[Met Performance] CID:118000

Opening Night {51}, General Manager: Herbert Witherspoon, New Production, General Manager: Edward Johnson

La Traviata
Metropolitan Opera House, Mon, December 16, 1935

Debut : Thelma Votipka, Gisella Caccialanza, Ruthanna Boris, Anatol Vilzak, Constantine Iolas, George Balanchine




La Traviata (207)
Giuseppe Verdi | Francesco Maria Piave
Violetta
Lucrezia Bori

Alfredo
Richard Crooks

Germont
Lawrence Tibbett

Flora
Thelma Votipka [Debut]

Gastone
Angelo Bad?

Baron Douphol
Alfredo Gandolfi

Marquis D'Obigny
George Cehanovsky

Dr. Grenvil
James Wolfe

Annina
Pearl Besuner

Dance
Gisella Caccialanza [Debut]

Dance
Ruthanna Boris [Debut]

Dance
Anatol Vilzak [Debut]

Dance
Constantine Iolas [Debut]

Dance
Josef Levinoff


Conductor
Ettore Panizza


Director
D?sir? Defr?re

Designer
Jonel Jorgulesco

Choreographer
George Balanchine [Debut]





La Traviata received five performances this season.
On 3/6/35, Herbert Witherspoon, former Metropolitan Opera bass, was announced as the new General Manager succeeding Giulio Gatti-Casazza. He died in his office at the opera house on 5/10/35. Edward Johnson, Metropolitan Opera tenor who had been appointed Assistant Manager, was immediately confirmed as his successor.
Photograph of Paul Cravath, Lawrence Tibbett, Richard Crooks, Lucrezia Bori, Ettore Panizza, and Edward Johnson by the Associated Press.

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