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La gioconda opera in four acts

Title: La gioconda [sound recording] : opera in four acts / music by Amilcare Ponchielli ; libretto by Arrigo Boito.
Author: Ponchielli, Amilcare, 1834-1886.

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Description

on 7 sides of 4 sound cassettes : analog, stereo., Dolby-B processed.

Series Statement

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of] Apr. 10, 1976.

Uniform Title

Gioconda
Opera news on the air (Radio program)
Singers' roundtable (Radio program)
Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (Radio program)

Alternative Title

Gioconda

Subjects

Genre/Form

Live sound recordings.

Note

Title from house program.
Production notes and official cast list (7 p.) on file.

Event (note)

Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, April 10, 1976.

Language (note)

Sung in Italian.

Contents

side 1. Introduction and synopsis of Act 1 (Peter Allen) ; Opera news on the air (Andrew Porter on singers: high, low, and in between) ; synopsis of Act 2 (Allen) ; Singers' roundtable (Paul Hume, host, with Tatiana Troyanos, James McCracken, and John Reardon) -- side 2. Singers' roundtable, part 2 ; synopsis of Act 3 (Allen) ; Metropolitan Opera Madrigal Singers (Alma Jean Smith, Shirley Love, Robert Schmorr, Gene Boucher, Nico Castel, and Richard Best) ; synopsis of Act 4 (Allen) -- side 3. Act 1, part 1 -- side 4. Act 1, part 2 -- side 5. Act 2 -- side 6. Act 3 -- side 7. Act 4 ; Closing remarks (Allen).

Call Number

*LTCM 766

OCLC

NYPG06-R0

Author

Ponchielli, Amilcare, 1834-1886.

Title

La gioconda [sound recording] : opera in four acts / music by Amilcare Ponchielli ; libretto by Arrigo Boito.

Series

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of] Apr. 10, 1976.

Performer

Matteo Manuguerra (Barnaba) ; Martina Arroyto (Gioconda) ; Lili Chookasian (La Cieca) ; Gene Boucher (Zuane) ; Robert Schmorr (Isèpo) ; Misha Raitzin (Enzo Grimaldi) ; Nell Rankin (Laura) ; ?James Morris (Alvise) ; Edmond Karlsrud (A monk) ; Nicola Barbusci (A steersman) ; Paul De Paola (First singer) ; William Mellow (Second singer) ; Metropolitan Opera Chorus and Orchestra ; Giuseppe Patané, conductor ; Peter Allen, broadcast announcer.

Event

Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, April 10, 1976.

Original Version

Cassette tape service copy re-recorded at NYPL in 1982, from borrowed masters (4 sound tape reels : 7 1/2 ips., 2 track, stereo. ; 10 in.) lent by the Metropolitan Opera.

Language

Sung in Italian.

Added Author

Boito, Arrigo, 1842-1918. Librettist

Manuguerra, Matteo. Performer

Arroyo, Martina. Performer

Chookasian, Lili. Performer

Boucher, Gene. Performer

Schmorr, Robert. Performer

Raĭ︠t︡sin, Misha, 1930-1990. Performer

Rankin, Nell. Performer

Morris, James, 1947- Performer

Karlsrud, Edmond. Performer

Barbusci, Nicola. Performer

Paola, Paul de. Performer

Mellow, William. Performer

Patanè, Giuseppe, 1932- Conductor

Allen, Peter, 1920-2016. Commentator

Porter, Andrew, 1928-2015. Commentator

Hume, Paul, 1915- Commentator

Troyanos, Tatiana. Commentator

McCracken, James, 1926- Commentator

Reardon, John, 1930-1988. Commentator

Smith, Alma Jean. Performer

Love, Shirley. Performer

Castel, Nico. Performer

Best, Richard, 1935- Performer

Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.)

Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.). Madrigal Singers.

Added Title

Opera news on the air (Radio program)

Singers' roundtable (Radio program)

Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (Radio program)

Research Call Number

*LTCM 766 Notes on file.

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