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Boris Godunov : opera in four acts

Title: Boris Godunov : radio broadcast, 1953-03-28 [sound recording] : opera in four acts / music by M.P. Mussorgsky, based on Pushkin ; orchestral score revised and newly edited by Karol Rathaus ; English text by John Gutman.
Author: Mussorgsky, Modest Petrovich, 1839-1881.

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Description

4 sound tape reels (237 min.) : analog, 7 1/2 ips, 2 track, mono.; 10 in.

Series Statement

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Mar. 28, 1953]

Uniform Title

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

Alternative Title

Boris Godunov.

Subjects

Genre/Form

Live sound recordings.

Note

Title from house program ; series title from Opera news.
Durations: 0:57:17 (synopses and features) ; 3:00:10 (opera).
Production notes and official cast list (5 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, Mar. 28, 1953.

Reproduction (note)

Service copy (4 sound cassettes : analog, mono., Dolby-B processed) available in: *LTCM 346 (F)

Language (note)

Sung in English.

Contents

side 1. Introduction and synopsis of act 1 (Milton Cross) ; Opera news on the air (Boris Goldovsky, host, with Deems Taylor) ; Synopsis of act 2 (Cross) ; Texaco's opera quiz, (Robert Lawrence, host, with Sigmund Spaeth, Robert Bagar and George Marek) ; Synopsis of act 3 (Cross) ; Opera quiz part 2 -- side 2. Synopsis of act 4 and closing remarks (Cross) -- side 3. Introduction through "Pimen's cell" -- side 4. "Song of the Innkeeper" through "Song of warlaam" -- side 5. "Song of the Gnat" ; Act 2 concluded -- side 6. Act 3 -- side 7. Act 4 -- side 8. Forest near Kromy.

Call Number

*LT-10 4896

OCLC

NYPG89-R75

Author

Mussorgsky, Modest Petrovich, 1839-1881.

Title

Boris Godunov : radio broadcast, 1953-03-28 [sound recording] : opera in four acts / music by M.P. Mussorgsky, based on Pushkin ; orchestral score revised and newly edited by Karol Rathaus ; English text by John Gutman.

Playing Time

005717 030010

Series

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Mar. 28, 1953]

Performer

George London (Boris Godunov) ; Mildred Miller (Fyodor) ; Paula Lenchner (Xenia) ; Jean Madeira (Xenia's nurse) ; Andrew Mckinley (Prince Shuiski) ; Clifford Harvuot (Shchelkalov) ; Norman Scott (Pimen) ; Brian Sullivan (Grigori) ; Blanche Thebom (Marina) ; Sigurd Bjoerling (Rangoni) ; Salvatore Baccaloni (Varlaam) ; Thomas Hayward (Missail) ; Martha Lipton (Innkeeper) ; Osie Hawkins (Officer of the fontier guard) ; Paul Franke (Simpleton) ; Lawrence Davidson (Nikitch) ; Osie Hawkins (Lavitski) ; Lawrence Davidson (Chernikovski) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; Fritz Stiedry, conductor ; Milton Cross, broadcast announcer.

Original Version

Preservation tapes recorded at NYPL in Jan. 1989, from aluminum-based acetates (8 sound discs : analog, 33 1/3 rpm, mono. ; 16 in.) lent by the Metropolitan Opera.

Indexed In:

Opera news, v. 17, no. 21 (Mar. 23, 1953).

Event

Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Mar. 28, 1953.

Reproduction

Service copy (4 sound cassettes : analog, mono., Dolby-B processed) available in: *LTCM 346 (F)

Language

Sung in English.

Added Author

Gutman, John. Translator

Rathaus, Karol, 1895-1954. Arranger

Pushkin, Aleksandr Sergeevich, 1799-1837. Boris Godunov.

London, George, 1920-1985. Performer

Miller, Mildred, 1924- Performer

Lenchner, Paula. Performer

Madeira, Jean. Performer

McKinley, Andrew. Performer

Harvuot, Clifford, 1912-1990. Performer

Scott, Norman, 1921-1968. Performer

Sullivan, Brian, 1919-1969. Performer

Thebom, Blanche. Performer

Björling, Sigurd. Performer

Baccaloni, Salvatore, 1900-1969. Performer

Hayward, Thomas, 1921- Performer

Lipton, Martha. Performer

Hawkins, Osie. Performer

Franke, Paul, 1917-2011. Performer

Davidson, Lawrence (Baritone) Performer

Stiedry, Fritz. Conductor

Cross, Milton, 1897-1975. Commentator

Goldovsky, Boris. Commentator

Taylor, Deems, 1885-1966. Commentator

Lawrence, Robert, 1912- Commentator

Bagar, Robert C. Commentator

Spaeth, Sigmund, 1885-1965. Commentator

Marek, George R. (George Richard), 1902-1987. 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

*LT-10 4896 Master tape. Request cassette service copy in *LTCM 346 (F)

*LTCM 346 (F) Cassette service copy; production notes on file. Master tape in *LT-10 4896.

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