Richard Bonelli - Appearances
1940-1952
by Charles A. Hooey
This list is so extensive and extended, it has been divided
into four chronological sections. You can access the
other pages with the links below.
* denotes a broadcast
MET/NY
*3 February, 1940 Lucia Di Lammermoor RB as Enrico with
Lily Pons, Frederick Jagel, Virgilio Lazzari, Thelma Votipka,
Nicholas Massue, Lodovico Oliviero;
cond. Gennaro Papi
9 February, 1940 Madama Butterfly as Sharpless with Licia Albanese, Charles
Kullman, Lucielle Browning, Alessio de Paolis; cond. Gennaro Papi
10 March, 1940 Met at NBC television studios excpts of Act 1 of Pagliacci as
Tonio with Hilda Burke, Tokatyan; St. Leger
SEATTLE
1940 La Traviata as Germont with Jarmila Novotna, Mario Chamlee
SAN FRANCISCO
23 October, 1940 Un Ballo in Maschera as Renato with Elisabeth Rethberg,
Jussi Bjoerling, Suzanne Sten, Margit Bokor, Lorenzo Alvary, George Cehanovsky;
cond. Gennaro Papi
MET/NY
10 January, 1941 MAT Manon as Lescaut with Jarmila Novotna, Richard Crooks,
Ezio Pinza, Maxine Stellman, Helen Olheim, Alessio De Paolis, Louis D'Angelo;
cond. Wilfred Pelletier
18 January, 1941 Faust as Valentin with Helen Jepson, Charles Kullman,
Ezio Pinza, Helen Olheim, Thelma Votipka, Wilfred Engelmann, Annamary Dickey;
cond. Wilfred Pelletier
27 January, 1941 - ditto exc Norman Cordon for Pinza
7, *15 MAT, 24 February, 1941 L'Amore dei Tre Re as Manfredo w. Grace
Moore (Fiora), Charles Kullman (Avito), Ezio Pinza (Archibaldo), Alessio De Paolis
(Flaminio), Maxine Stellman (Young Woman), Anna Kaskas (Old Woman), Lucielle
Browning (Maid), Nicholas Massue (Youth); c. Montemezzi CD: EKR CD9
21 February, 1941 (Cav Rust)/Pagliacci as Tonio with Norina Greco, Giovanni
Martinelli, Frank Valentino, Alessio De Paolis; cond. Ferruccio Calusio
15 March, 1941 - ditto exc John Dudley for De Paolis
MET/HARTFORD
11 March, 1941 Carmen as Escamillo with Bruna Castagna, Giovanni
Martinelli, Licia Albanese, Norman Cordon; cond. Wilfred Pelletier
MET/BOSTON
3 April, 1941 L'Amore dei Tre Re as Manfredo with Grace Moore, Charles
Kullman, Ezio Pinza; cond. Italo Montemezzi
MET/CLEVELAND
18 April, 1941 (Cav Rust)/Pagliacci as Tonio with Hilda Burke, Giovanni
Martinelli, Frank Valentino, Alessio De Paolis; cond. Gennaro Papi
19 April, 1941 MAT Faust as Valentin with Helen Jepson, Charles Kullman,
Ezio Pinza; cond. Wilfred Pelletier
MET/NEW ORLEANS
21 April, 1941 Madama Butterfly as Sharpless with Licia Albanese, Charles
Kullman, Irra Petina; c. Ettore Panizza
MET/DALLAS
24 April, 1941 Il Trovatore as Di Luna with Stella Roman, Bruna Castagna,
Arthur Carron (or Charles Kullman), Norman Cordon; cond. Ettore Panizza
MET/ATLANTA
29 April, 1941 Faust as Valentin with Helen Jepson, Charles Kullman, Ezio
Pinza; cond. Wilfred Pelletier
MET/RICHMOMD
1 May, 1941 La Bohème as Marcello with Grace Moore, Annamary Dickey,
Charles Kullman, Norman Cordon; cond. Gennaro Papi
MET/ROCHESTER
5 May, 1941 Carmen as Escamillo with Gladys Swarthout, Giovanni Martinelli,
Licia Albanese, Louis D'Angelo; cond. Wilfred Pelletier
MET/ALBANY
6 May, 1941 La Bohème as Marcello with Jarmila Novotna, Annamary
Dickey, Charles Kullman, Nicola Moscona; c. Papi
Summer, 1941 Paramount's filming of ‘There's Magic in Music’ with
Susanna Foster and Allan Jones
CHICAGO
10 November, 1941 Carmen as Escamillo with Gladys Swarthout (or Bruna
Castagna), Licia Albanese, Raoul Jobin, Roberto Silva; cond. Peroni
22 November, 1941 (Cav)/Pagliacci as Tonio with Eva Turner, Giovanni Martinelli;
cond. Angelo Canarutto
29 November, 1941 Il Trovatore as Di Luna with Mobley Lushanya, Giovanni
Martinelli, Coe Glade, Virgilio Lazzari; cond. Leo Kopp
5 December, 1941 Faust as Valentin with Charlotte Symons, Sydney Rayner,
Roberto Silva, May Barron, Margery Mayer; cond. Emil Cooper
*8 December, 1941 Il Barbiere di Siviglia as Figaro with Josephine Antoine,
Nino Martini, Vittorio Trevisan, Virgilio Lazzari, Ada Paggi; cond. Emil Cooper
10 December, 1941 Rigoletto as Rigoletto with Lucille Meusel, Jan Kiepura,
Virgilio Lazzari, Margery Mayer; cond. Jerzy Bojanowski
MET/NY
22 January, 1942 Aida as Amonasro with Elisabeth Rethberg, Frederick
Jagel, Nicola Moscona, Karin Branzell, Lansing Hatfield, Thelma Votipka; cond.
