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The gambler : opera in four acts

Title: The gambler : radio broadcast, 2008-04-12 [sound recording] : opera in four acts / music by Sergei Prokofiev ; libretto by the composer, based on Fyodor Dostoyevsky's novella.
Author: Prokofiev, Sergey, 1891-1953.
Publication: [New York, NY] : Metropolitan Opera, [2008]

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Description

3 sound discs : digital, stereo.; 4 3/4 in.

Series Statement

Metropolitan Opera Saturday matinée broadcasts
Toll Brothers--Metropolitan Opera International Radio Network ; [broadcast of] Apr. 12, 2008

Uniform Title

Igrok
Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (Radio program)
Metropolitan Opera Saturday matinée broadcasts.
Toll Brothers--Metropolitan Opera International Radio Network ; [broadcast of] Apr. 12, 2008.

Alternative Title

Igrok

Subjects

Genre/Form

Live sound recordings.

Note

Compact discs.
House program on file in Music Division.

Indexed In (note)

Opera news

Event (note)

Broadcast live from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Apr. 12, 2008.

Source (note)

Metropolitan Opera;

Language (note)

Sung in Russian.

Contents

CD 1. Introduction (Margaret Juntwait discusses Prokofiev's music) ; synopsis of acts 1-2 (Juntwait and Ira Siff) ; Acts 1-2 ; Met Cameo (Naomi Lewin interviews head tailor, Bryant Hoven) ; Loren Toolajian interviews Olga Guryakova ; Mary Jo Heath and Harlow Robinson discuss Dostoyevsky's story and Prokofiev's opera ; Loren Toolajian interviews Diana Damrau [beginnning] -- CD 2. Loren Toolajian interviews Diana Damrau [complete] ; Juntwait interviews conductor Dante Anzolini ; Met Cameo (Naomi Lewin interviews Anthony Laciura) ; synopsis of acts 3-4 (Juntwait and Siff) ; Acts 3-4 [beginnning] -- CD 3. Acts 3-4 [conclusion] ; closing remarks (Juntwait and Siff).

Call Number

*LDC 46573

OCLC

313761315

Author

Prokofiev, Sergey, 1891-1953.

Title

The gambler : radio broadcast, 2008-04-12 [sound recording] : opera in four acts / music by Sergei Prokofiev ; libretto by the composer, based on Fyodor Dostoyevsky's novella.

Imprint

[New York, NY] : Metropolitan Opera, [2008]

Series

Metropolitan Opera Saturday matinée broadcasts

Toll Brothers--Metropolitan Opera International Radio Network ; [broadcast of] Apr. 12, 2008

Metropolitan Opera Saturday matinée broadcasts.

Toll Brothers--Metropolitan Opera International Radio Network ; [broadcast of] Apr. 12, 2008.

Performer

Larissa Diadkova (Grammy) ; Sergei Aleksashkin (General) ; Olga Guryakova (Polina) ; Vladimir Galouzine (Alexei) ; Nikolai Gassiev (Marquis) ; John Hancock (Mr. Astley) ; Olga Savova (Mme. Blanche) ; John Easterlin (Prince Nilsky) ; James Courtney (Baron Würmerhelm) ; Diego Matamoros (Potapich) ; Paul Plishka (Director) ; Ronald Naldi, Jeremy Little (Croupiers) ; LeRoy Lehr (Fat Englishman) ; Michael Devlin (Tall Englishman) ; Katherine Whyte (Garish lady) ; Yvonne Gonzales Redman (Pale lady) ; Edyta Kulczak (Lady Comme ci, Comme ça) ; Jane Shaulis (Venerable lady) ; Kathryn Day (Suspicious old lady) ; Vladimir Grishko (Reckless gambler) ; Bernard Fitch (Sickly gambler) ; Anthony Laciura (Hunchbank gambler) ; David Won (Unlucky gambler) ; Philip Cokorinos (Old gambler) ; Michael Forest, Iosef Shalamayev, Kirk Eichelberger, Philip Horst, Kurt Link, Ricardo Lugo (Six gamblers) ; Metropolitan Opera Chorus and Orchestra ; Valery Gergiev, conductor ; Margaret Juntwait, broadcast announcer.

Event

Broadcast live from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Apr. 12, 2008.

Indexed In:

Opera news, v. 72, no. 10 (Apr. 2008).

Language

Sung in Russian.

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Added Author

D︠i︡adʹkova, Larisa. Performer

Aleksashkin, Sergeĭ, 1952- Performer

Guri︠a︡kova, Olʹga, 1971- Performer. Interviewee

Galuzin, Vladimir, 1957- Performer

Gassiev, Nikolaĭ, 1950- Performer

Hancock, John, 1968- Performer

Savova, Olga. Performer

Easterlin, John. Performer

Courtney, James, 1946- performer

Matamoros, Diego. Performer

Plishka, Paul, 1941- Performer

Naldi, Ronald. Performer

Little, Jeremy. Performer

Lehr, LeRoy. Performer

Devlin, Michael, 1942- Performer

Whyte, Katherine. Performer

Gonzales, Yvonne. Performer

Kulczak, Edyta. Performer

Shaulis, Jane. Performer

Day, Kathryn. Performer

Grishko, Volodymyr. Performer

Fitch, Bernard. Performer

Laciura, Anthony. Performer. Interviewee

Won, David. Performer

Cokorinos, Philip. Performer

Forest, Michael. Performer

Shalamayev, Iosef. Performer

Eichelberger, Kirk. Performer

Horst, Philip Mark. Performer

Link, Kurt. Performer

Lugo, Ricardo. Performer

Gergiev, Valeriĭ, 1953- Conductor

Juntwait, Margaret. Commentator

Siff, Ira. Commentator

Lewin, Naomi. Interviewer

Hoven, Bryant. Interviewee

Toolajian, Loren. Interviewer

Heath, Mary Joanne Renner, 1954- Commentator

Robinson, Harlow. Commentator

Damrau, Diana. Interviewee

Anzolini, Dante. Interviewee

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821-1881. Igrok.

Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.) Performer

Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.) Donor NN-RHA

Added Title

Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (Radio program)

Research Call Number

*LDC 46573

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