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Opera in Philadelphia · Performance Chronology ... - Frank Hamilton

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4/10/31: OEdipus Rex (Igor Straw<strong>in</strong>sky): <strong>Philadelphia</strong>, Metropolitan <strong>Opera</strong> House (<strong>Philadelphia</strong> Orchestra and League of<br />

Composers), hour: 1430: with chorus from the Pr<strong>in</strong>ceton Glee Club, Alexander Russell; sett<strong>in</strong>g,<br />

figure, and costumes design Robert Edmond Jones; figures by Remo Bufano; technical director Louis<br />

Simon; costume department Valent<strong>in</strong>a Kashouba; pianist W<strong>in</strong>ifred Young Cornish; costumes<br />

executed by Masque Studios; stage designs executed by Bergman Studio and Cleon Throckmorton<br />

Studio: electrical amplification by Philco Radio<br />

Jocasta Margarete Matzenauer<br />

OEdipus Paul Althouse<br />

Creon ⎫<br />

⎪ M. Rud<strong>in</strong>ov<br />

Messenger<br />

⎭<br />

Tiresias Sigurd Nilssen<br />

Shepherd Daniel Healy<br />

The reader Wayland Rudd<br />

maestro direttore Leopold Stokowski<br />

<strong>Opera</strong>tors of Figures:<br />

Remo Bufano, Fernand Alvarez, <strong>Frank</strong> Brownlow, John Cunn<strong>in</strong>gham<br />

Ross Matthew, Florence Koehler, John Murno, A. Spolidoro, Robert Turney<br />

Le pas d’acier (ballet: The age of steel: Serge Prokofiev): <strong>Philadelphia</strong>, Metropolitan <strong>Opera</strong> House (<strong>Philadelphia</strong><br />

Orchestra and League of Composers): scenario, sett<strong>in</strong>gs, and costumes by Lee Simonson;<br />

choreography Edw<strong>in</strong> Strawbridge<br />

Efficiency experts ⎪<br />

⎩ ⎧ Edw<strong>in</strong> Strawbridge<br />

Yeichi Nimura<br />

Steel Paul<strong>in</strong>e Koner<br />

Iron Grace Cornell<br />

Coal Ruth Wilton<br />

⎧ Martha Eaton<br />

Bucolic laborers<br />

⎪<br />

John Glenn<br />

⎪<br />

⎩ Mary Rivoire<br />

Human belt: Bernard Bay, Philip Behi, Margaret Fischer, Mattie Haim<br />

Gertrude Hilgenberg, Valeska Hubbard, Meta Leo, Rose Lieder<br />

Rose Mann, Pat McGrath, William Meisel, Virg<strong>in</strong>ia Millar<br />

Jack Salas, Paul<strong>in</strong>e Squires, Gould Stevens<br />

Symbolic belt: Helen Armstrong, Robert Barrow, Fritz Brosius<br />

George Clossay, Morris Honig, Vivien Jacobson<br />

Sally Polayes, William Rob<strong>in</strong>son, Kather<strong>in</strong>e Selby<br />

Rose Stall<strong>in</strong>gs, Yon Theodore, Alice Watson<br />

cont<strong>in</strong>ued. . .<br />

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