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Il trovatore opera in four acts

Title: Il trovatore [sound recording] : opera in four acts / Giuseppe Verdi ; libretto by Salvatore Cammarano.
Author: Verdi, Giuseppe, 1813-1901

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Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.	Music CD	Use in library	*LDC 35314 [CD]	Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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Description

4 sound discs : digital, stereo.; 4 3/4 in.

Donor/Sponsor

Gift of the Metropolitan Opera.

Series Statement

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of \Mar. 17, 1973\730317\]

Uniform Title

Trovatore
Opera news on the air (Radio program)
Texaco's opera quiz (Radio program)
Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (Radio program)

Alternative Title

Trovatore

Subject

Note

Sung in Italian.
Durations: 2:18:28 (opera) ; 1:25:30 (synopses and features).
Compact discs.
House program on file in Music Division.
Production notes and official cast list (6 p.) filed under classmark: *LTCM 29(F).

Indexed In (note)

Opera news

Event (note)

Originally recorded in the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Mar. 17, 1973.

Reproduction (note)

Cassette copy (3 sound cassettes

Source (note)

Metropolitan Opera;

Contents

CD 1. Introduction and synopsis of Act 1 (Milton Cross) ; Act 1 -- CD 2. Act 2 ; Act 3 -- CD 3. Act 4 ; Closing remarks (Cross) -- CD 4. Opera news on the air: William Weaver discusses Il trovatore as a ballad opera ; Synopsis of Act 2 (Cross) ; Texaco's opera quiz: George Jellinek, Richard Mohr, Tony Randall, Edward Downes ; Synopsis of Act 3 (Cross) ; Singers' roundtable: Leonie Rysanek, Ezio Flagello, Paul Hume ; Synopsis of Act 4 (Cross).

Call Number

*LDC 35314

OCLC

NYPG84-R392

Author

Verdi, Giuseppe, 1813-1901.

Title

Il trovatore [sound recording] : opera in four acts / Giuseppe Verdi ; libretto by Salvatore Cammarano.

Playing Time

021828 012530

Series

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of \Mar. 17, 1973\730317\]

Performer

Montserrat Caballʹe (Leonora) ; Placido Domingo (Manrico) ; Fiorenza Cossotto (Azucena) ; Robert Merrill (Count di Luna) ; Jean Kraft (Inez) ; Ivo Vinco (Ferrando) ; Nico Castel (Ruiz) ; Edward Ghazal (gypsy) ; Fawayne Murphy (messenger) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; Carlo Felice Cillario, conductor ; Milton Cross, broadcast announcer.

Indexed In:

Opera news, v. 37, no. 19 (Mar. 17, 1973).

Event

Originally recorded in the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Mar. 17, 1973.

Original Version

Cassette tapes re-recorded at NYPL, Jan, 1984, from borrowed copies (3 sound tape reels : 7 1/2 ips, 2 track, stereo. ; 10 in.) of the original recording.

Reproduction

Cassette copy (3 sound cassettes : stereo., Dolby-B processed) available in *LTCM 29(F).

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Added Author

Cammarano, Salvatore, 1801-1852. Librettist

Caballé, Montserrat. Performer

Domingo, Plácido, 1941- Performer

Cossotto, Fiorenza. Performer

Merrill, Robert, 1917-2004, singer.

Kraft, Jean. Performer

Vinco, Ivo. Performer

Castel, Nico. Performer

Ghazal, Edward. Performer

Murphy, Fawayne. Performer

Cillario, Carlo Felice. Conductor

Cross, Milton, 1897-1975. Commentator

Weaver, William, 1923-2013, commentator.

Jellinek, George, 1919-2010, commentator.

Mohr, Richard. Commentator

Randall, Tony, commentator.

Downes, Edward, 1911-2001, commentator.

Rysanek, Leonie. Commentator

Flagello, Ezio. Commentator

Hume, Paul, 1915-2001, commentator.

Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.) Performer

Added Title

Opera news on the air (Radio program)

Texaco's opera quiz (Radio program)

Added Title

Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (Radio program)

Research Call Number

*LDC 35314 Service copy.

*LTCM 29 (F) Cassette copy; request service copy in *LDC 35314.

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