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Boris Godunov : opera in four acts, based on Pushkin

Title: Boris Godunov : radio broadcast, 1954-02-27 [sound recording] : opera in four acts, based on Pushkin / music by M.P. Mussorgsky ; english text by John Gutman ; orchestral score revised and newly edited by Karol Rathaus.
Author: Musorgskiĭ, Modest Petrivich, 1839-1881.

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Description

4 sound tape reels (238 min.) : analog, 7 1/2 ips, 2 track, mono.; 10 in.

Series Statement

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Feb. 27, 1954]

Uniform Title

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

Alternative Title

Boris Godunov.

Subjects

Genre/Form

Live sound recordings.

Note

Sung in English.
Title from house program ; series title from Opera news.
Durations: 0:32:14 (synopses and features) ; 3:25:56 (opera).
Production notes and official cast list (5 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, Feb. 27, 1954.

Reproduction (note)

Service copy (4 sound cassettes : analog, mono., Dolby-B processed) available in: *LTCM 400 (F)

Contents

side 1. Introduction and synopsis of act 1 (Milton Cross) ; Opera news on the air (Boris Goldovsky, host, with Herbert Weinstock) ; Synopsis of act 2 (Cross) ; Texaco's opera quiz (Robert Lawrence, host, with Max Rudolf, Robert Bagar and Walter Ducloux) ; Synopsis of act 3 (Cross) -- side 2. [blank] -- side 3. Introduction ; Act 1 through Scene 3 -- side 4. Act 1 concluded -- side 5. Act 2 -- side 6. Act 3 -- side 7. Act 4 through Scene 2 -- side 8. Act 4 concluded ; Closing remarks (Cross).

Call Number

*LT-10 5550

OCLC

NYPG90-R369

Author

Musorgskiĭ, Modest Petrivich, 1839-1881.

Title

Boris Godunov : radio broadcast, 1954-02-27 [sound recording] : opera in four acts, based on Pushkin / music by M.P. Mussorgsky ; english text by John Gutman ; orchestral score revised and newly edited by Karol Rathaus.

Playing Time

3214 32556

Series

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Feb. 27, 1954]

Performer

Cesare Siepi (Boris Godunov) ; Mildred Miller (Feodyor) ; Genevieve Warner (Xenia) ; Jean Madeira (Xenia's nurse) ; Charles Kullman (Prince Shuiski) ; Arthur Budney (Shchelkalov) ; Norman Scott (Pimen) ; Giulio Gari (Grigori) ; Blanche Thebom (Marina) ; Clifford Harvuot (Rangoni) ; Salvatore Baccaloni (Varlaam) ; Thomas Hayward (Missail) ; Martha Lipton (The innkeeper) ; Osie Hawkins (An officer) ; Paul Franke (The simpleton) ; Lawrence Davidson (Nikitich) ; Gabor Carelli (A boyar) ; Thelma Votipka (A woman) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; Fritz Stiedry, conductor ; Milton Cross, broadcast announcer.

Indexed In:

Opera news, v. 18, no. 16 (Feb. 22, 1954).

Event

Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Feb. 27, 1954.

Original Version

Preservation tape, recorded at NYPL in Mar. 1990, from aluminum-based acetates (8 sound discs : analog, 33 1/3 rpm, mono. ; 16 in.) lent by the Metropolitan Opera.

Reproduction

Service copy (4 sound cassettes : analog, mono., Dolby-B processed) available in: *LTCM 400 (F)

Added Author

Gutman, John. Translator

Rathaus, Karol, 1895-1954. Arranger

Pushkin, Aleksandr Sergeevich, 1799-1837. Boris godunov.

Siepi, Cesare. Performer

Miller, Mildred. Performer

Warner, Genevieve. Performer

Madeira, Jean. Performer

Kullman, Charles, 1903-1983. Performer

Budney, Arthur. Performer

Scott, Norman, 1921-1968 Performer

Gari, Giulio. Performer

Thebom, Blanche. Performer

Harvuot, Clifford, 1912-1990. Performer

Baccaloni, Salvatore, 1900-1969. Performer

Hayward, Thomas, 1917-1995, singer.

Lipton, Martha. Performer

Hawkins, Osie. Performer

Franke, Paul, 1917-2011. Performer

Davidson, Lawrence. Performer

Carelli, Gabor. Performer

Votipka, Thelma. Performer

Stiedry, Fritz. Conductor

Cross, Milton, 1897-1975. Commentator

Goldovsky, Boris. Commentator

Weinstock, Herbert. Commentator

Lawrence, Robert, 1912-1981, commentator.

Rudolf, Max, 1902-1995. Commentator

Bagar, Robert. Commentator

Ducloux, Walter. Commentator

Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.)

Herbert Weinstock Memorial Fund.

Added Title

Opera news on the air (Radio program)

Texaco's opera quiz (Radio program)

Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (Radio program)

Research Call Number

*LT-10 5550 Master tape. Request cassette service copy in *LTCM 400 (F).

*LTCM 400 (F) Cassette service copy; production notes on file. Master tape in *LT-10 5550.

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