[Met Performance] CID:153430



La Traviata
Metropolitan Opera House, Thu, April 6, 1950




La Traviata (327)
Giuseppe Verdi | Francesco Maria Piave
Violetta
Dorothy Kirsten

Alfredo
Jan Peerce

Germont
Robert Merrill

Flora
Thelma Votipka

Gastone
Alessio De Paolis

Baron Douphol
George Cehanovsky

Marquis D'Obigny
Lawrence Davidson

Dr. Grenvil
Lorenzo Alvary

Annina
Thelma Altman

Dance
Peggy Smithers

Dance
Marina Svetlova


Conductor
Jonel Perlea







Review 1:

Francis D. Perkins in the Herald Tribune

Metropolitan’s First “Aida”

 

Artists already known here in their various roles sang last night at the Metropolitan Opera House in the season’s first performance of Verdi’s “Aida,”which pursued a musically respectable, if not unusually memorable course under Emil Cooper’s conductorship. When at her best, Stella Roman’s Aida was vocally ingratiating, but there was some unevenness and occasional unsteadiness of tone in an impersonation that was expressive, while addicted at times to conventional gesture. Blanche Thebom, a handsome Amneris, provided some effective singing along with some variability in tonal merit.

 

Kurt Baum, as Radames, was in good voice, singing with unusual freedom of tone production; Robert Merrill was a meritorious Amonasro and the singing of Nicola Moscona and Philip Kinsman, as Ramfis and the King, proved to be commendable. Thelma Votipka and Paul Pranke completed the cast of a performance which, like some others in recent seasons, suggested that the Metropolitan’s current “Aida” can be placed midway between the company’s most and least notable productions.



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