Summary: Alfred Hubay, in his twelth season as an usher for the Metropolitan Opera, remembers the opening night closed circuit telecast of an “all-star gala”, the debuts of Marian Anderson as Ulrica, Robert McFerrin as Amonasro, Renata Tebaldi as Desdemona, and a new production of Andrea Chenier with Mario del Monaco, Zinka Milanov and Leonard Warren (Part 1 of 2).
