[Met Performance] CID:184590



La Traviata
Metropolitan Opera House, Sat, March 26, 1960

Debut : Piero Cappuccilli




La Traviata (440)
Giuseppe Verdi | Francesco Maria Piave
Violetta
Licia Albanese

Alfredo
Barry Morell

Germont
Piero Cappuccilli [Debut] [Debut and only performance]

Flora
Helen Vanni

Gastone
Charles Anthony

Baron Douphol
Calvin Marsh

Marquis D'Obigny
George Cehanovsky

Dr. Grenvil
Louis Sgarro

Annina
Teresa Stratas

Giuseppe
Lou Marcella

Gardener
John Trehy


Conductor
Fausto Cleva







Review 1:

Review or Wriston Locklair in Musical America
The season's eighth performance of this ever-popular Verdi work featured the Metropolitan debut of Piero Cappuccilli as Germont, p?re. Mr. Cappuccilli is a native of Trieste and has been heard in opera there as well as in Milan, Venice and Palermo, among other cities. His is a baritone voice of good quality which he projected very well. It is not a particularly exciting voice, and did not, on this occasion, reveal a great deal of color. Mr. Cappucilli's characterization of Alfredo?s father was on the stern side, as is appropriate, and there was little variation in the portrayal, even as Violetta's death approached. The audience was vocal in its approval of the baritone's "Di Provenza."

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