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Un ballo in maschera : opera in three acts

Title: Un ballo in maschera : radio broadcast, 1963-01-12 [sound recording] : opera in three acts / Giuseppe Verdi ; libretto by Antonio Somma, after Scribe's play, Gustave III, or Le bal masque.
Author: Verdi, Giuseppe, 1813-1901

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Description

3 sound cassettes (204 min.) : analog, mono., Dolby-B processed.

Series Statement

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; broadcast of Jan. 12, 1963

Uniform Title

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

Subject

Operas

Note

Sung in Italian.
Title from house program ; series title from Opera news.
Durations: 1:05:30 (synopses and features) ; 2:18:50 (opera).
With production notes and official cast list (6 p.).

Indexed In (note)

Opera news

Event (note)

Originally recorded in the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Jan. 12, 1963.

Contents

side 1. Introduction and synopsis of act 1 (Milton Cross) ; Texaco's opera quiz, part 1: Edward Downes, Walter Ducloux, Sigmund Levarie and Robert Lawrence discuss musical styles ; Synopsis of act 2 (Cross) -- side 2. Texaco's opera quiz, part 2: Downes, Ducloux, Levarie, Jay Harrison and Hans Busch ; Synopsis of act 3 (Cross) -- side 3. Act 1 through È scherzo ed è follia -- side 4. act 1, conclusion ; Act 2, scene 1 -- side 5. Act 2, scene 2 -- side 6. Act 3 ; Closing remarks (Cross).

Call Number

*LTCM 172 (F)

OCLC

NYPG85-R459

Author

Verdi, Giuseppe, 1813-1901.

Title

Un ballo in maschera : radio broadcast, 1963-01-12 [sound recording] : opera in three acts / Giuseppe Verdi ; libretto by Antonio Somma, after Scribe's play, Gustave III, or Le bal masque.

Playing Time

010530 021850

Series

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; broadcast of Jan. 12, 1963

Performer

Richard Tucker (Gustav) ; Birgit Nilsson (Amelia) ; Robert Merrill (Anckarström) ; Mattiwilda Dobbs (Oscar) ; Jean Madeira (Ulrica) ; Bonaldo Giaiotti (De Horn) ; John Macurdy (Warting) ; Roald Reitan (Cristiano) ; Andrea Velis (Chief Justice) ; Robert Nagy (servant) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; Nello Santi, conductor ; Milton Cross, broadcast announcer.

Indexed In:

Opera news, v. 27, no. 10 (Jan. 12, 1963).

Event

Originally recorded in the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Jan. 12, 1963.

Original Version

Re-recorded at NYPL in Sep. 1985, from borrowed masters (4 sound tape reels : 7 1/2 ips, 1 track, mono. ; 10 in.).

Added Author

Somma, Antonio, 1809-1864. Librettist

Scribe, Eugène, 1791-1861. Gustave III.

Tucker, Richard, 1913-1975. Performer

Nilsson, Birgit. Performer

Merrill, Robert, 1917-2004, singer.

Dobbs, Mattiwilda. Performer

Madeira, Jean. Performer

Giaiotti, Bonaldo. Performer

Macurdy, John. Performer

Reitan, Roald. Performer

Velis, Andrea, 1932-1994. Performer

Nagy, Robert, 1929-2008, singer.

Santi, Nello. Conductor

Cross, Milton, 1897-1975. Commentator

Lawrence, Robert, 1912-1981, commentator.

Ducloux, Walter. Commentator

Levarie, Siegmund, 1914-2010, commentator.

Downes, Edward, 1911-2001, commentator.

Harrison, Jay. Commentator

Busch, Hans, 1914-1996, 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

*LTCM 172 (F) \(Production notes in listening room.)

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