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La bohème : opera in four acts

Title: La bohème : radio broadcast, 1985-02-09 [sound recording] : opera in four acts / music by Giacomo Puccini ; libretto by Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica, after the book by Murger.
Author: Puccini, Giacomo, 1858-1924.

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Description

3 sound cassettes (175 min.) : stereo, Dolby-B processed.

Series Statement

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Feb. 9, 1985]

Uniform Title

Bohème
Texaco's opera quiz (Radio program)
Singers' roundtable (Radio program)
Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (Radio program)

Alternative Title

Bohème

Subjects

Genre/Form

Live sound recordings.

Note

Sung in Italian.
Title from house program ; series title from Opera news.
Durations: 0:51:54 (synopses and features) ; 2:03:13 (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, Feb. 9, 1985.

Reproduction (note)

Service copy (3 sound cassettes : stereo, Dolby-B processed) available in: *LTCM 465 (F)

Contents

side 1. Introduction and synopsis of act 1 (Peter Allen) ; Singer's round table (Richard Mohr, host, with Sherrill Milnes and Samuel Ramey) ; Synopsis of act 3 (Allen) ; Texaco's opera quiz (Edward Downes, host, with Susan Gould, William Livingstone and Peter Bonelli) -- side 2. Opera quiz concluded ; Synopsis of act 4 (Allen) -- side 3. Act 1 -- side 4. Act 2 -- side 5. Act 3 -- side 6. Act 4 ; Closing remarks (Allen).

Call Number

*LTCM 465 (f)

OCLC

NYPG91-R198

Author

Puccini, Giacomo, 1858-1924.

Title

La bohème : radio broadcast, 1985-02-09 [sound recording] : opera in four acts / music by Giacomo Puccini ; libretto by Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica, after the book by Murger.

Playing Time

005154 020313

Series

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Feb. 9, 1985]

Performer

Brian Schexnayder (Marcello) ; Luis Lima (Rodolfo) ; John Cheek (Colline) ; Vernon Hartman (Schaunard) ; Renato Capecchi (Benoit, Alcindoro) ; Catherine Malfitano (Mimi) ; Dale Caldwell (Parpignol) ; Marilyn Zschau (Musetta) ; Merle Schmidt (Customhouse Sergeant) ; Herman Marcus (Customhouse Officer) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; Plácido Domingo, conductor ; Peter Allen, broadcast announcer.

Indexed In:

Opera news, v. 49, no. 10 (Feb. 2, 1985).

Event

Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Feb. 9, 1985.

Original Version

Re-recorded at NYPL in Mar. 1991, from borrowed masters (3 sound tape reels : 7 1/2 ips, 2 track, stereo ; 10 in.) lent by the Metropolitan Opera.

Reproduction

Service copy (3 sound cassettes : stereo, Dolby-B processed) available in: *LTCM 465 (F)

Added Author

Giacosa, Giuseppe, 1847-1906. Librettist

Ilica, Luigi, 1857-1919. Librettist

Murger, Henri, 1822-1861. Scènes de la vie de Bohème.

Schexnayder, Brian. Performer

Lima, Luis. Performer

Cheek, John, 1948- Performer

Hartman, Vernon. Performer

Capecchi, Renato. Performer

Malfitano, Catherine. Performer

Caldwell, Dale. Performer

Zschau, Marilyn. Performer

Schmidt, Merle. Performer

Marcus, Herman. Performer

Domingo, Plácido, 1941- Conductor

Allen, Peter, 1920-2016. Commentator

Downes, Edward, 1911- Commentator

Gould, Susan. Commentator

Livingstone, William. Commentator

Bonelli, Peter. Commentator

Mohr, Richard. Commentator

Milnes, Sherrill. Commentator

Ramey, Samuel. Commentator

Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.)

Added Title

Texaco's opera quiz (Radio program)

Singers' roundtable (Radio program)

Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (Radio program)

Research Call Number

*LTCM 465 (f) \(Production notes in listening room.)

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