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Andrea Chénier : opera in four acts

Title: Andrea Chénier : radio broadcast, 1977-03-26 [sound recording] : opera in four acts / music by Umberto Giordano ; libretto by Luigi Illica.
Author: Giordano, Umberto, 1867-1948

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Description

3 sound cassettes : analog, stereo., Dolby-B processsed.

Series Statement

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of] Mar. 26, 1977

Uniform Title

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

Subject

Operas

Genre/Form

Live sound recordings.

Note

Title from house program.
Production notes and official cast list (6 p.) on file.

Event (note)

Live broadcast frrom the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, March 26, 1977.

Language (note)

Sung in Italian.

Contents

side 1. Introduction and synopsis of Act 1 (Peter Allen) ; Opera news on the air (John Culshaw and reflections on Andrea Chénier) ; synopsis of Act 2 (Allen) ; Texaco's opera quiz (Edward Downes questions John Ardoin, Ivan Davis, William Livingstone, and William Weaver) -- side 2. Texaco's opera quiz (continued) ; synopsis of Act 3 (Allen) ; Musical chairs (Edward Downes, moderator, with Alberta Masiello, Paul Hume, and Richard Woitach) ; 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 820

OCLC

NYPG06-R39

Author

Giordano, Umberto, 1867-1948.

Title

Andrea Chénier : radio broadcast, 1977-03-26 [sound recording] : opera in four acts / music by Umberto Giordano ; libretto by Luigi Illica.

Series

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of] Mar. 26, 1977

Performer

Placido Domingo (Andrea Chénier) ; Martina Arroyo (Maddalena) ; Shirley Love (Countess di Coigny) ; Jean Kraft (La Bersi) ; Lili Chookasian (Madelon) ; Glen Bater (The Major-domo) ; Cornell MacNeil (Carlo Gérard) ; Gene Boucher (Fléville) ; Paul Franke (The Abbé) ; Fernando Corena (Mathieu) ; Andrea Velis (Incredible) ; Allan Monk (Roucher) ; Russell Christopher (Dumas) ; Richard Best (Fouquier-Tinville) ; Philip Booth (Schmidt) ; Metropolitan Opera Chorus and Orchestra ; James Levine, conductor ; Peter Allen, broadcast announcer.

Event

Live broadcast frrom the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, March 26, 1977.

Original Version

Cassette tape service copy re-recorded at NYPL in 1982, from borrowed masters (3 sound tape reels : 7 1/2 ips., 2 track, stereo. ; 10 in.) lent by the Metropolitan Opera.

Language

Sung in Italian.

Added Author

Illica, Luigi, 1857-1919. Librettist

Domingo, Plácido, 1941- singer.

Arroyo, Martina. Performer

Love, Shirley. Performer

Kraft, Jean. Performer

Chookasian, Lili. Performer

Bater, Glenn. Performer

MacNeil, Cornell, 1922-2011, singer.

Boucher, Gene. Performer

Franke, Paul, 1917-2011. Performer

Corena, Fernando. Performer

Velis, Andrea, 1932-1994. Performer

Monk, Allan. Performer

Christopher, Russell. Performer

Best, Richard, 1935-2022. Performer

Booth, Philip, 1942- Performer

Levine, James, 1943-2021. Conductor

Allen, Peter, 1920-2016, commentator.

Culshaw, John. Commentator

Downes, Edward, 1911-2001, commentator.

Ardoin, John. Commentator

Davis, Ivan. Commentator

Livingstone, William. Commentator

Weaver, William, 1923-2013, commentator.

Masiello, Alberta. Commentator

Hume, Paul, 1915-2001, commentator.

Woitach, Richard. Commentator

Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.)

Added Title

Opera news on the air (Radio program)

Texaco's opera quiz (Radio program)

Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (Radio program)

Research Call Number

*LTCM 820 Notes on file.

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