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La traviata opera in four acts...

Title: La traviata [sound recording] : opera in four acts... / Giuseppe Verdi ; libretto by Francesco Maria Piave, founded on La dame aux camélias, novel and play by Alexandre Dumas, fils.
Author: Verdi, Giuseppe, 1813-1901.

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Description

3 sound cassettes (196 min.) : analog, mono., Dolby-B processed.

Series Statement

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of \Mar. 16, 1963\630316\]

Uniform Title

Traviata
Opera news on the air (Radio program).
Texaco's opera quiz (Radio program).
Biographies in music (Radio program).
Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (Radio program)

Alternative Title

Traviata

Subjects

Note

Sung in Italian.
Titles from Opera news.
Durations: 1:15:30 (synopses and features) ; 2:00:50 (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, Mar. 16, 1963.

Contents

side 1. Introduction and synopsis of act 1 (Milton Cross) ; Opera news on the air: Edward Downes interviews Franco Zeffirelli ; Synopsis of act 2 (Cross) ; Texaco's opera quiz: Downes, Winifred Short, Frank Merkling, Walter Ducloux and Walter Slezak -- side 2. Synopsis of act 3 (Cross) ; Biographies in music: Francis Robinson and Walter Slezak discuss Leo Slezak ; Synopsis of act 4 (Cross) -- side 3. Act 1 -- side 4. Act 2 -- side 5. Act 3 -- side 6. Act 4 ; Closing remarks (Cross).

Call Number

*LTCM 181 (F)

OCLC

NYPG85-R469

Author

Verdi, Giuseppe, 1813-1901.

Title

La traviata [sound recording] : opera in four acts... / Giuseppe Verdi ; libretto by Francesco Maria Piave, founded on La dame aux camélias, novel and play by Alexandre Dumas, fils.

Playing Time

011530 020050

Series

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of \Mar. 16, 1963\630316\]

Performer

Gabriella Tucci (Violetta) ; Barry Morell (Alfredo) ; Robert Merrill (Germont) ; Mary Ellen Pracht (Flora) ; Lynn Blair (Annina) ; Louis Sgarro (Doctor Grenvil) ; George Cehanovsky (Marquis d'Obigny) ; Roald Reitan (Baron Douphol) ; Gabor Carelli (Gastone) ; Charles Kuestner (Giuseppe) ; Peter Sliker (gardener) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; Fausto Cleva, conductor ; Milton Cross, broadcast announcer.

Indexed In:

Opera news, v. 27, no. 19 (Mar. 16, 1983).

Event

Originally recorded in the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Mar. 16, 1963.

Original Version

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

Added Author

Slezak, Leo, 1873-1946.

Piave, Francesco Maria, 1810-1876. Librettist

Dumas, Alexandre, 1824-1895. Dame aux camelias.

Tucci, Gabriella. Performer

Morell, Barry. Performer

Merrill, Robert, 1917-2004 Performer

Pracht, Mary Ellen. Performer

Blair, Lynn. Performer

Sgarro, Louis, 1920-1985. Performer

Cehanovsky, George, 1892-1986. Performer

Reitan, Roald. Performer

Carelli, Gabor. Performer

Kuestner, Charles. Performer

Sliker, Peter. Performer

Cleva, Fausto. Conductor

Cross, Milton, 1897-1975. Commentator

Downes, Edward, 1911- Commentator

Zeffirelli, Franco. Commentator

Short, Winifred. Commentator

Ducloux, Walter, 1913- Commentator

Merkling, Frank. Commentator

Slezak, Walter, 1902- Commentator

Robinson, Francis, 1910- 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 181 (F) \(Production notes in listening room.)

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