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Les Troyens opera in three acts

Title: Les Troyens [sound recording] : opera in three acts / music by Hector Berlioz ; libretto by the composer, after Virgil.
Author: Berlioz, Hector, 1803-1869.

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Description

6 sound discs (312 min.) : digital, stereo.; 4 3/4 in.

Donor/Sponsor

Gift of the Metropolitan Opera.

Series Statement

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Jan. 1, 1994]

Uniform Title

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

Subjects

Genre/Form

Live sound recordings.

Note

Durations: 0:59:48 (synopses and features) ; 4:13:22 (opera).
Compact discs.
Production notes and official cast list (5 p.) filed under classmark: *LTCM 731 (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, Jan. 1, 1994.

Reproduction (note)

Cassette copy (4 sound cassettes : analog, stereo, Dolby-B processed) available in: *LTCM 731 (F).

Source (note)

Metropolitan Opera;

Language (note)

Sung in French.

Contents

CD 1. Introduction and synopsis of Act 1 (Peter Allen) ; Act 1, part 1 -- CD 2. Act 1, part 2 -- CD 3. Act 2, part 1 -- CD 4. Act 2, part 2 -- CD 5. Act 3 ; Closing remarks (Allen) -- CD 6. Opera news on the air: Albert Innaurato discusses "Les Troyens" ; Met Moments, 1973 roundtable (Edward Downes, host, with Plʹacido Domingo, Shirley Verrett and Franco Corena) ; Synopsis of Act 2 (Allen) ; Texaco's opera quiz (Thor Eckert Jr., host, with M. Owen Lee, William Livingstone and Antony Tommasini) ; Synopsis of Act 3 (Allen).

Call Number

*LDC 33905

OCLC

NYPG95-R608

Author

Berlioz, Hector, 1803-1869. Composer. Librettist

Title

Les Troyens [sound recording] : opera in three acts / music by Hector Berlioz ; libretto by the composer, after Virgil.

Playing Time

005948 041322

Series

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Jan. 1, 1994]

Performer

Kim Josephson (A Trojan soldier) ; Fran̨coise Pollet (Cassandra) ; Dwayne Croft (Coroebus) ; Jeffrey Wells (Priam, Ghost of Priam) ; Jane Shaulis (Hecuba, Ghost of Cassandra) ; John Horton Murray (Helenus) ; Jane White (Andromache) ; Ilya Ostrovski (Astyanax) ; Gary Lakes (Aeneas) ; Susan Graham (Ascanius) ; Julien Robbins (Panthus) ; Terry Cook (Ghost of Hector) ; Maria Ewing (Dido) ; Wendy White (Anna) ; Paul Plishka (Narbal) ; Donald Kaasch (Iopas) ; Yanni Yannissis (The god Mercury, First Trojan soldier) ; Paul Groves (Hylas) ; James Courtney (Second Trojan soldier) ; Christopher Schaldenbrand (Ghost of Coroebus) ; Deanne Lay, Marcus Bugler, Joseph Fritz (Builders) ; Rachel Schuette, Ricardo Costa, Christopher Stocker (Sailors) ; Linda Gelinas, Antoinette Peloso, Dean Dufford (Farmers) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; James Levine, conductor ; Peter Allen, broadcast announcer.

Indexed In:

Opera news, v. 58, no. 7 (Dec. 25, 1993).

Event

Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Jan. 1, 1994.

Original Version

Preservation tape, recorded at NYPL in Mar. 1995, from borrowed masters (5 tape reels : analog, 7 1/2 ips, stereo ; 10 in.) lent by the Metropolitan Opera.

Reproduction

Cassette copy (4 sound cassettes : analog, stereo, Dolby-B processed) available in: *LTCM 731 (F).

Language

Sung in French.

Connect to:

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Added Author

Adaptation of (work): Virgil. Aeneis.

Josephson, Kim. Performer

Pollet, Françoise. Performer

Croft, Dwayne. Performer

Wells, Jeffrey. Performer

Shaulis, Jane. Performer

Murray, John Horton. Performer

White, Jane. Performer

Ostrovski, Ilya. Performer

Lakes, Gary. Performer

Graham, Susan (Singer) Performer

Robbins, Julien. Performer

Cook, Terry. Performer

Ewing, Maria. Performer

White, Wendy. Performer

Plishka, Paul, 1941- Performer

Kaasch, Donald. Performer

Yannissis, Yanni. Performer

Groves, Paul (Tenor), performer.

Courtney, James, 1946- Performer

Schaldenbrand, Christopher. Performer

Lay, Deanne. Performer

Bugler, Marcus. Performer

Fritz, Joseph. Performer

Schuette, Rachel. Performer

Costa, Ricardo L. Performer

Stocker, Christopher. Performer

Gelinas, Linda. Performer

Peloso, Antoinette. Performer

Dufford, Dean. Performer

Levine, James, 1943-2021. Conductor

Allen, Peter, 1920-2016. Commentator

Innaurato, Albert, 1947-2017. Commentator

Eckert, Thor, Jr. Commentator

Lee, M. Owen, 1930-2019. Commentator

Livingstone, William. Commentator

Tommasini, Antony. Commentator

Downes, Edward, 1911- Commentator

Domingo, Plácido, 1941- Commentator

Verrett, Shirley. Commentator

Corena, Franco. Commentator

Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.)

Added Title

Opera news on the air (Radio program)

Texaco's opera quiz (Radio program)

Singers' roundtable (Radio program)

Met moments (Radio program)

Added Title

Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (Radio program)

Research Call Number

*LDC 33905 Service copy.

*LT-10-A 1584 Master tape. Request service copy in *LDC 33905

*LTCM 731 (F) Cassette copy; production notes on file. Request service copy in *LDC 33905.

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