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Semiramide opera in two acts

Title: Semiramide [sound recording] : opera in two acts / music by Gioacchino Rossini ; libretto by Gaetano Rossi, based on the tragedy by Voltaire.
Author: Rossini, Gioacchino, 1792-1868.

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Description

4 sound discs (219 min.) : digital, stereo.; 4 3/4 in.

Series Statement

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Dec. 29, 1990]

Uniform Title

Texaco's opera quiz (Radio program)
Met moments (Radio program)
Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (Radio program)

Subjects

Genre/Form

Live sound recordings.

Note

Title from house program ; series title from Opera news.
Durations: 0:33:52 (synopses and features) ; 3:05:35 (opera).
Production notes and official cast list (4 p.) on file in the Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound.
Compact discs.

Indexed In (note)

Opera news

Event (note)

Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Dec. 29, 1990.

Reproduction (note)

Preservation copy (3 sound cassettes : stereo, Dolby-B processed) in: *LTCM 580 (F)

Language (note)

Sung in Italian.

Contents

CD 1. Act 1, part 1 -- CD 2. Act 1, part 2 ; Act 2, part 1 -- CD 3. Act 2, part 2 ; Closing remarks (Allen) -- CD 4. Introduction and synopsis of Act 1 (Peter Allen) ; Texaco's opera quiz (Edward Downes, host, with Alison Ames, M. Owen Lee and Charles Osborne) ; Met Moment (Clifton Fadiman, host, with Artur Rubinstein) ; Synopsis of Act 2 (Allen).

Call Number

*LDC 29117

OCLC

NYPG92-R917

Author

Rossini, Gioacchino, 1792-1868. Composer

Title

Semiramide [sound recording] : opera in two acts / music by Gioacchino Rossini ; libretto by Gaetano Rossi, based on the tragedy by Voltaire.

Playing Time

003352 030535

Series

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Dec. 29, 1990]

Performer

John Cheek (Oroe) ; Chris Merritt (Idreno) ; Samuel Ramey (Assur) ; Lella Cuberli (Semiramide) ; Marilyn Horne (Arsace) ; Young Ok Shin (Azema) ; Michael Forest (Mitrane) ; Jeffrey Wells (Ghost of Ninus) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; James Conlon, conductor ; Peter Allen, broadcast announcer.

Original Version

Re-recorded at NYPL in Apr. 1992, from borrowed masters (3 sound tape reels : 7 1/2 ips, 2 track, stereo ; 10 in.) lent by the Metropolitan Opera.

Indexed In:

Opera news, v. 55, no. 7 (Dec. 22, 1990).

Event

Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Dec. 29, 1990.

Reproduction

Preservation copy (3 sound cassettes : stereo, Dolby-B processed) in: *LTCM 580 (F)

Language

Sung in Italian.

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Added Author

Rossi, Gaetano, 1774-1855. Librettist

Voltaire, 1694-1778. Semiramide.

Cheek, John, 1948- Performer

Merritt, Chris, 1952- Performer

Ramey, Samuel. Performer

Cuberli, Lella. Performer

Horne, Marilyn. Performer

Shin, Young Ok. Performer

Forest, Michael. Performer

Wells, Jeffrey. Performer

Conlon, James, 1950- Conductor

Allen, Peter, 1920- Commentator

Merrill, Robert, 1917-2004 Commentator

Downes, Edward, 1911- Commentator

Lee, M. Owen, 1930-2019. Commentator

Ames, Alison, 1945- Commentator

Osborne, Charles, 1927-2017. Commentator

Fadiman, Clifton, 1904-1999. Host

Rubinstein, Artur, 1887-1982. Commentator

Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.)

Added Title

Texaco's opera quiz (Radio program)

Met moments (Radio program)

Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (Radio program)

Research Call Number

*LDC 29117 Service copy.

*LTCM 580 (F) Preservation copy. (Production notes in listening room.) Use service copy in *LDC 29117.

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