Paul
Breisach
2 February, 1942 - ditto exc Norina Greco for Rethberg
30 January, 1942 Faust as Valentin with Licia Albanese, Richard Crooks,
Ezio Pinza, Lucielle Browning, Thelma Votipka, Arthur Kent; cond. Sir Thomas
Beecham
7 February, 1942 - ditto exc Raoul Jobin for Crooks, Norman Cordon for Pinza
11 February, 1942 La Boheme as Marcello with Licia Albanese, Nino Martini,
Norman Cordon, Salvatore Baccaloni, Natalie Bodanya; cond. Paul Breisach
15 February, 1942 CONCERT Carmen excpts with Lily Djanel, Licia Albanese,
Arthur Carron; cond. Paul Breisach
*28 February, 1942 MAT Un Ballo in Maschera as Renato with Stella Roman,
Giovanni Martinelli, Bruna Castagna, Josephine Antoine, Norman Cordon, Nicola
Moscona; cond. Ettore Panizza
MET/BALTIMORE
18 March, 1942 La Traviata as Germont with Bidù Sayão, Bruno
Landi, Thelma Votipka, Alessio De Paolis; cond. Panizza
MET/BIRMINGHAM
20 April, 1942 La Traviata as Germont with Helen Jepson, Jan Peerce, Thelma
Votipka, Alessio De Paolis; c. Ettore Panizza
MET/ATLANTA
21 April, 1942 Carmen as Escamillo with Lily Djanel, Licia Albanese, Charles
Kullman; cond. Sir Thomas Beecham
SAN FRANCISCO
14 October, 1942 La Traviata as Germont with Bidù Sayão,
Jan Peerce, Alessio De Paolis, George Cehanovsky, Lorenzo Alvary, Douglas Beattie,
Thelma Votipka; cond. Fausto Cleva
18 October, 1942 MAT Lucia as Enrico with Lily Pons, Jan Peerce, Lorenzo
Alvary, Alessio De Paolis, Thelma Votipka; cond. Pietro Cimara
28 October, 1942 Un Ballo in Maschera as Renato with Stella Roman, Bruna
Castagna, Frederick Jagel, Margit Bokor, Lorenzo Alvary, Douglas Beattie, George
Cehanovsky; c. Cleva
CHICAGO
11 November, 1942 Lucia as Enrico with Josephine Tuminia, James Melton,
Virgilio Lazzari, Anna Kaskas; c Pietro Cimara
21 November, 1942 Il Trovatore as Di Luna with Rose Bampton, Coe Glade,
Giovanni Martinelli, Douglas Beattie; c. Bigalli
23 November, 1942 Faust as Valentin with Grace Moore, Armand Tokatyan,
Alexander Kipnis, Margery Mayer; c. Fausto Cleva
MET/NY
3 February, 1943 Carmen as Escamillo with Raoul Jobin, Lily Djanel, Licia
Albanese, Thelma Votipka, Helen Olheim, Alessio De Paolis, George Cehanovsky,
Lorenzo Alvary, Wilfred Engelman; cond. Sir Thomas Beecham
28 February, 1943 CONCERT; Il Barbiere - "Largo al factotum"
3 March, 1943 Il Trovatore as Di Luna with Stella Roman, Arthur Carron,
Bruna Castagna, Nicola Moscona, Maxine Stellman, Lodovico Oliviero; cond. Cesare
Sodero
*6 March, 1943 MAT Aida as Amonasro with Zinka Milanov, Giovanni Martinelli,
Bruna Castagna, Norman Cordon, Lansing Hatfield, John Dudley; cond. Wilfred Pelletier
MET/CHICAGO
23 March, 1943 Faust as Valentin with Eleanor Steber, Raoul Jobin, Norman
Cordon, Lucielle Browning, Thelma Votipka, Wilfred Engelmann; cond. Sir Thomas
Beecham
1 April, 1943 Aida as Amonasro with Stella Roman, Bruna Castagna, Frederick
Jagel, Nicola Moscona, Lorenzo Alvary, Lodovoco Oliviero, Thelma Votipka; cond.
