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Ernani opera in four acts

Title: Ernani [sound recording] : opera in four acts / Giuseppe Verdi ; libretto by F.M. Piave, based on the drama of Victor Hugo.
Author: Verdi, Giuseppe, 1813-1901

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Description

on 5 sides of 3 sound cassettes (198 min.) : analog, mono., Dolby-B processed.

Series Statement

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Apr. 10, 1965]

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: 1:22:45 (synopses and features) ; 1:55:40 (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)

Franco Corelli (Ernani) ; Leontyne Price (Elvira) ; Cesare Siepi (Silva) ; Mario Sereni (Carlo) ; Charles Anthony (Riccardo) ; Russell Christopher (Iago) ; Carlotta Ordassy (Giovanna) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; Thomas Schippers, conductor ; Milton Cross, broadcast announcer.

Event (note)

Originally broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Apr. 10, 1965.

Language (note)

Sung in Italian.

Contents

side 1. Introduction and synopsis of act 1 (Milton Cross) ; Opera news on the air (William Weaver interviews Maria Callas) ; Synopsis of act 2 (Cross) -- side 2. Texaco's opera quiz (Edward Downes, host, with Mary Ellis Peltz, Frank Merkling, Alan Rich and Sigmund Spaeth) ; Synopsis of Act 3 (Cross) ; Biographies in music (Francis Robinson interviews Marian Anderson) ; Synopsis of act 4 (Cross) -- side 3. Act 1 -- side 4. Act 2 -- side 5. Act 3 ; Act 4 ; Closing remarks (Cross).

Call Number

*LTCM 224 (F)

OCLC

NYPG86-R149

Author

Verdi, Giuseppe, 1813-1901.

Title

Ernani [sound recording] : opera in four acts / Giuseppe Verdi ; libretto by F.M. Piave, based on the drama of Victor Hugo.

Playing Time

012245 015540

Series

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Apr. 10, 1965]

Cast

Franco Corelli (Ernani) ; Leontyne Price (Elvira) ; Cesare Siepi (Silva) ; Mario Sereni (Carlo) ; Charles Anthony (Riccardo) ; Russell Christopher (Iago) ; Carlotta Ordassy (Giovanna) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; Thomas Schippers, conductor ; Milton Cross, broadcast announcer.

Indexed In:

Opera news, v. 29, no. 22 (Apr. 10, 1965).

Event

Originally broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Apr. 10, 1965.

Original Version

Re-recorded at NYPL in Mar. 1986, from borrowed masters (4 sound tape reels : 7 1/2 ips, 1 track, mono. ; 10 in.).

Language

Sung in Italian.

Added Author

Piave, Francesco Maria, 1810-1876. Librettist

Hugo, Victor, 1802-1885. Hernani.

Corelli, Franco. Performer

Price, Leontyne. Performer

Siepi, Cesare. Performer

Sereni, Mario. Performer

Anthony, Charles, 1929-2012. Performer

Christopher, Russell. Performer

Ordassy, Carlotta. Performer

Schippers, Thomas. Conductor

Cross, Milton, 1897-1975. Commentator

Weaver, William, 1923-2013, commentator.

Callas, Maria, 1923-1977. Commentator

Downes, Edward, 1911- Commentator

Peltz, Mary Ellis, 1896-1981. Commentator

Merkling, Frank. Commentator

Rich, Alan. Commentator

Spaeth, Sigmund, 1885-1965. Commentator

Robinson, Francis, 1910- Commentator

Anderson, Marian, 1897-1993. 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 224 (F) \(Production notes filed in listening room).

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