Parsifal
Contributors: Neuger, Konrad, 1890-1948; Sachse, Leopold, 1880-1961; Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883; Flato, Hans, illustrator; Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.); New York Diet Kitchen Association. Children's Health Service; Theater Playbills and Programs Collection (Library of Congress)
Published: 1940
Language: eng
Subjects: Benefit performances
Other titles: Metropolitan Opera House
Description: Metropolitan Opera House, grand opera season 1939-1940, Edward Johnson, general manager, Edward Ziegler, assistant general manager, Earle R. Lewis, assistant general manager. Special performance, benefit New York Diet Kitchen Associaton, "Parsifal," consecrational festival play in three acts (six scenes) (In German), book and music by Richard Wagner. Conductor, Erich Leinsdorf, chorus master Konrad Neuger, stage director Leopold Sachse.
Notes: Metropolitan Opera House [New York], Thursday afternoon, February 22, 1940, at 1 o'clock.

Title devised by Library staff.

Cast: Herbert Janssen, Norman Cordon, Emanuel List, Lauritz Melchior, Walter Olitzki, Kirsten Flagstad, Doris Doe, George Cehanovsky, Louis D'Angelo, Natalie Bodanya, Helen Olheim, Karl Laufkoetter, Lodovico Oliviero, Irene Jessner, Irra Petina, Helen Olheim, Hilda Burke, Thelma Votipka, and a chorus of 24 others.

Color illustrated advertisements for Arrow dress shirts by Hans Flato on inside front cover and color advertisement for Chesterfield cigarettes on back cover.

In: American theater programs of the late 19th and 20th centuries (Library of Congress).