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Queen of spades opera in three acts

Title: Queen of spades [sound recording] : opera in three acts / Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky ; libretto by Modeste Tchaikovsky, based on Pushkin; English translation by Boris Goldovsky.
Author: Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilich, 1840-1893.

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Description

on 5 sides of 3 sound cassettes (195 min.) : analog, mono., Dolby-B processed.

Series Statement

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of 1966-01-15 (Jan. 15, 1966)]

Uniform Title

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

Alternative Title

Pikova︠i︡a dama.

Subjects

Genre/Form

Live sound recordings.

Note

Title from house program ; series title from Opera news.
Durations: 1:08:40 (synopses and features) ; 2:06:40 (opera).
With production notes and official cast list (6 p.)

Indexed In (note)

Opera news

Event (note)

Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Jan. 15, 1966.

Language (note)

Sung in English.

Contents

side 1. Introduction and synopsis of act 1 (Milton Cross) ; Opera news on the air: Boris Goldovsky discusses Queen of spades ; Synopsis of act 2 (Cross) -- side 2. Texaco's opera quiz (Edward Downes Jan Behr, Max de Schauensee, Richard Mohr and Charles Riecker) ; Synopsis of act 3 -- side 3. Act 1 -- side 4. Act 2 -- side 5. Act 3 ; Closing remarks (Cross).

Call Number

*LTCM 232 (F)

OCLC

NYPG87-R7

Author

Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilich, 1840-1893.

Title

Queen of spades [sound recording] : opera in three acts / Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky ; libretto by Modeste Tchaikovsky, based on Pushkin; English translation by Boris Goldovsky.

Playing Time

010840 020640

Series

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of 1966-01-15 (Jan. 15, 1966)]

Performer

Jean Madeira (Countess) ; Teresa Stratas (Lisa) ; James McCracken (Gherman) ; Rosalind Elias (Pauline, Daphnis) ; Walter Cassel (Count Tomsky) ; William Walker (Prince Yeletsky) ; Paul Franke (Chekalinsky) ; Lorenzo Alvary (Surin) ; Gabor Carelli (Chaplitsky) ; Louis Sgarro (Narumov) ; Gene Boucher (Master of Ceremonies) ; Loretta Di Franco (Chloe) ; Carlotta Ordassy (Masha) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; Thomas Schippers, conductor ; Milton Cross, program host.

Original Version

Re-recorded at NYPL in Aug. 1986, from masters lent by the Metropolitan Opera (4 sound tape reels : 7 1/2 ips, 1 track, mono. ; 10 in.)

Indexed In:

Opera news, v. 30, no. 11 (Jan. 15, 1966).

Event

Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Jan. 15, 1966.

Language

Sung in English.

Added Author

Goldovsky, Boris Translator. Commentator

Pushkin, Aleksandr Sergeevich, 1799-1837. Pikova︠i︡a dama.

Madeira, Jean. Performer

Stratas, Teresa. Performer

McCracken, James, 1926- Performer

Elias, Rosalind. Performer

Cassel, Walter. Performer

Walker, William, 1931- Performer

Franke, Paul, 1917-2011. Performer

Alvary, Lorenzo, 1909- Performer

Carelli, Gabor. Performer

Sgarro, Louis, 1920-1985. Performer

Boucher, Gene. Performer

Di Franco, Loretta. Performer

Ordassy, Carlotta. Performer

Schippers, Thomas. Conductor

Cross, Milton, 1897-1975. Commentator

Downes, Edward, 1911- Commentator

Behr, Jan. Commentator

De Schauensee, Max. Commentator

Mohr, Richard. Commentator

Riecker, Charles. Commentator

Chaĭkovskiĭ, Modest, 1850-1916.

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 232 (F) (Production notes in listening room.)

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