Brooklyn Academy of Music GRAND OPERA SEASON 194-t--1945 1\IAE~TitO A. SAL:\IA<lGl, Gent•ml Director II II II ANOTHER SALMAGGI POPLJLAR PRICE AMERICAN ARTIST HITS THE "MET." GRAND OPERA ('I)HPORATION Saturday Evening, February 24th, 1945 at 8.30 o'clock R !CHARD TUCKER. another American artist among hundreds brought forward to public attention by Alfredo Salmaggi, FA U S T has recently made his Metropolitan Opera Association debut, singing the leading (in French) tenor role of Enzo Grimaldo in Ponchielli's "La Gioconda". Opera in Four Acts Richard Tucker made his grand opera Book by Jules Barbie debut under Salmaggi artistic direction at the Jolson Theatre on March 14, 1943, and Michel Carre' as Alfredo m Verdi's "La Traviata", re­ appearing twice in the SOllie role at the Music by Charles Gounod Brooklyn Academy of Music on April 3, .. "i:"{ ii!i/!i!,~ ·:~;. .·.;. ··:::;.. ·~:::: :· and May 8, 1943. Congratulations and a Faust ... ....... ............. RUSSELL ROBERTS successful future, Mr. Tucker. Mephistopheles .. .. ...... ... GEORGE DUBROVSKY MIMI KELLERMAN Valentin .. ... ...... .. ..... ... ARTURO D'AMICO Prima Ballerina Wagner ... .. ................ LUIGI MOLLE Marguerite . ..... ... ......... ELVIRA HELAL "FAUST" IN MUSIC Siebel ... .. ... ......... ... .. MARTHA LARRIMORE Marthe PHILINA FALCO Goethe's epic "Faust" has been a Act II. "Valse" by the Ballet source of inspiration to no less than seven Conductor .... ...... .. .. GABRIELE SIMEON! major composers. These include in oper­ Chorus Master .... .. ... .. GIOVANNI GROSSI atic repertoire Berlioz's "Dannation of Stage Director . .. LUIGI RAYBOUT · Faust", Boitos "Mefistofele" and Gounod's ''Faust". Choreograph ...... ... .. .. ETHEL PHILLIPS In mstrumenta l form there are Liszt's "Faust" Symphony with Chorus, Schu­ Saturday Evening , March 3rd, at 8.30 o'clock mann's "Faust" Cantata, Wagner's A Faust Overture" and Rubinstein three character pictures "Faust, Marguerite and TOSCA LOUISE CASELOTTI Mefistofeles". Herva Nelli; Gabor Carelli, George Dubrovsky, Contralto Pompilio Malatesta, Francesco Curci, Luigi Molle II II ! I FIRE NOTICE: Look Around Now and Choose the Neareat Exit to Your Seat. In cue of Fire Walk (Do Not Run) to tbat Ealt. Do Not Try to Beat Your Nel&'hbor o the Street.-PATRICK J . WALSH, Fire CommJuionn. ORCHESTRA ~ 0 EXIT 7 u fltll 1 ] c EXIf • a ~ ~ EXIT • ~ ~ ~ . "' ~ "' "' ~ "' • l~ ~ [ lAOot\ - ' '''fi•Oot4io C04olt1 EJt11 1 '0 •.,.\)..... •oo,. .... "' - -------- - ~ • lat IALCONY 2nd BALCONY (XII II ~ [~ 11 II J 1..; .. -: t:XL1 I. (Xtl I) ()l'jT • • . l~ !I "' w • ~I "' !: 11 • J• ,, ..... ,... " tfl ....~ ' CO•' ~ tro... s 40 EI..OQUKNT PRESS CORP., 538 Wet~t 35th Str-t. New York l, N. Y. .