[Met Tour Performance] CID:162520



Metropolitan Opera Jamboree
Ritz Theater, Manhattan, New York, Mon, April 6, 1953 Simulcast/Telecast





Metropolitan Opera Jamboree



Milton Cross
Announcer

Address: George A. Sloan, Chairman of the Board

Deems Taylor
Master of Ceremonies

Carmen: Habanera
Blanche Thebom

Cavalleria Rusticana: Addio alla Madre
Richard Tucker

Cinderella (Livingston, Hoffman) : Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo
Salvatore Baccaloni

Otello: Love Duet
Licia Albanese
Mario Del Monaco

Le Nozze di Figaro: Overture

Conductor...............Fausto Cleva

Howard Dietz
Master of Ceremonies

Carousel: You'll never walk alone
George London

La Boh?me: O soave fanciulla
Lucine Amara
Brian Sullivan

La Forza del Destino: Pace, pace, mio Dio!
Zinka Milanov

Conductor...............Fausto Cleva


Il Barbiere di Siviglia: Don Basilio! Cosa veggo!
Roberta Peters
Eugene Conley
Frank Valentino
Salvatore Baccaloni
George London

Die Fledermaus: Overture

Conductor...............Max Rudolf

Rigoletto: La donna ? mobile
Eugene Conley
Fausto Cleva, Conductor

Rigoletto: Caro nome
Roberta Peters
Max Rudolf, Conductor

Turandot: Nessun dorma
Mario Del Monaco
Fausto Cleva, Conductor

Porgy and Bess: Summertime
Leontyne Price [First appearance]
Max Rudolf, Conductor

Tosca: Vissi d'arte
Licia Albanese
Fausto Cleva, Conductor

Don Giovanni: L? ci darem la mano
Roberta Peters
George London
Max Rudolf, Conductor

ABC Symphony Orchestra

Director................John Gutman

[This ninety-minute fund-raising concert was the first Metropolitan Opera event simulcast on both radio and television. The initial hour was transmitted over the ABC radio network and selected affiliate television stations, the final half hour over radio alone. Donations from the broadcast audience to the Metropolitan Opera Fund were pledged by phone.]





This ninety-minute fund-raising concert was the first Metropolitan Opera event simulcast on both radio and television. The initial hour was transmitted over the ABC radio network and selected affiliate television stations, the final half hour over radio alone. Donations from the broadcast audience to the Metropolitan Opera Fund were pledged by phone.

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