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Madama Butterfly opera in three acts

Title: Madama Butterfly [sound recording] : opera in three acts / music by Giacomo Puccini ; libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa, founded on Madama Butterfly, novella by John Luther Long and play by David Belasco.
Author: Puccini, Giacomo, 1858-1924.

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Description

3 sound cassettes (190 min.) : analog, mono., Dolby-B processed.

Series Statement

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of 1967-03-18 (Mar. 18, 1967)]

Uniform Title

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

Subject

Operas

Note

Titles from Opera news.
Durations: 0:56:00 (synopses and features) ; 2:14:00 (opera).
Production notes and official cast list (6 p.) on file in the Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound.

Indexed In (note)

Opera news

Event (note)

Originally broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Mar. 18, 1967.

Language (note)

Sung in Italian.

Contents

side 1. Introduction and synopsis of act 1 (Milton Cross) ; Opera news on the air (Rudolf Bing talks to the radio audience) ; Synopsis of act 2 (Cross) -- side 2. Texaco's opera quiz (Edward Downes, host, with John Coveney, Walter Ducloux, Osie Hawkins and Alfred Hubay) ; Synopsis of act 2 (Cross) -- side 3. Act 1 to "or son contenta" -- side 4. Act 1, conclusion ; Act 2 to "Il Cannone del porto!" -- side 5. Act 2, conclusion -- side 6. Act 3 ; Closing remarks (Cross).

Call Number

*LTCM 262 (F)

OCLC

NYPG87-R169

Author

Puccini, Giacomo, 1858-1924. Composer

Title

Madama Butterfly [sound recording] : opera in three acts / music by Giacomo Puccini ; libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa, founded on Madama Butterfly, novella by John Luther Long and play by David Belasco.

Playing Time

005600 021400

Series

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of 1967-03-18 (Mar. 18, 1967)]

Performer

Renata Scotto (Cio-Cio-San) ; George Shirley (B.F. Pinkerton) ; Ron Bottcher (U.S. Consul Sharpless) ; Nedda Casei (Suzuki) ; Shirley Love (Kate Pinkerton) ; Andrea Velis (Goro) ; Russell Christopher (Yamadori) ; Lorenzo Alvary (Uncle-priest) ; Gene Boucher (Imperial Commissary) ; William Stanz (Registrar) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; Francesco Molinari-Pradelli, conductor ; Milton Cross, broadcast announcer.

Original Version

Re-recorded at NYPL in Apr. 1987, from masters borrowed from the Metropolitan Opera (4 sound tape reels : 7 1/2 ips, 2 track, mono. ; 10 in.).

Indexed In:

Opera news, v. 31, no. 21 (Mar. 18, 1967).

Event

Originally broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Mar. 18, 1967.

Language

Sung in Italian.

Added Author

Giacosa, Giuseppe, 1847-1906. Librettist

Illica, Luigi, 1857-1919. Librettist

Belasco, David, 1853-1931. Madame Butterfly.

Long, John Luther, 1861-1927. Madame Butterfly.

Scotto, Renata, 1934-2023. Performer

Shirley, George. Performer

Bottcher, Ron. Performer

Casei, Nedda, 1935-2020. Performer

Love, Shirley. Performer

Velis, Andrea, 1932-1994. Performer

Christopher, Russell. Performer

Alvary, Lorenzo, 1909- Performer

Boucher, Gene. Performer

Stanz, William. Performer

Molinari-Pradelli, Francesco. Conductor

Cross, Milton, 1897-1975. Commentator

Bing, Rudolf, 1902-1997. Commentator

Downes, Edward, 1911- Commentator

Coveney, John. Commentator

Ducloux, Walter. Commentator

Hawkins, Osie. Commentator

Hubay, Alfred. Commentator

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

Added Title

Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (Radio program)

Opera news on the air (Radio program)

Texaco's opera quiz (Radio program)

Research Call Number

*LTCM 262 (F) Production notes on file.

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