Title

Adriana Lecouvreur : radio broadcast, 1969-04-19 [sound recording] : opera in four acts in Italian / music by Francesco Cliea ; libretto by Arturo Colautti, after the drama by Eugène Scribe and Ernest Legouvé.

Author

Cilèa, Francesco, 1866-1950.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Baldwin, Marcia.
• Bing, Rudolf, 1902-1997.
• Boky, Colette.
• Cleva, Fausto.
• Colautti, Arturo, 1851-1914.
• Colzani, Anselmo.
• Corelli, Franco.
• Cross, Milton, 1897-1975.
• Dalis, Irene.
• Downes, Edward, 1911-
• Franke, Paul, 1917-2011.
• Ghazal, Edward.
• Legouvé, Ernest, 1807-1903.
• Meredith, Morley.
• Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.)
• Metropolitan Opera Radio Broadcast collection.
• Plishka, Paul, 1941-
• Randall, Tony.
• Ritchard, Cyril, 1897-1977.
• Robinson, Francis, 1910-
• Schmorr, Robert.
• Scribe, Eugène, 1791-1861.
• Skinner, Cornelia Otis, 1901-1979.
• Tebaldi, Renata.
• Wood, Peggy, 1892-1978.

Description

3 sound cassettes (224 min.) : analog, mono., Dolby-B processed.

Series Statement

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Apr. 19, 1969]

Uniform Title

• Biographies in music (Radio program)
• Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (Radio program)
• Texaco's opera quiz (Radio program)

Subject

• Operas

Note

• Sung in Italian.
• Titles from Opera news.
• Durations: 1:17:00 (synopses and features) ; 2:26:45 (opera).
• With production notes and official cast list (6 p.)

Indexed In (note)

• Opera news,

Event (note)

• Recorded in the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Apr. 19, 1969.

Contents

side 1. Introduction and synopsis of act 1 (Milton Cross) ; Biographies in music: Francis Robinson salutes the Vienna State Opera ; Synopsis of act 2 (Cross) ; Texaco's opera quiz, beginning. Actors' roundtable (Edward Downes and panelists Cornelia Otis Skinner, Peggy Wood, Tony Randall and Cyril Ritchard) -- side 2. Opera quiz, conclusion ; Synopsis of act 3 (Cross) ; Season farewell (Rudolf Bing) ; 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 306 (F)

Author

Cilèa, Francesco, 1866-1950.

Title

Adriana Lecouvreur : radio broadcast, 1969-04-19 [sound recording] : opera in four acts in Italian / music by Francesco Cliea ; libretto by Arturo Colautti, after the drama by Eugène Scribe and Ernest Legouvé.

Playing Time

011700 022645

Series

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Apr. 19, 1969]

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Apr. 19, 1969]

Performer

Renata Tebaldi (Adriana) ; Franco Corelli (Maurizio) ; Irene Dalis (La principessa di Bouillon) ; Anselmo Colzani (Michonnet) ; Morley Meredith (Il principe di Bouillon) ; Paul Franke (Abbé) ; Colette Boky (Mlle. Jouvenot) ; Marcia Baldwin (Mlle. Dangeville) ; Paul Plishka (Quinault) ; Robert Schmorr (Poisson) ; Edward Ghazal (Major-Domo) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; Fausto Cleva, conductor ; Milton Cross, broadcast announcer.

Original Version

Re-recorded at NYPL Mar. 1988 from borrowed masters from the Metropolitan Opera (4 sound tape reels : 7 1/2 ips, 1 track, mono. ; 10 in.).

Indexed In:

Opera news, v. 33, no. 25 (Apr. 19, 1969).

Event

Recorded in the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Apr. 19, 1969.

Added Author

Colautti, Arturo, 1851-1914. Librettist

Scribe, Eugène, 1791-1861. Adrienne Lecouvreur.

Legouvé, Ernest, 1807-1903. Adrienne Lecouvreur.

Tebaldi, Renata. Performer

Corelli, Franco. Performer

Dalis, Irene. Performer

Colzani, Anselmo. Performer

Meredith, Morley. Performer

Franke, Paul, 1917-2011. Performer

Boky, Colette. Performer

Baldwin, Marcia. Performer

Plishka, Paul, 1941- Performer

Schmorr, Robert. Performer

Ghazal, Edward. Performer

Cleva, Fausto. Conductor

Cross, Milton, 1897-1975. Commentator

Robinson, Francis, 1910- Commentator

Downes, Edward, 1911- Commentator

Skinner, Cornelia Otis, 1901-1979. Commentator

Wood, Peggy, 1892-1978. Commentator

Randall, Tony. Commentator

Ritchard, Cyril, 1897-1977. Commentator

Bing, Rudolf, 1902-1997. Commentator

Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.)

Added Title

Biographies in music (Radio program)

Texaco's opera quiz (Radio program)

Metropolitan Opera Radio Broadcast collection.

Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (Radio program)

Research Call Number

*LTCM 306 (F) Production notes on file.