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Gianni Schicchi opera in one act

Title: Gianni Schicchi [sound recording] : opera in one act / music by Giacomo Puccini ; libretto by Gioacchino Forzano. Salome : opera in one act / music by Richard Strauss ; libretto based on the poem by Oscar Wilde, translated into German by Hedwig Lachmann.
Author: Puccini, Giacomo, 1858-1924.

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Description

4 sound tape reels (192 min.) : analog, 7 1/2 ips, 2 track, mono.; 10 in.

Series Statement

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Jan. 19, 1952]

Uniform Title

Trittico. Gianni Schicchi. English
Texaco's opera quiz (Radio program)
Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (Radio program)

Alternative Title

Trittico. Gianni Schicchi.
Salome.

Subjects

Genre/Form

Live sound recordings.

Note

Title from house program; series title from Opera news.
Durations: 0:47:36 (synopses and features) ; 0:56:05 (Gianni Schicchi) ; 1:28:33 (Salome).
Production notes and official cast list (5 p.) on file in the Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound.

Indexed In (note)

Opera news

Performer (note)

In 1st work: Salvatore Baccaloni (Gianni Schicchi) ; Roberta Peters (Lauretta) ; Jean Madeira (Zita) ; Thomas Hayward (Rinuccio) ; Alessio De Paolis (Gherardo) ; Paula Lenchner (Nella) ; Eugene Tonry (Gherardino) ; George Cehanovsky (Betto) ; Lorenzo Alvary (Simone) ; Clifford Harvuot (Marco) ; Thelma Votipka (La Ciesca) ; Gerhard Pechner (Dr. Spinelloccio) ; Lawrence Davidson (Ser Amantio di Nicolao) ; Osie Hawkins (Pinellino) ; Norman Scott (Guccio).
In 2nd work: Set Svanholm (Herod) ; Elisabeth Hoengen (Herodia) ; Ljuba Welitsch (Salome) ; Hans Hotter (Jochanaan) ; Brian Sullivan (Narraboth) ; Herta Glaz (The page) ; Alois Pernerstorfer (First Nazarene) ; Emery Darcy (Second Nazarene) ; Gabor Carelli (First Jew) ; Thomas Hayward (Second Jew) ; Alessio De Paolis (Third Jew) ; Paul Franke (Fourth Jew) ; Gerhard Pechner (Fifth Jew) ; Norman Scott (First soldier) ; Lubomir Vichegonov (Second soldier) ; Osie Hawkins (A Cappadocian) ; Paula Lenchner (A slave).

Event (note)

Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Jan. 19, 1952.

Reproduction (note)

Service copy (3 sound cassettes : analog, mono., Dolby-B processed) available in: *LTCM 356 (F)

Language (note)

Gianni Schicchi sung in English; Salome sung in German.

Contents

side 1. Introduction and synopsis of Gianni Schicchi (Cross) ; Texaco's opera quiz (Robert Lawrence, host, with Boris Goldovsky, Sigmund Spaeth, Walter Ducloux and Robert Bagar) ; Synopsis of Salome (Cross) ; Closing remarks (Cross) -- side 2. [blank] -- side 3. Gianni Schicchi, beginning through "Oh! mio babbino caro" -- side 4. Gianni Schicchi concluded -- side 5. Salome, beginning through "Salome, komm trink Wein mit mir" -- side 6. Salome concluded.

Call Number

*LT-10 4905

OCLC

NYPG89-R220

Author

Puccini, Giacomo, 1858-1924.

Title

Gianni Schicchi [sound recording] : opera in one act / music by Giacomo Puccini ; libretto by Gioacchino Forzano. Salome : opera in one act / music by Richard Strauss ; libretto based on the poem by Oscar Wilde, translated into German by Hedwig Lachmann.

