[Met Performance] CID:158320



Rigoletto
Metropolitan Opera House, Sun, December 16, 1951




Rigoletto (311)
Giuseppe Verdi | Francesco Maria Piave
Rigoletto
Leonard Warren

Gilda
Roberta Peters

Duke of Mantua
Giacinto Prandelli

Maddalena
Nell Rankin

Sparafucile
Alois Pernerstorfer

Monterone
Norman Scott

Borsa
Paul Franke

Marullo
George Cehanovsky

Count Ceprano
Lawrence Davidson

Countess Ceprano
Lucine Amara

Giovanna
Thelma Votipka

Page
Margaret Roggero

Guard
Algerd Brazis


Conductor
Alberto Erede







Review 1:

Review of Ross Parmenter in The New York Times
PRANDELLI?S SECOND ROLE

Opera?s New Tenor is Duke in Verdi?s ?Rigoletto?

Giacinto Prandelli, Italian tenor, who made his Metropolitan Opera debut last month as Alfredo in ?La Traviata,? sang his second role at the Broadway house last night when he appeared as the Duke in the season?s sixth performance of Verdi?s ?Rigoletto.?

He confirmed the good impression of his earlier appearance, for he sang the part of the pleasure-loving Duke with lightness and grace. He moved easily on the stage and in his impersonation the Duke was always well-bred despite his roistering habits. His singing was always musical in sound and he had the technical skill to negotiate his difficult arias with an engaging sense of effortlessness.

The performance was for the benefit of the Shorefront Chapter of the Brooklyn Hadassah. The other members of the cast had all sung their respective roles earlier this season. Roberta Peters, who substituted for Genevieve Warner as Gilda, in a prior performance, substituted this time for Patrice Munsel. Leonard Warren had the title role.


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