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Il trovatore opera in four acts

Title: Il trovatore [sound recording] : opera in four acts / Giuseppe Verdi ; libretto by Salvatore Cammarano.
Author: Verdi, Giuseppe, 1813-1901.

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Description

3 sound cassettes (222 min.) : analog, mono., Dolby-B processed.

Series Statement

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of 1967-02-18 (Feb. 18, 1967)]

Uniform Title

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

Subjects

Note

Title from house program ; series title from Opera news.
Durations: 1:24:00 (synopses and features) ; 2:18:00 (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, Feb. 18, 1967.

Language (note)

Sung in Italian.

Contents

side 1. Introduction and synopsis of act 1 (Milton Cross) ; Opera news on the air (William Weaver reports on the Rome Opera premier of Verdi's "Alzira") ; synopsis of act 2 (Cross) ; Texaco's opera quiz, beginning (Edward Downes, host, with Reginald Allen, Robert Lawrence, Allen Sven Oxenburg and Julius Rudel) -- side 2. Opera quiz, conclusion ; Synopsis of act 3 (Cross) ; Biographies in music (Francis Robinson interviews Alexander Kipnis) ; synopsis of act 4 (Cross) -- side 3. Act 1 -- side 4. Act 2 -- side 5. Act 3 -- side 6. Act 4 ; closing remarks (Cross).

Call Number

*LTCM 258 (F)

OCLC

NYPG87-R163

Author

Verdi, Giuseppe, 1813-1901.

Title

Il trovatore [sound recording] : opera in four acts / Giuseppe Verdi ; libretto by Salvatore Cammarano.

Playing Time

012400 021800

Series

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of 1967-02-18 (Feb. 18, 1967)]

Performer

Martina Arroyo (Leonora) ; Richard Tucker (Manrico) ; Robert Merrill (Count di Luna) ; Biserka Cvejić (Azucena) ; Shirley Love (Inez) ; Raymond Michalski (Ferrando) ; Dan Marek (Ruiz) ; Hal Roberts (Messenger) ; Luis Forero (Gypsy) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; Francesco Molinari-Pradelli, conductor ; Milton Cross, broadcast announcer.

Original Version

Re-recorded at NYPL in Dec. 1986, 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. 17 (Feb. 18, 1967).

Event

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

Language

Sung in Italian.

Added Author

Cammarano, Salvatore, 1801-1852. Librettist

Arroyo, Martina. Performer

Tucker, Richard, 1913-1975. Performer

Merrill, Robert, 1917-2004 Performer

Cvejić, Biserka. Performer

Love, Shirley. Performer

Michalski, Raymond. Performer

Marek, Dan. Performer

Weiss, Rob. Performer

Forero, Luis. Performer

Molinari-Pradelli, Francesco. Conductor

Cross, Milton, 1897-1975. Commentator

Weaver, William, 1923-2013, commentator.

Downes, Edward, 1911- Commentator

Allen, Reginald. Commentator

Lawrence, Robert, 1912- Commentator

Oxenburg, Allen Sven. Commentator

Rudel, Julius. Commentator

Robinson, Francis, 1910- Commentator

Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.)

Added Title

Opera news on the air (Radio program)

Texaco's opera quiz (Radio program)

Biographies in music (Radio program)

Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (Radio program)

Research Call Number

*LTCM 258 (F) Production notes on file.

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