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Così fan tutte (Women are like that) opera in two acts

Title: Così fan tutte (Women are like that) [sound recording] : opera in two acts / music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ; libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte ; new english version by Ruth and Thomas P. Martin.
Author: Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791.

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Description

4 sound tape reels (197 min.) : analog, 7 1/2 ips, 2 track, mono.; 10 in.

Series Statement

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Jan. 12, 1952]

Uniform Title

Così fan tutte English
Opera news on the air (Radio program)
Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (Radio program)

Alternative Title

Così fan tutte
Metropolitan Opera Mailbox (Radio program)

Subjects

Genre/Form

Live sound recordings.

Note

Sung in English.
Title from house program ; series title from Opera news.
Durations: 0:33:16 (synopses and features) ; 2:44:06 (opera).
Production notes and official cast list (4 p.) on file in the Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound.

Indexed In (note)

Opera news

Event (note)

Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Jan. 12, 1952.

Reproduction (note)

Service copy (3 sound cassettes : analog, mono., Dolby-B processed) available in: *LTCM 355 (F)

Contents

side 1. Introduction and synopsis of act 1 (Milton Cross) ; Opera news on the air (Boris Goldovsky, host, with Risë Stevens) ; Metropolitan opera mailbox (Rudolf Bing, host) ; Synopsis of act 2 (Cross) -- side 2. [blank] -- side 3. Overture and act 1 through "Smanie implacabili" -- side 4. Act 1 concluded -- side 5. Act 2 through "Donne mie, la fate a tanti" -- side 6. Act 2 concluded ; Broadcast concluded.

Call Number

*LT-10 4904

OCLC

NYPG89-R210

Author

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791.

Title

Così fan tutte (Women are like that) [sound recording] : opera in two acts / music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ; libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte ; new english version by Ruth and Thomas P. Martin.

Playing Time

03316 24406

Series

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Jan. 12, 1952]

Performer

Eleanor Steber (Fiordiligi) ; Blanche Thebom (Dorabella) ; Patrice Munsel (Despina) ; Richard Tucker (Ferrando) ; Frank Guarrera (Guglielmo) ; John Brownlee (Don Alfonso) ; Alfred Lunt (A servant) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; Fritz Stiedry, conductor ; Milton Cross, broadcast announcer.

Indexed In:

Opera news, v. 16, no. 10 (Jan. 7, 1952).

Event

Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Jan. 12, 1952.

Original Version

Preservation tape, recorded at NYPL in May. 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 355 (F)

Added Author

Da Ponte, Lorenzo, 1749-1838. Librettist

Martin, Ruth Berenice Kelley, 1914- Librettist

Martin, Thomas Philipp, 1909- Librettist

Steber, Eleanor. Performer

Thebom, Blanche. Performer

Munsel, Patrice, 1925- Performer

Tucker, Richard, 1913-1975. Performer

Guarrera, Frank, 1924- Performer

Brownlee, John, 1901-1969. Performer

Lunt, Alfred. Performer

Stiedry, Fritz. Conductor

Cross, Milton, 1897-1975. Commentator

Goldovsky, Boris. Commentator

Stevens, Risë, 1913-2013. Commentator

Bing, Rudolf, 1902-1997. Commentator

Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.)

Added Title

Opera news on the air (Radio program)

Metropolitan Opera Mailbox (Radio program)

Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (Radio program)

Research Call Number

*LT-10 4904 Master tape. Request cassette service copy in *LTCM 355 (F).

*LTCM 355 (F) Cassette service copy; production notes on file. Master tape in *LT-10 4904.

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