Wilfred Pelletier
CINCINATTI "OPERA AT THE ZOO"
29 June, 1943 Faust as Valentin with Marjorie Hess, Eugene Conley, Nicola Moscona,
Winifred Heidt, Mildred Ippolito; cond. Fausto Cleva
24, 29 July & 7 August, 1943 Il Trovatore as Di Luna with Zinka Milanov,
Kurt Baum, Kerstin Thorborg, Virgilio Lazzari, Giuseppe Cavadore; cond. Fausto
Cleva
27 July & 1 August, 1943 Il Barbiere di Siviglia as Figaro with Josephine
Tuminia, Franco Perulli, Salvatore Baccaloni; cond. Fausto Cleva
CHICAGO
20, 28 October, 1944 La Bohème as Marcello with Marjorie Hess,
Christina Carroll, Nino Martini; cond. Fausto Cleva
27 October, 4 November, 1944 Il Trovatore as Di Luna with Zinka Milanov,
Kerstin Thorborg, Kurt Baum, Virgilio Lazzari; cond. Giuseppe Bamboschek
MET/NY
28 December, 1944 IL Barbiere di Siviglia as Figaro with Patrice Munsel
(Rosina), Bruno Landi Almaviva), Salvatore Baccaloni (Dr. Bartolo), Nicola Moscona
(Don Basilio), Mack Harrell (Fiorello), Doris Doe (Berta), Richard Manning (Official);
cond. Wilfred Pelletier
13 January, 1945 - ditto exc Ezio Pinza for Moscona, John Baker for Harrell
14 March, 1945 - ditto exc Jennie Tourel for Munsel, Virgilio Lazzari for Moscona,
John Baker for Harrell.
(RB's last performance on Metropolitan Opera stage.)
1 January, 1945 Aida as Amonasro with Zinka Milanov, Kurt Baum, Bruna
Castagna, Ezio Pinza, Osie Hawkins; cond. Emil Cooper
31 January, 1945 - ditto exc Nicola Moscona for Pinza
25 January, 5, 21 February, 1945 La Gioconda as Barnaba with Stella
Roman, Richard Tucker, Nicola Moscona, Margaret Harshaw, Bruna Castagna (Laura);
cond. Emil Cooper
10 February, 1945 (Cav Rust)/Pagliacci as Tonio with Licia Albanese, Frederick
Jagel, Frank Valentino; c. Cesare Sodero
9 March, 1945 La Traviata as Germont with Eleanor Steber, Charles Kullman,
Thelma Votipka, Mona Paulee, Alessio De Paolis, George Cehanovsky, Louis D'Angelo,
Lorenzo Alvary; cond. Cesare Sodero
HARTFORD OPERA
11 April, 1945 Madama Butterfly as Sharpless with Jarmila Novotna, Nino
Martini
LOS ANGELES Philharmonic
September, 1945 The Waltz King with Irra Petina
KANSAS CITY
5, 6, 7 October 1945 The Waltz King with Margit Bokor, Anthony Marlowe,
Jack Gardner
CHICAGO
8 October, 1945 Manon (SEASON OPENING) as Lescaut with Bidù Sayão,
Armand Tokatyan, Nicola Moscona, Lodovico Oliviero, Kozakevich; cond. Fausto
Cleva
13, 24 October, 1945 Carmen as Escamillo with Gladys Swarthout, Helal,
Giovanni Martinelli; cond. Fausto Cleva
3 November, 1945 - ditto exc Lily Djanel for Swarthout
27 October, 1945 MAT Faust as Valentin with Jeannette MacDonald, Nino
Martini, Nicola Moscona, Nadell; cond. Fausto Cleva
3, 9 November, 1945 La Traviata as Germont with Bidù Sayão,
Mario Berini; cond. Fausto Cleva
14 November, 1945 (Cav)/Pagliacci as Tonio with Stafford, Giovanni Martinelli;
cond. Fausto Cleva
CHICAGO
November, 1945 The Waltz King RB (?) with Irra Petina
PHILADELPHIA LA SCALA OPERA COMPANY/BUFFALO NY
23 September, 1946 Madama Butterfly as Sharpless with Dorothy Kirsten,
Nino Martini
PHILADELPHIA LA SCALA OPERA COMPANY/DETROIT
4 October, 1946 Madama Butterfly as Sharpless with Dorothy Kirsten, Nino
Martini, Lillian Marchetto; c. Bamboschek
CHICAGO
9, 25 October, 1946 Lucia as Enrico with Patrice Munsel, Richard Tucker,
Virgilio Lazzari, Stafford, Wolski; cond. Nicolo Rescigno
12, 21 October, 2 November 1946 Madama Butterfly as Sharpless with Dorothy
Kirsten, Ferruccio Tagliavini, Sachs; cond. Fausto Cleva
19 October, 1946 MAT La Bohème as Marcello with Dorothy Kirsten,
Ferruccio Tagliavini, Virgilio Lazzari, Wilfred Engelman, Frances Greer; cond.
