[Met Performance] CID:167740



Un Ballo in Maschera
Metropolitan Opera House, Sat, January 22, 1955 Matinee Broadcast
Broadcast Matinee Broadcast





Un Ballo in Maschera (56)
Giuseppe Verdi | Antonio Somma
Amelia
Zinka Milanov

Riccardo
Richard Tucker

Renato
Josef Metternich

Ulrica
Jean Madeira

Oscar
Roberta Peters

Samuel
Nicola Moscona

Tom
Norman Scott

Silvano
Calvin Marsh

Judge
James McCracken

Servant
Charles Anthony


Conductor
Dimitri Mitropoulos







Review 1:

Review signed C. B. in Musical America:

The season's second performance of "Un Ballo in Maschera" again had Zinka Milanov in the role of Amelia and Richard Tucker as Riccardo, as well as two newcomers to the cast. Jean Madeira was heard as Ulrica for the first time, replacing Marian Anderson, who had made her Metropolitan debut in the role two weeks before. Despite her youth, Miss Madeira had the vocal weight and dramatic presence to make a very convincing witch. Neither she nor Josef Metternich, who was singing his first Renato at the opera house, had complete freedom of delivery, but both served to make the afternoon an artistically successful one. Mr. Metternich scored particularly in the second act, portraying Renato's mixed feelings of anger, jealousy. and deep mortification with persuasive accents, and in the third act, giving these sentiments their appropriate expression in his "Eri tu." Others in the cast were Roberta Peters as Oscar, Calvin Marsh as Silvano, Nicola Moscona as Samuel, and Norman Scott as Tom. Dimitri Mitropoulos again made his presence felt both on stage and in the pit, giving an incisive account of the orchestral score and providing a decided impulse to the vocal performance.

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