Research Catalog

Title

Pelléas et Mélisande [sound recording] : opera in three acts / Claude Debussy ; play by Maurice Maeterlinck.

Author

Debussy, Claude, 1862-1918.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Maeterlinck, Maurice, 1862-1949.
• Blegen, Judith
• McDaniel, Barry
• Stewart, Thomas, 1926-
• Tozzi, Giorgio
• Chookasian, Lili
• Klein, Adam
• Harvuot, Clifford, 1912-1990.
• Boucher, Gene
• Davis, Colin, 1927-
• Cross, Milton, 1897-1975.
• Goldovsky, Boris
• Downes, Edward, 1911-
• King, Gibner
• Lawrence, Robert, 1912-
• Stivender, David
• Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.) prf
• Metropolitan Opera Radio Broadcast collection

Description

3 sound cassettes (225 min.) : stereo., Dolby-B processed.

Series Statement

• Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of \Jan. 29, 1972
• Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of \Jan. 29, 1972.

Uniform Title

• Pelléas et Mélisande
• Opera news on the air (Radio program)
• Texaco's opera quiz (Radio program)
• Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (Radio program)

Alternative Title

Pelléas et Mélisande

Subject

• Operas

Note

• Title from house program ; series title from Opera news.
• Durations: 2:51:49 (opera) ; 0:52:51 (synopses and features).
• Production notes and official cast list (6 p.) on file in the Rodgers and Hammerstein listening room.

Indexed In (note)

• Opera news

Event (note)

• Originally recorded in the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Jan. 29, 1972.

Language (note)

• Sung in French.

Contents

side 1. Introduction and synopsis of act 1 (Milton Cross) ; Opera news on the air: Boris Goldovsky gives a musical and dramatic analysis of Pelléas et Mélisande ; Synopsis of act 2 (Cross) -- side 2. Texaco's opera quiz (Edward Downes, Boris Goldovsky, Gibner King, Robert Lawrence, David Stivender ; Synopsis of act 3 (Cross) -- side 3. Act 1 to Iles juene -- side 4. Act 1, conclusion ; Act 2 to Qu'ils s'embrassent, petite pere? -- side 5. Act 2, conclusion -- side 6. Act 3 ; Closing remarks (Cross).

Call Number

*LTCM 41 (F)

OCLC

NYPG84-R704

Author

Debussy, Claude, 1862-1918.

Title

Pelléas et Mélisande [sound recording] : opera in three acts / Claude Debussy ; play by Maurice Maeterlinck.

Playing Time

025149 005251

Series

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of \Jan. 29, 1972

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of \Jan. 29, 1972.

Performer

Judith Blegen (Mélisande) ; Barry McDaniel (Pelléas) ; Thomas Stewart (Golaud) ; Giorgio Tozzi (King Arkel) ; Lili Chookasian (Geneviève) : Adam Klein (Yniold) ; Clifford Harvuot (physician) ; Gene Boucher (shepherd) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; Colin Davis, conductor ; Milton Cross, broadcast announcer.

Original Version

Re-recorded at NYPL, Apr., 1984, from borrowed copies (4 sound tape reels : 7 1/2 ips, 2 track, stereo. ; 10 in.) of the original recording.

Indexed In:

Opera news, v. 36, no. 10 (Jan. 29, 1972).

Event

Originally recorded in the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Jan. 29, 1972.

Language

Sung in French.

Added Author

Maeterlinck, Maurice, 1862-1949. Pelléas et Mélisande.

Blegen, Judith. Performer

McDaniel, Barry. Performer

Stewart, Thomas, 1926- Performer

Tozzi, Giorgio. Performer

Chookasian, Lili. Performer

Klein, Adam. Performer

Harvuot, Clifford, 1912-1990. Performer

Boucher, Gene. Performer

Davis, Colin, 1927- Conductor

Cross, Milton, 1897-1975. Commentator

Goldovsky, Boris. Commentator

Downes, Edward, 1911- Commentator

King, Gibner. Commentator

Lawrence, Robert, 1912- Commentator

Stivender, David. Commentator

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

Added Title

Opera news on the air (Radio program)

Texaco's opera quiz (Radio program)

Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (Radio program)

Research Call Number

*LTCM 41 (F) (Production notes filed in listening room.)