Fausto Cleva
5 February, 1947 TOWN HALL, NY RECITAL with Ernst Victor Wolff, piano: German
lieder and songs
PHILADELPHIA LA SCALA OPERA COMPANY/TORONTO, Massey Hall
6 October, 1947 Madama Butterfly as Sharpless with Violetta de Freitas,
Eugene Conley, Lillian Marchetto, John Lawler, Francesco Curci; cond. Giuseppe
Bamboschek
PHILADELPHIA LA SCALA OPERA COMPANY/PHILADELPHIA
7 January, 1948 Madama Butterfly as Sharpless with Violetta de Freitas,
Nino Martini, Lillian Marchetto; c. Bamboschek
HOLLYWOOD BOWL 3 September, 1948 Madama Butterfly as Sharpless with Eleanor
Steber (Cio-Cio-San), Jan Peerce (Pinkerton), Suzanne Carre (Suzuki), Osie Hawkins
(The Bonze), Clifford Harvuot (Prince Yamadori), Martha Larrimore (Kate Pinkerton);
cond. Eugene Ormandy CD: VAIA 1220-2
NEW YORK CITY OPERA
17 October, 1948 La Traviata as Germont (DEBUT) with Ann Ayars, Rudolf
Petrak; cond. Jean Morel
18 November, 1948 Carmen as Escamillo with Winifred Heidt, Irwin Dillon,
Dorothy MacNeil; cond. Joseph Rosenstock
PHILADELPHIA LA SCALA OPERA COMPANY/MILWAUKEE
3 December, 1948 La Bohème as Marcello with De Torro, Carron, Nino
Martini
NEW YORK CITY OPERA
4 November, 1949, La Traviata as Germont with Eva Likova, Rudolf Petrak;
cond. Lee Shaynen
6 November, 1949 (Cav)/Pagliacci as Tonio with Basil Landia, Giulio Gari,
Frank Gamboni (Silvio); cond. Joseph Rosenstock
13 November, 1949 Tosca as Scarpia with Suzy Morris, Rudolf Petrak, James
Pease; cond. Jean Morel
19 November, 1949 La Traviata as Germont with Ann Ayars, Rudolf Petrak;
cond. Lee Shaynen
16 March, 1951 La Traviata as Germont with Ann Ayars, David Poleri DEBUT;
cond. Lee Shaynen
1 April, 1951 MAT Madama Butterfly as Sharpless with Camilla Williams,
Giulio Gari, Mary Kreste; cond. Thomas B. Martin
29 September, 1951 MAT Madama Butterfly with Camilla Williams, Giulio
Gari, Margery Mayer, cond. Laszlo Halasz
30 September, 1951 La Bohème as Marcello with Ann Ayars, David
Poleri, Eva Likova, Raffaele Arié; cond. Halasz
7 October, 1951 MAT La Traviata as Germont with Lucia Evangelista, David
Poleri; cond. Lee Shaynen
11 October, 1951 Madama Butterfly as Sharpless with Camilla Williams,
Rudolf Petrak, Frances Bible; cond. Laszlo Halasz
27 October, 1951 Faust as Valentin with Frances Yeend, Rudolf Petrak,
Raffaele Arie, Eunice Alberts, Frances Bible; cond. Jean Morel
28 October, 1951 MAT Madama Butterfly as Sharpless with Camilla Williams,
Wesley Dalton DEBUT, Mary Kreste; cond. Lee Shaynen
10 November, 1951 Madama Butterfly as Sharpless with Ellen Faull, David
Poleri, Eunice Alberts; cond. Lee Shaynen
22 March, 1952 La Traviata as Germont with Eva Likova, Rudolf Petrak;
cond. Thomas B. Martin
6 April, 1952 MAT La Traviata as Germont with Ann Ayars, David Poleri;
cond. Thomas P. Martin
5 October, 1952 MAT La Traviata as Germont with Ann Ayars, Jon Crain DEBUT;
cond. Jean Morel
12 October, 1952 (Cav Rust)/Pagliacci as Tonio with Gail Manners, Giulio
Gari, Richard Torigi (Silvio); cond. J Rudel
