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Tosca opera in three acts...

Title: Tosca [sound recording] : opera in three acts... / Giacomo Puccini ; libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa, founded on La Tosca, play by Victorien Sardou.
Author: Puccini, Giacomo, 1858-1924.

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Description

on 5 sides of 3 sound cassettes (184 min.) : analog, mono., Dolby-B processed.

Series Statement

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of \Apr. 18, 1964\640418\]

Uniform Title

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

Subjects

Genre/Form

Live sound recordings.

Note

Title from Opera news.
Durations: 1:13:00 (synopses and features) ; 1:51:25 (opera).
Production notes and official cast list (6 p.) on file in the Rodgers & Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound.

Indexed In (note)

Opera news

Performer (note)

Birgit Nilsson (Tosca) ; Franco Corelli (Cavaradossi) ; George London (Scarpia) ; Norman Scott (Angelotti) ; Fernando Corena (Sacristan) ; Paul Franke (Spoletta) ; Calvin Marsh (Sciarrone) ; Stuart Fischer (Shepherd boy) ; Robert Patterson (Jailer) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; Fausto Cleva, conductor ; Milton Cross, broadcast announcer.

Event (note)

Originally broadcast live from the Music Hall, Boston, Apr. 18, 1964.

Language (note)

Sung in Italian.

Contents

side 1. Introduction and synopsis of act 1 (Milton Cross) ; Texaco's opera quiz (Edward Downes, host, with Mary Ellis Peltz, Boris Goldovsky, Terry McEwen and Jay Harrison) ; Synopsis of act 2 (Cross) -- side 2. Opera news on the air (Downes discusses the 1964-65 season with Rudolf Bing) ; Synopsis of act 3 (Cross) -- side 3. Act 1 -- side 4. act 2 -- side 5. Act 3 ; Closing remarks (Cross).

Call Number

*LTCM 205 (F)

OCLC

NYPG86-R22

Author

Puccini, Giacomo, 1858-1924.

Title

Tosca [sound recording] : opera in three acts... / Giacomo Puccini ; libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa, founded on La Tosca, play by Victorien Sardou.

Playing Time

011300 015125

Series

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of \Apr. 18, 1964\640418\]

Cast

Birgit Nilsson (Tosca) ; Franco Corelli (Cavaradossi) ; George London (Scarpia) ; Norman Scott (Angelotti) ; Fernando Corena (Sacristan) ; Paul Franke (Spoletta) ; Calvin Marsh (Sciarrone) ; Stuart Fischer (Shepherd boy) ; Robert Patterson (Jailer) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; Fausto Cleva, conductor ; Milton Cross, broadcast announcer.

Indexed In:

Opera news, v. 28, no. 23 (Apr. 18, 1964).

Event

Originally broadcast live from the Music Hall, Boston, Apr. 18, 1964.

Original Version

Re-recorded at NYPL in Nov. 1985, from borrowed masters (3 sound tape reels : 7 1/2 ips, 1 track, mono. ; 10 in.) of the original recording.

Language

Sung in Italian.

Added Author

Illica, Luigi, 1857-1919. Librettist

Giacosa, Giuseppe, 1847-1906. Librettist

Sardou, Victorien, 1831-1908. Tosca.

Nilsson, Birgit. Performer

Corelli, Franco. Performer

London, George, 1920-1985. Performer

Scott, Norman, 1921-1968. Performer

Corena, Fernando. Performer

Franke, Paul, 1917-2011. Performer

Marsh, Calvin. Performer

Fischer, Stuart. Performer

Patterson, Robert (Baritone) Performer

Cleva, Fausto. Conductor

Cross, Milton, 1897-1975. Commentator

Downes, Edward, 1911- Commentator

Peltz, Mary Ellis, 1896-1981. Commentator

Goldovsky, Boris. Commentator

McEwen, Terry. Commentator

Harrison, Jay. Commentator

Bing, Rudolf, 1902-1997. Commentator

Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.)

Added Title

Texaco's opera quiz (Radio program)

Opera news on the air (Radio program)

Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (Radio program)

Research Call Number

*LTCM 205 (F) \(Production notes in listening room.)

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