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Tosca opera in three acts

Title: Tosca [sound recording] : opera in three acts / music by Giacomo Puccini ; libretto by Victorien Sardou, Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa.
Author: Puccini, Giacomo, 1858-1924.

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Description

3 sound tape reels (179 min.) : analog, 7 1/2 ips, 2 track, mono.; 10 in.

Series Statement

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Dec. 13, 1952]

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: 0:56:06 (synopses and features) ; 2:02:37 (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)

Broadcast live from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Dec. 13, 1952.

Reproduction (note)

Service copy

Language (note)

Sung in Italian.

Contents

side 1. Introduction and synopsis of act 1 (Milton Cross) ; Opera news on the air (Boris Goldovsky, host, with Theresa Helburn) ; Synopsis of act 2 (Cross) ; Texaco's opera quiz (Robert Lawrence, host, with Sigmund Spaeth, Walter Ducloux, and Herbert Weinstock) -- side 2. Closing remarks (Cross) -- side 3. Act 1 -- side 4. Act 2 -- side 5. Act 3 -- side 6. [blank].

Call Number

*LT-10 4881

OCLC

NYPG89-R42

Author

Puccini, Giacomo, 1858-1924.

Title

Tosca [sound recording] : opera in three acts / music by Giacomo Puccini ; libretto by Victorien Sardou, Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa.

Playing Time

005606 020237

Series

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Dec. 13, 1952]

Performer

Dorothy Kirsten (Tosca) ; Ferruccio Tagliavini (Cavaradossi) ; Paul Schoeffler (Baron Scarpia) ; Clifford Harvuot (Angelotti) ; Lawrence Davidson (Sacristan) ; Alessio De Paolis (Spoletta) ; George Cehanovsky (Sciarrone) ; Algerd Brazis (Jailer) ; Margaret Roggero (Shepherd) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; Fausto Cleva, conductor ; Milton Cross, broadcast announcer.

Original Version

Preservation tape, recorded at NYPL, Feb. 1989, from aluminum-based acetates (6 sound discs : 33 1/3 rpm, mono. ; 16 in.), lent by the Metropolitan Opera.

Indexed In:

Opera news, v. 17, no. 6 (Dec. 8, 1952).

Event

Broadcast live from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Dec. 13, 1952.

Reproduction

Service copy (3 sound cassettes : analog, mono., Dolby-B processed) in *LTCM 331 (F)

Language

Sung in Italian.

Added Author

Sardou, Victorien, 1831-1908. Librettist

Illica, Luigi, 1857-1919. Librettist

Giacosa, Giuseppe, 1847-1906. Librettist

Kirsten, Dorothy, 1910-1992. Performer

Tagliavini, Ferruccio, 1913- Performer

Schöffler, Paul, 1897- Performer

Harvuot, Clifford, 1912-1990. Performer

Davidson, Lawrence (Baritone) Performer

De Paolis, Alessio. Performer

Cehanovsky, George, 1892-1986. Performer

Brazis, Algerd. Performer

Roggero, Margaret. Performer

Cleva, Fausto. Conductor

Cross, Milton, 1897-1975. Commentator

Goldovsky, Boris. Commentator

Helburn, Theresa, 1887-1959. Commentator

Lawrence, Robert, 1912- Commentator

Spaeth, Sigmund, 1885-1965. Commentator

Ducloux, Walter. Commentator

Weinstock, Herbert, 1905-1971. Commentator

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

Herbert Weinstock Memorial Fund.

Added Title

Opera news on the air (Radio program)

Texaco's opera quiz (Radio program)

Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (Radio program)

Research Call Number

*LT-10 4881 Master tape. Request cassette service copy in *LTCM 331 (F)

*LTCM 331 (F) Cassette service copy; production notes on file. Master tape in *LT-10 4881.

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