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Samson et Dalila opera in three acts

Title: Samson et Dalila [sound recording] : opera in three acts / music by Camille Saint-Saens ; libretto by Ferdinand Lemaire.
Author: Saint-Saëns, Camille, 1835-1921.

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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.	Audio	Use in library	*LDC 32747 [CD. Service copy]	Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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Description

4 sound discs (191 min.) : digital ; stereo.; 4 3/4 in.

Donor/Sponsor

Gift of the Metropolitan Opera.

Series Statement

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Apr. 18, 1987]

Uniform Title

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

Subjects

Genre/Form

Live sound recordings.

Note

Sung in French.
Durations: 0:49:14 (synopses and features) ; 2:22:20 (opera).
Compact discs.
Production notes and official cast list (4 p.) on file in the Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound (filed under classmark: *LTCM 515 (F)).
House program on file in Music Division.

Indexed In (note)

Opera news

Event (note)

Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Apr. 18, 1987.

Reproduction (note)

Cassette copy (3 sound cassettes : stereo, Dolby-B processed) available in: *LTCM 515 (F)

Source (note)

Metropolitan;

Contents

CD 1. Introduction and synopsis of Act I (Peter Allen) ; Act I -- CD 2. Act II -- CD 3. Act III ; Closing remarks (Allen) -- CD 4. Opera news on the air (Nimet Habachy) ; Synopsis of Act II (Allen) ; Texaco's opera quiz (Edward Downes, host, with Alberta Masiello, Martin Bernheimer and Alison Ames) ; Synopsis of Act III (Allen).

Call Number

*LTCM 515 (F)

OCLC

NYPG91-R645

Author

Saint-Saëns, Camille, 1835-1921.

Title

Samson et Dalila [sound recording] : opera in three acts / music by Camille Saint-Saens ; libretto by Ferdinand Lemaire.

Playing Time

004914 022220

Series

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Apr. 18, 1987]

Performer

Jon Vickers (Samson) ; Terry Cook (Abimelech) ; Louis Quilico (The High Priest) ; Mark Baker (First Philistine) ; Russell Christopher (Second Philistine) ; Charles Anthony (A Philistine Messenger) ; John Macurdy (An Old Hebrew) ; Marilyn Horne (Dalila) ; Metropoltian Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; Jean Fournet, conductor ; Peter Allen, broadcast announcer.

Indexed In:

Opera news, v. 51, no. 15 (Apr. 11, 1987).

Event

Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Apr. 18, 1987.

Original Version

Cassette tapes re-recorded at NYPL in Aug. 1991, from aluminum-based acetates (3 sound tape reels : 7 1/2 ips, 2 track, stereo ; 10 in.) lent by the Metropolitan Opera.

Reproduction

Cassette copy (3 sound cassettes : stereo, Dolby-B processed) available in: *LTCM 515 (F)

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Added Author

Lemaire, Ferdinand. Librettist

Vickers, Jon. Performer

Cook, Terry. Performer

Quilico, Louis. Performer

Baker, Mark (Tenor), performer.

Christopher, Russell. Performer

Anthony, Charles, 1929-2012. Performer

Macurdy, John. Performer

Horne, Marilyn. Performer

Fournet, Jean. Conductor

Allen, Peter, 1920-2016. Commentator

Ramey, Samuel. Commentator

Habachy, Nimet. Commentator

Downes, Edward, 1911- Commentator

Masiello, Alberta. Commentator

Bernheimer, Martin. Commentator

Ames, Alison, 1945- Commentator

Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.)

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

*LTCM 515 (F) Cassette copy. (Production notes in listening room.) Use service copy in *LDC 32747.

*LDC 32747 Service copy.

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