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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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Description

4 sound tape reels (178 min.) : analog, 7 1/2 ips, 2 track, mono.; 10 in.

Series Statement

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Mar. 14, 1953]

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

Title from house program ; series title from Opera news.
Durations: 0:47:21 (synopses and features) ; 2:10:00 (opera).
Production notes and official cast list (3 p.) on file in the Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound.

Indexed In (note)

Opera news

Performer (note)

Risë Stevens (Dalila) ; Ramon Vinay (Samson) ; Sigurd Bjoerling (High Priest) ; Norman Scott (Abimelech) ; Lubomir Vichegonov (The old Hebrew) ; Emery Darcy (Philistine messenger) ; Paul Franke (First Philistine) ; George Cehanovsky (Second Philistine) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; Fausto Cleva, conductor ; Milton Cross, broadcast announcer.

Event (note)

Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Mar. 14, 1953.

Reproduction (note)

Service copy (2 sound cassettes : analog, mono., Dolby-B processed) available in: *LTCM 344 (F)

Language (note)

Sung in French.

Contents

side 1. Introduction and synopsis of act 1 (Milton Cross) ; Mrs. August Belmont ; Opera news on the air (Boris Goldovsky, host, with Margarete Matzenauer) ; Synopsis of act 2 (Cross) ; Texaco's opera quiz (Robert Lawrence, host, with George Marek, Robert Bagar and Sigmund Spaeth) ; Synopsis of act 3 (Cross) -- side 2. Act 1 -- side 3. Act 2 -- side 4. Act 3.

Call Number

*LT-10 4894

OCLC

NYPG89-R73

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

04721 21000

Series

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Mar. 14, 1953]

Cast

Risë Stevens (Dalila) ; Ramon Vinay (Samson) ; Sigurd Bjoerling (High Priest) ; Norman Scott (Abimelech) ; Lubomir Vichegonov (The old Hebrew) ; Emery Darcy (Philistine messenger) ; Paul Franke (First Philistine) ; George Cehanovsky (Second Philistine) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; Fausto Cleva, conductor ; Milton Cross, broadcast announcer.

Indexed In:

Opera news, v. 17, no. 19 (Mar. 9, 1953).

Event

Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Mar. 14, 1953.

Original Version

Preservation tapes recorded at NYPL in Apr. 1989, from aluminum-based acetates (6 sound discs : analog, 33 1/3 rpm, mono. ; 16 in.) lent by the Metropolitan Opera.

Reproduction

Service copy (2 sound cassettes : analog, mono., Dolby-B processed) available in: *LTCM 344 (F)

Language

Sung in French.

Added Author

Lemaire, Ferdinand. Librettist

Stevens, Risë, 1913- Performer

Vinay, Ramon. Performer

Björling, Sigurd. Performer

Scott, Norman, 1921-1968. Performer

Vichegonov, Lubomir. Performer

Darcy, Emery. Performer

Franke, Paul, 1917-2011. Performer

Cehanovsky, George, 1892-1986. Performer

Cleva, Fausto. Conductor

Cross, Milton, 1897-1975. Commentator

Belmont, Eleanor Robson, 1879- Commentator

Goldovsky, Boris. Commentator

Matzenauer, Margarete, 1881-1963. Commentator

Lawrence, Robert, 1912- Commentator

Marek, George R. (George Richard), 1902-1987. Commentator

Bagar, Robert C. Commentator

Spaeth, Sigmund, 1885-1965. Commentator

Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.)

Added Title

Opera news on the air (Radio program)

Texaco's opera quiz (Radio program)

Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (Radio program)

Research Call Number

*LT-10 4894 Master tape. Request cassette service copy in *LTCM 344 (F)

*LTCM 344 (F) Cassette service copy; production notes on file. Master tape in *LT-10 4894.

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