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Aida : opera in four acts

Title: Aida : radio broadcast, 1970-01-03 [sound recording] : opera in four acts / Giuseppe Verdi ; libretto by A. Ghislanzoni.
Author: Verdi, Giuseppe, 1813-1901.

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Description

3 sound cassettes (227 min.) : analog, mono., Dolby-B processed.

Series Statement

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Jan. 3, 1970]

Uniform Title

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

Alternative Title

Aïda
Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (Radio program)

Subjects

Genre/Form

Live sound recordings.

Note

Sung in Italian.
Title from house program ; series title from Opera news.
Durations: 1:14:30 (synopses and features) ; 2:32:10 (opera).
Production notes and official cast list (5 p.) on file in the Rodgers and Hammerstein listening room.

Indexed In (note)

Opera news

Event (note)

Originally broadcast live from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Jan. 3, 1970.

Contents

side 1. Introduction and synopsis of act 1 (Milton Cross) ; Opera news on the air / Biographies in music, part 1: Francis Robinson recalls the firest Texaco-sponsored season, 1940-1941 ; Synopsis of act 2 (Cross) ; Texaco's opera quiz, with quizmaster Edward Downes and panelists John Coveney, Max de Schauensee, Boris Goldovsky and Paul Hume -- side 2. Synopsis of act 3 (Cross) ; Biographies in music, part 2 ; Synopsis of act 4 (Cross) side 3. Act 1 -- side 4. Act 2 -- side 5. Act 3 -- sdie 6. Act 4 ; Closing remarks (Cross).

Call Number

*LTCM 313 (F)

OCLC

NYPG88-R180

Author

Verdi, Giuseppe, 1813-1901.

Title

Aida : radio broadcast, 1970-01-03 [sound recording] : opera in four acts / Giuseppe Verdi ; libretto by A. Ghislanzoni.

Playing Time

011430 023210

Series

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Jan. 3, 1970]

Performer

Leontyne Price, (Aida) ; Jess Thomas (Radames) ; Irene Dalis (Amneris) ; Robert Merrill (Amonasro) ; Raymond Michalski (King) ; John Macurdy (Ramfis) ; Carlotta Ordassy (Priestess) ; Rod MacWherter (Messenger) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; Francesco Molinari-Pradelli, conductor ; Milton Cross, broadcast announcer.

Indexed In:

Opera news, v. ̲̲, no. ̲̲ (̲̲̲. ̲, 19̲̲).

Event

Originally broadcast live from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Jan. 3, 1970.

Original Version

Re-recorded at NYPL in Jun. 1988, from masters borrowed from the Metropolitan Opera (4 sound tape reels : 7 1/2 ips, 1 track, mono. ; 10 in.).

Added Author

Ghislanzoni, Antonio, 1824-1893. Librettist

Price, Leontyne. Performer

Thomas, Jess. Performer

Dalis, Irene. Performer

Merrill, Robert, 1917-2004 Performer

Michalski, Raymond. Performer

Macurdy, John. Performer

Ordassy, Carlotta. Performer

MacWherter, Rod. Performer

Molinari-Pradelli, Francesco. Conductor

Cross, Milton, 1897-1975. Commentator

Robinson, Francis, 1910- Commentator

Downes, Edward, 1911- Commentator

Coveney, John. Commentator

De Schauensee, Max. Commentator

Goldovsky, Boris. Commentator

Hume, Paul, 1915- Commentator

Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.)

Added Title

Opera news on the air (Radio program)

Biographies in music (Radio program)

Texaco's opera quiz (Radio program)

Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (Radio program)

Research Call Number

*LTCM 313 (F) Production notes in listening room.

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