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Otello opera in four acts

Title: Otello [sound recording] : opera in four acts / Giuseppe Verdi ; libretto by Arrigo Boïto.
Author: Verdi, Giuseppe, 1813-1901.

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Description

3 sound cassettes (237 min.) : stereo., Dolby-B processed.

Series Statement

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of \Apr. 8, 1972

Uniform Title

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

Alternative Title

Otello

Subjects

Note

Title from house program ; series title from Opera news.
Durations: 2:26:51 (opera) ; 1:30:06 (synopses and features).
Production notes and official cast list (6 p.) on file in the Rodgers and Hammerstein listening room.

Indexed In (note)

Opera news

Event (note)

Originally recorded in the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Apr. 8, 1972.

Language (note)

Sung in Italian.

Contents

side 1. Introduction and synopsis of act 1 (Milton Cross) ; Opera news on the air: Edward Downes interviews Franco Zeffirelli ; Synopsis of act 2 (Cross) ; Texaco's opera quiz (Edward Downes, John Coveney, George Jellinek, Terry McEwen, and Richard Mohr) -- side 2. Opera quiz, conclusion ; Synopsis of act 3 (Cross) ; Boris Goldovsky interviews Metropolitan Opera Orchestra string players Raymond Gniewek, Gene Campione, John A. Di Janni, Jascha Silberstein, and George André ; Synopsis of act 4 (Cross) -- side 3. Act 1 -- side 4. Act 2 -- side 5. Act 3 -- side 6. Act 4 ; Closing remarks (Cross).

Call Number

*LTCM 50 (F)

OCLC

NYPG84-R718

Author

Verdi, Giuseppe, 1813-1901.

Title

Otello [sound recording] : opera in four acts / Giuseppe Verdi ; libretto by Arrigo Boïto.

Playing Time

022651 013006

Series

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of \Apr. 8, 1972

Performer

James McCracken (Otello) ; Sherrill Milnes (Iago) ; Teresa Zylis-Gara (Desdemona) ; Enrico Di Giuseppe (Cassio) ; Shirley Love (Emilia) ; Andrea Velis (Roderigo) ; Paul Plishka (Lodovico) ; Robert Goodloe (Montano) ; Raymond Gibbs (herald) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; Karl Böhm, conductor ; Milton Cross, broadcast announcer.

Original Version

Re-recorded at NYPL, Feb., 1984, from borrowed copies (4 sound tape reels : 7 1/2 ips, 2 track, stereo. ; 10 in.) of the original recording.

Indexed In:

Opera news, v. 36, no. 20 (Apr. 8, 1972).

Event

Originally recorded in the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Apr. 8, 1972.

Language

Sung in Italian.

Added Author

Boito, Arrigo, 1842-1918. Librettist

McCracken, James, 1926- Performer

Milnes, Sherrill. Performer

Zylis-Gara, Teresa. Performer

Di Giuseppe, Enrico, 1938- Performer

Love, Shirley. Performer

Velis, Andrea, 1932-1994. Performer

Plishka, Paul, 1941- Performer

Goodloe, Robert. Performer

Gibbs, Raymond. Performer

Böhm, Karl, 1894-1981. Conductor

Cross, Milton, 1897-1975. Commentator

Zeffirelli, Franco. Commentator

Coveney, John. Commentator

Jellinek, George, 1919- Commentator

McEwen, Terry. Commentator

Mohr, Richard. Commentator

Downes, Edward, 1911- Commentator

Goldovosky, Boris. Commentator

Gniewek, Raymond, 1931- Commentator

Campione, Gene. Commentator

Di Janni, John A. Commentator

Silberstein, Jascha. Commentator

André, George. 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)

Research Call Number

*LTCM 50 (F) (Production notes filed in listening room.)

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