Playing Time

004736 005605 012833

Series

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Jan. 19, 1952]

Cast

In 1st work: Salvatore Baccaloni (Gianni Schicchi) ; Roberta Peters (Lauretta) ; Jean Madeira (Zita) ; Thomas Hayward (Rinuccio) ; Alessio De Paolis (Gherardo) ; Paula Lenchner (Nella) ; Eugene Tonry (Gherardino) ; George Cehanovsky (Betto) ; Lorenzo Alvary (Simone) ; Clifford Harvuot (Marco) ; Thelma Votipka (La Ciesca) ; Gerhard Pechner (Dr. Spinelloccio) ; Lawrence Davidson (Ser Amantio di Nicolao) ; Osie Hawkins (Pinellino) ; Norman Scott (Guccio).

In 2nd work: Set Svanholm (Herod) ; Elisabeth Hoengen (Herodia) ; Ljuba Welitsch (Salome) ; Hans Hotter (Jochanaan) ; Brian Sullivan (Narraboth) ; Herta Glaz (The page) ; Alois Pernerstorfer (First Nazarene) ; Emery Darcy (Second Nazarene) ; Gabor Carelli (First Jew) ; Thomas Hayward (Second Jew) ; Alessio De Paolis (Third Jew) ; Paul Franke (Fourth Jew) ; Gerhard Pechner (Fifth Jew) ; Norman Scott (First soldier) ; Lubomir Vichegonov (Second soldier) ; Osie Hawkins (A Cappadocian) ; Paula Lenchner (A slave).

Performer

In both works: Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; Fritz Reiner, conductor ; Milton Cross, broadcast announcer.

Indexed In:

Opera news, v. 16, no. 11 (Jan. 14, 1952).

Event

Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Jan. 19, 1952.

Original Version

Preservation tape, recorded at NYPL in Apr. 1989, from aluminum-based acetates (7 sound discs : analog, 33 1/3 rpm, mono. ; 16 in.) lent by the Metropolitan Opera.

Reproduction

Service copy (3 sound cassettes : analog, mono., Dolby-B processed) available in: *LTCM 356 (F)

Language

Gianni Schicchi sung in English; Salome sung in German.

Added Author

Forzano, Giovacchino. Librettist

Baccaloni, Salvatore, 1900-1969. Performer

Peters, Roberta, 1930-2017. Performer

Madeira, Jean. Performer

Hayward, Thomas, 1917-1995, singer.

De Paolis, Alessio. Performer

Lenchner, Paula. Performer

Tonry, Eugene. Performer

Cehanovsky, George, 1892-1986. Performer

Alvary, Lorenzo, 1909-1996, singer.

Harvuot, Clifford, 1912-1990. Performer

Votipka, Thelma. Performer

Pechner, Gerhard. Performer

Davidson, Lawrence (Baritone)

Hawkins, Osie. Performer

Scott, Norman, 1921-1968. Performer

Strauss, Richard, 1864-1949. Salome.

Lachmann, Hedwig. Librettist

Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900. Salomé. English.

Svanholm, Set. Performer

Höngen, Elisabeth, 1906-1997, singer.

Welitsch, Ljuba. Performer

Hotter, Hans. Performer

Sullivan, Brian, 1919-1969. Performer

Glaz, Herta, 1908-2006. Performer

Pernerstorfer, Alois, 1912-1978, singer.

Darcy, Emery. Performer

Carelli, Gabor. Performer

Franke, Paul, 1917-2011. Performer

Vichegonov, Lubomir. Performer

Reiner, Fritz, 1888-1963. Conductor

Cross, Milton, 1897-1975. Commentator

Lawrence, Robert, 1912-1981, commentator.

Goldovsky, Boris. Commentator

Spaeth, Sigmund, 1885-1965. Commentator

Ducloux, Walter. Commentator

Bagar, Robert C. Commentator

Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.)

Added Title

Texaco's opera quiz (Radio program)

Salome.

Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (Radio program)

Research Call Number

*LT-10 4905 Master tape. Request cassette service copy in *LTCM 356 (F)

*LTCM 356 (F) Cassette service copy; production notes on file. Master tape in *LT-10 4905.

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