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Roméo et Juliette opera in three acts

Title: Roméo et Juliette [sound recording] : opera in three acts / music Charles Gounod ; libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré.
Author: Gounod, Charles, 1818-1893.

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Description

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

Series Statement

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Dec. 6, 1986]

Uniform Title

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

Subjects

Genre/Form

Live sound recordings.

Note

Title from house program ; series title from Opera news.
Durations: 0:51:01 (synopses and features) ; 2:53:01 (opera).
Production notes and official cast list (4 p.) on file in the Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound.

Indexed In (note)

Opera news

Event (note)

Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Dec. 6, 1986.

Reproduction (note)

Service copy (3 sound cassettes : stereo, Dolby-B processed) available in: *LTCM 496 (F)

Language (note)

Sung in French.

Contents

side 1. Introduction and synopsis of act 1 (Peter Allen) ; Opera news on the air (Richard Mohr, host, with Joan Sutherland) ; Synopsis of act 2 (Allen) -- side 2. Texaco's opera quiz (Edward Downes, host, with Peter Bonelli, Terrence McNally and John Pfeiffer) ; Synopsis of act 3 (Allen) -- side 3. Overture ; Act 1 -- side 4. Act 2 through "Depuis hier je cherche en vain mon maître" -- side 5. Act 2 concluded ; Act 3 through "Mon père! Tout m'accable!" -- side 6. Act 3 concluded ; Closing remarks (Allen).

Call Number

*LTCM 496 (F)

OCLC

NYPG91-R601

Author

Gounod, Charles, 1818-1893.

Title

Roméo et Juliette [sound recording] : opera in three acts / music Charles Gounod ; libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré.

Playing Time

005101 025301

Series

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Dec. 6, 1986]

Performer

Allan Glassman (Tybalt) ; David Bernard (Paris) ; Dimitri Kavrakos (Capulet) ; Cecilia Gasdia (Juliette) ; Brian Schexnayder (Mercutio) ; Alfredo Kraus (Roméo) ; Hillary Johnsson (Gertrude) ; Philip Booth (Gregorio) ; Paul Plishka (Friar Laurent) ; Hilda Harris (Stephano) ; Kirk Redmann (Benvolio) ; Andrew Wentzel (The Duke of Verona) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; Plácido Domingo, conductor ; Peter Allen, broadcast announcer.

Original Version

Re-recorded at NYPL in Aug. 1991, from borrowed masters (3 sound tape reels : 7 1/2 ips, 2 track, stereo ; 10 in.) lent by the Metropolitan Opera.

Indexed In:

Opera news, v. 51, no. 6 (Dec. 6, 1986).

Event

Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Dec. 6, 1986.

Reproduction

Service copy (3 sound cassettes : stereo, Dolby-B processed) available in: *LTCM 496 (F)

Language

Sung in French.

Added Author

Barbier, Jules, 1825-1901. Librettist

Carré, Michel, 1819-1872. Librettist

Glassman, Allan. Performer

Bernard, David. Performer

Kavrakos, Dimitri. Performer

Gasdia, Cecilia. Performer

Schexnayder, Brian. Performer

Kraus, Alfredo. Performer

Johnsson, Hillary. Performer

Booth, Philip, 1942- Performer

Plishka, Paul, 1941- Performer

Harris, Hilda, 1930- Performer

Redmann, Kirk. Performer

Wentzel, Andrew. Performer

Domingo, Plácido, 1941- Conductor

Allen, Peter, 1920- Commentator

Stevens, Risë, 1913-2013. Commentator

Mohr, Richard. Commentator

Sutherland, Joan, 1926-2010. Commentator

Downes, Edward, 1911- Commentator

Bonelli, Peter. Commentator

McNally, Terrence. Commentator

Pfeiffer, John, 1920- Commentator

Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.)

Added Title

Opera news on the air (Radio program)

Texaco's opera quiz (Radio program)

Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (Radio program)

Research Call Number

*LTCM 496 (F) (Production notes in listening room.)

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