[Met Performance] CID:124180



Orfeo ed Euridice
Metropolitan Opera House, Mon, December 5, 1938




Orfeo ed Euridice (41)
Christoph Willibald Gluck | Ranieri de' Calzabigi
Orfeo
Kerstin Thorborg

Euridice
Irene Jessner

Amore
Marisa Morel

Happy Shade
Marita Farell

Dance
Felia Dubrovska

Dance
Grant Mouradoff


Conductor
Artur Bodanzky







Review 1:

Review of Irving Kolodin in the Sun

Thorborg Heard Again in Gluck's "Orfeo"

The Metropolitan's noble production of Gluck's "Orfeo" began its circuit of the evening subscription series with last night's performance. In view of the pessimistic opinions of the work's appeal to the operatic public that have been expressed, it was interesting to observe a reaction that was certainly more than tepid (especially after the scene in the Elysian Fields) if it was scarcely boisterous. The good turnout of standees supplied more than their numerical share of this enthusiasm.

Much of it, of course, was directed to Kerstin Thorborg, whose intelligent and musicanly singing of the music of Orfeo was once more the principal pleasure of the performance. Her associates were again Marisa Morel (Amore), Irene Jessner (Euridice) and Marita Farell (Un' Ombra felice), performing with various degrees of competence. In retrospect the contribution of the ballet to the production is a singularly unimpressive one, the opportunities of Gluck's score providing little stimulus to the choreographer, Boris Romanoff. Artur Bodanzky conducted with evident sympathy, and the orchestra played well.



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