New York, Metropolitan Opera. Conductor Gennaro Papi. Duke - Jan Kipura, Rigoletto - Lawrence Tibbett, Gilda - Lily Pons, Sparafucile - Vittorio Lazzari, Maddalena - Helen Ohlheim, Giovanna - Thelma Votipka, Count Monterone - Norman Gordon, Marullo - George Ciechanowski, Borsa - Giordano Paltrinelli, Count Ceprano - Wilfred Engelmann, Countess Ceprano - Pearl Besuner. March 11, 1939 (live)