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

5/11/31: Carmen: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Drury Opera Company), hour: 2015: Vernon Cuffee Concert
Orchestra; piano Mrs. Janivive St. Akeman; associate director Vernon Cuffee; assistant director
Ferdinand Motley; stage director Alonzo Jackson; costume and make-up Wm. H. Robertson; ballet
director Grace C. Frye; period decorations and effect by The Art Studio, 517 So. 19th St.
Carmen Phyllis Nearn
Don José Embry Bonner
Escamillo John Thomas
Micaëla unknown
Fr asquita Carrie Greenhill
Mercédès Alice Wood
Zuniga James Burch
Moralès Wilbur Marshall
Le Dancaïre Wilbur Marshall
Le Remendado Ferdinand Motley
Lillas Pastia W. King McIntosh
maestro direttore Theodore Drury
5/17/31: Les cloches de Corneville (excerpts, in concert): Philadelphia, Willow Grove Park (Philharmonic Orch. and Ch.)
Elizabeth Cook
Molly R. Lipkin
Sophie Levin
Iolla Seward
Marion Lentz
Elevyn Cadwalader
Clifford Barnett
Carl Urban
Edward Rementer
Raymond Nelson
maestro direttore Theodore Feinmann
5/22/31:
Apparently excerpts from The chimes of Normandy were presented in concert form three times on this Sunday
afternoon. The announcement for the preformance mentions that the same artists also performed the operetta at
a recent concert.
The Pirates of Penzance: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (The Savo y Company), hour: 2015: stage director
Walter Antrim; accompanist Ruth Barber
Richard, a pirate chief Wilbur Evans
Samuel, his lieutenant Gerald Bruce West
Fr ederic, a pirate apprentice James Montgomery
Major-General Stanley John Steele Williams
Edward, a sergent of police Albert Carl Lohmann
Mabel Christine Murdoch Kendrick
Edith Elizabeth Jane Taylor
Kate Mary Miller Lewis Jack
Isabel Margretta Wheatley Shipley
Ruth Marion Kendrick
maestro direttore John Thoms
5/23/31: The Pirates of Penzance: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (The Savo y Company), hour: 2015
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