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Falstaff : opera in three acts

Title: Falstaff : radio broadcast, 1972-04-01 [sound recording] : opera in three acts / Giuseppe Verdi ; libretto by Arrigo Boïto.
Author: Verdi, Giuseppe, 1813-1901.

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Not available - Please for assistance.	Audio	Use in library	*LTCM 49 (F) [Notes]	Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.	Audio	Use in library	*LDC 42486 [CD]	Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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Description

4 sound discs (in 1 container) : digital, stereo.; 4 3/4 in.

Donor/Sponsor

Gift of the Metropolitan Opera.

Series Statement

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Apr. 1, 1972\720401\]

Uniform Title

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

Subjects

Note

Sung in Italian.
Title from house program ; series title from Opera news.
Compact disc.
Durations: 2:05:34 (opera) ; 1:11:45 (synopses and features).
Production notes and official cast list (5 p.) on file under classmark: *LTCM 49 (F).

Indexed In (note)

Opera news,

Event (note)

Originally recorded in the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Apr. 1, 1972.

Source (note)

Metropolitan Opera ;

Contents

CD 1. Introduction and synopsis of Act 1 (Milton Cross) ; Act 1 -- CD 2. Act 2 -- CD 3. Act 3 ; Closing remarks (Cross) -- CD 4. Opera news on the air: Boris Goldovsky gives a musical and dramatic analysis of Falstaff ; Synopsis of Act 2 (Cross) ; Texaco's opera quiz (Edward Downes questions Alberta Masiello, Osie Hawkins, Paul Hume, and Robert Lawrence) ; Synopsis of Act 3 (Cross).

Call Number

*LDC 42486

OCLC

31796574

Author

Verdi, Giuseppe, 1813-1901.

Title

Falstaff : radio broadcast, 1972-04-01 [sound recording] : opera in three acts / Giuseppe Verdi ; libretto by Arrigo Boïto.

Playing Time

020534 011145

Series

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Apr. 1, 1972\720401\]

Performer

Tito Gobbi (Sir John Falstaff) ; Ranata Tebaldi (Mrs. Alice Ford) ; Regina Resnik (Mrs. Quickly) ; Luigi Alva (Fenton) ; Kostas Paskalis (Ford) ; Roberta Peters (Nannetta) ; Joann Grillo (Mrs. Meg Page) ; Paul Franke (Dr. Cajus) ; Andrea Velis (Bardolfo) ; Richard Best (Pistola) ; Rae Calitri (mistress of the inn) ; Thomas Powell (innkeeper) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; Chrostoph von Dohnanyi, conductor ; Milton Cross, broadcast announcer.

Indexed In:

Opera news, v. 36, no. 19 (Apr. 1, 1972).

Event

Originally recorded in the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Apr. 1, 1972.

Original Version

Cassette tape copy re-recorded at NYPL, May, 1984, from borrowed copies (3 sound tape reels : 7 1/2 ips, 2 track, stereo. ; 10 in.) of the original recording, on file under classmark: *LTCM 49 (F).

Added Author

Boito, Arrigo, 1842-1918. Librettist

Gobbi, Tito. Performer

Tebaldi, Renata. Performer

Resnik, Regina, 1922-2013. Performer

Alva, Luigi. Performer

Paskalis, Kostas. Performer

Peters, Roberta, 1930-2017. Performer

Grillo, Joann. Performer

Franke, Paul, 1917-2011. Performer

Velis, Andrea, 1932-1994. Performer

Best, Richard, 1935- Performer

Calitri, Rae. Performer

Powell, Thomas, 1919- Performer

Dohnányi, Christoph von. Conductor

Cross, Milton, 1897-1975. Commentator

Goldovsky, Boris. Commentator

Downes, Edward, 1911-2001. Commentator

Masiello, Alberta. Commentator

Hawkins, Osie. Commentator

Hume, Paul, 1915-2001. Commentator

Lawrence, Robert, 1912- Commentator

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

Added Title

Opera news on the air (Radio program)

Texaco's opera quiz (Radio program)

Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (Radio program)

Gift of the Metropolitan Opera.

Metropolitan Opera Radio Broadcast collection.

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