[Met Performance] CID:150080



Il Trovatore
Metropolitan Opera House, Tue, March 8, 1949




Il Trovatore (246)
Giuseppe Verdi | Salvatore Cammarano
Manrico
Kurt Baum

Leonora
Gertrude Ribla

Count Di Luna
Robert Merrill

Azucena
Cloe Elmo

Ferrando
Jerome Hines

Ines
Inge Manski

Ruiz
Leslie Chabay

Gypsy
Lawrence Davidson


Conductor
Emil Cooper







Review 1:

Ross Parmenter in The New York Times

LEONORA ROLE SUNG BY GERTRUDE RIBLA

 

Gertrude Ribla, New York soprano, who was heard as Aida earlier this season, assumed her second role at the Metropolitan Opera last night when she sang Leonora in the special performance of Verdi’s “Il Trovatore” for the benefit of the New York Chapter of Hadassah.

She proved a distinct success as an actress. She has a presence of sufficient authority to hold the stage and she moved simply and naturally but with enough studied grace for the glowing draperies of her costume to be always picturesque.

She listened intelligently, when that was what the part required, and her big scene before the prison in act four, she showed that she could portray a woman of spirit, whose distracted grief seemed genuine.

Perhaps she was not in very good voice, though, for her top notes were inclined to be edgy and they seemed to be reached with effort. But the voice was full and rich in the lower registers, and its darkness of color lent dramatic emphasis to the role.

The other members of the cast were all familiar in their roles. Kurt Baum was the Manrico, Robert Merrill the Count Di Luna; Cloe Elmo, the Azucena, and Jerome Hines, the Ferrando.



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