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Faust opera in three acts

Title: Faust [sound recording] : opera in three acts / Charles Gounod ; libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré.
Author: Gounod, Charles, 1818-1893.

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Description

on 7 sides of 4 sound cassettes (220 min.) : stereo., Dolby-B processed.

Series Statement

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of \Feb. 26, 1972
Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of \Feb. 26, 1972.

Uniform Title

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

Alternative Title

Faust

Subject

Operas

Note

Title from house program ; series title from Opera news.
Durations: 2:41:50 (opera) ; 0:58:16 (synopses and features).
Production notes and official cast list (7 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, Feb. 26, 1972.

Language (note)

Sung in French.

Contents

side 1. Introduction and synopsis of act 1 (Milton Cross) ; Opera news on the air : the devil in opera (Ivan Davis gives a biography of Paganini) ; Synopsis of act 2 (Cross) -- side 2. Texaco's opera quiz with Edward Downes, John Coveney, Ivan Davis, Terry McEwen, and William Walker ; Synopsis of act 3 (Cross) -- side 3. Act 1 through the Song of the golden calf -- side 4. Act 1, conclusion ; Act 2 through the Jewel song -- side 5. Act 2, conclusion ; Act 3 through Qu'attendez-vous encore? -- side 6. Act 3, continued through the Walpurgis night -- side 7. Act 3, final scene.

Call Number

*LTCM 44 (F)

OCLC

NYPG84-R709

Author

Gounod, Charles, 1818-1893.

Title

Faust [sound recording] : opera in three acts / Charles Gounod ; libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré.

Playing Time

024150 005816

Series

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of \Feb. 26, 1972

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of \Feb. 26, 1972.

Performer

Placido Domingo (Faust) ; Teresa Zylis-Gara (Marguerite) ; Giorgio Tozzi (Méphistophélès) ; Mario Sereni (Valentin) ; Frederica von Stade (Siébel) ; Batyah Godfrey (Marthe) ; Russell Christopher (Wagner) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; Martin Rich, conductor ; Milton Cross, broadcast ammouncer.

Original Version

Re-recorded at NYPL, Mar., 1984, from borrowed copies (5 sound tape reels : 7 1/2 ips, 2 track and 4 track, stereo and mono. ; 10 in.) of the original recording.

Indexed In:

Opera news, v. 36, no. 14 (Feb. 26, 1972).

Event

Originally recorded in the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Feb. 26, 1972.

Language

Sung in French.

Added Author

Barbier, Jules, 1825-1901. Librettist

Carré, Michel, 1819-1872. Librettist

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832. Faust.

Domingo, Plácido, 1941- Performer

Zylis-Gara, Teresa. Performer

Tozzi, Giorgio. Performer

Sereni, Mario. Performer

Von Stade, Frederica. Performer

Godfrey Ben-David, Batyah. Performer

Christopher, Russell. Performer

Rich, Martin. Conductor

Cross, Milton, 1897-1975. Commentator

Davis, Ivan. Commentator

Coveney, John. Commentator

McEwen, Terry. Commentator

Weaver, William, 1923-2013, commentator.

Downes, Edward, 1911- 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 44 (F) (Production notes filed in listening room.)

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