Cio-cio-San: Thalia Sabanieeva
Lieutenant Pinkerton: Mario Chamlee
Conductor: Wilfred Pelletier
The entire scene was played by the singers with their backs to the audience in the opera house. Against reversed scenery cluttered with lumber and metal supports, Thalia Sabanieeva and Mario Chamlee sang the Love Duet from Madama Butterfly, while some equally plain Americans played cards in the wings and the child Trouble crooned a lullaby to its doll until grabbed up by its professional parents and thrust out to wave an American flag to the unseen audience.
[In addition to the artists noted above, Ellen Dalossy, Margaret Halstead, Ludwig Hofmann, Rudolf Laubenthal, and Karl Riedel were announced to partipate in SCENE 1.]
SCENE 2
THE METROPOLITAN OPERA NIGHT CLUB
With Joseph Urban's Act II Paris Cabaret from La Rondine
used as a setting.
Walter Damrosch, Master of Ceremonies
Thomas Chalmers, Host
Alma Gluck, Hostess
THE BARTERED BRIDE: Furiant
Rita de LePorte
Mildred Schneider
Giuseppe Bonfiglio
Lucrezia Bori: La Violetera (Padilla)
Pietro Cimara, Piano
G?ta Ljungberg: Swedish Folk Song
Kurt Ruhrseitz, Piano
Greta St?ckgold &
Gustav Sch?tzendorf: Moder, ich vil ein Ding han
Giuseppe Bamboschek, Piano
Carmela and Rosa Ponselle: O Sole Mio; Funicul?, Funicul?
Robert Armbruster Orchestra
Grace Moore: selection from Mill?cker's The Dubarry
Lily Pons &
Lauritz Melchior: Apache Dance
Music: My Man
Robert Armbruster, Piano
Tito Schipa: Bartelemy: Pesca d'Amore (?)
Chim-Fen: Armando Agnini
The Galliettes: symbolizing a twenty-fifth birthday cake
La Gioconda: Dance of the Hours
Rosina Galli, Conductor
Marcia Reale
Giovinezza
The Star Spangled Banner
For He's a Jolly Good Fellow
Vincenzo Bellezza, Conductor
[In addition to the artists noted above, Giuseppe Cesati and Federico Longas were announced to participate in SCENE 2.
STAGE AUDIENCE IN SCENE 2. Merle Alcock, Grace Anthony, Cecil Arden, Martha Attwood, Rose Bampton, Kitty Beale, Sophie Braslau, Vera Curtis, Margaret Fatman, Editha Fleischer, Olive Fremstad, Amelita Galli-Curci, Mabel Garrison, Alma Gluck, Frieda Hempel, Kathleen Howard, Louise Hunter, Clara Jacobo, Frida Leider, Margarete Matzenauer, Elizabeth Mayer, Mary Mellish, Lillian Moore, Nina Morgana, Maria Olszewska, Frances Peralta, Faina Petrova, Elena Rakowska, Marie Rappold, Elisabeth Rethberg, Jessie Rogge, Marcella Sembrich, Marie Sundelius, Marion Telva, Marie Tiffany, Henriette Wakefield, Phradie Wells, Florence Wickham.
Armando Agnini, Max Altglass, Paul Althouse, Pasquale Amato, Angelo Bad?, Vincenzo Bellezza, Richard Bonelli, Otello Ceroni, George Cehanovsky, Hans Clemens, Fausto Cleva, Giuseppe Conca, Walter Damrosch, Giuseppe De Luca, Rafaelo D?az, Adamo Didur, Paul Eisler, Claudio Frigerio, Arnold Gabor, Louis Gruenberg, Henry Hadley, Orville Harrold, Louis Hasselmans, Edward Johnson, Jules Judels*, Giacomo Lauri-Volpi, Lionel Mapleson, Giovanni Martinelli, Hanns Niedecken-Gebhard, Giordano Paltrinieri, Tancredi Pasero, Armando Petrucci, Millo Picco, Ezio Pinza, Alexander Sanine, Carl Schlegel, Friedrich Schorr, Antonio Scotti, Tullio Serafin, Giulio Setti, Giuseppe Sturani, Siegfried Tappolet, Deems Taylor, Frederick Vajda, Reinald Werrenrath.
STAGE MANAGER: Armando Agnini
STAGE EFFECTS: Jacob Buchter*, Philip Crispano*, Irving Herold, Fred Hosli*, Filomena Pangoni
ORCHESTRA MANAGER: Anthony Abarno*
LIBRARIAN: Lionel Mapleson*
Program committee: Vincenzo Bellezza, Chairman
Lucrezia Bori, Armando Agnini, Artur Bodanzky, Louis Hasselmans,
Earle R. Lewis, Wilfred Pelletier, Tullio Serafin, Giulio Setti, Giuseppe Sturani.
* 25 years associated with the Metropolitan Opera
Photograph of Giuseppe De Luca, Lily Pons, and Tito Schipa backstage at the Opera Surprise Party.
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- Metropolitan Opera Chorus
- Giulio Setti [Conductor]
- Giacomo Lauri-Volpi
- Tancredi Pasero
- Giuseppe Sturani [Conductor]
- Edward Johnson
- Rosa Ponselle
- Giuseppe De Luca
- Tullio Serafin [Conductor]
- Giovanni Martinelli
- Louis D?Angelo
- Louis Hasselmans [Conductor]
- Elisabeth Rethberg
- Friedrich Schorr
- Karl Riedel [Conductor]
- Editha Fleischer
- Marion Telva
- Pasquale Amato
- Richard Bonelli
- Angelo Bad?
- Giordano Paltrinieri
- Adamo Didur
- Vincenzo Bellezza [Conductor]
- Armando Agnini
- Robert Armbruster
- Raymond Knight
- Earle R. Lewis
- Jack Arthur
- Arthur Allen
- Carlo Edwards
- Giuseppe Bamboschek
- Rose Bampton
- Pearl Besuner
- Ina Bourskaya
- Leonora Corona
- Ellen Dalossy
- Rita De Leporte
- Grace Divine
- Doris Doe
- Aida Doninelli
- Philine Falco
- Dorothea Flexer
- Rosina Galli
- Helen Gleason
- Alma Gluck
- Margaret Halstead
- G?ta Ljungberg
- Dorothee Manski
- Queena Mario
- Grace Moore
- Eid? Norena
- Lily Pons
- Carmela Ponselle
- Thalia Sabanieeva
- Mildred Schneider
- Grete St?ckgold
- Gladys Swarthout
- Elda Vettori
- Max Altglass
- Paolo Ananian
- Arthur Anderson
- Giuseppe Bonfiglio
- Armando Borgioli
- Giuseppe Cesari
- Thomas Chalmers
- Mario Chamlee
- Frank Chapman
- Pietro Cimara [Piano]
- Richard Crooks
- Walter Damrosch [Speaker]
- Louis D'Angelo
- Riccardo Dellera
- Antonio Dell'Orefice
- Alfredo Gandolfi
- Ludwig Hofmann
- Frederick Jagel
- Rudolf Laubenthal
- Federico Longas
- Pompilio Malatesta
- Lauritz Melchior
- Wilfred Pelletier
- L?on Rothier
- Kurt Ruhrseitz
- Tito Schipa
- Gustav Sch?tzendorf
- Alfio Tedesco
- Armand Tokatyan
- Marek Windheim
- James Wolfe
- Grace Anthony
- Marcella Sembrich [Guest]
- Ezio Pinza
- Arnold Gabor
- Lucrezia Bori
- Hans Clemens