Research Catalog

Title

Otello [sound recording] : opera in four acts / music by Giuseppe Verdi ; libretto by Arrigo Boito.

Author

Verdi, Giuseppe, 1813-1901.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Allen, Reginald.
• Boito, Arrigo, 1842-1918.
• Budney, Arthur.
• Coles, Chandler.
• Cross, Milton, 1897-1975.
• Del Monaco, Mario, 1915-
• Fadiman, Clifton, 1904-1999,
• Franke, Paul, 1917-2011.
• Gish, Lillian, 1893-1993.
• Goldovsky, Boris.
• Harrison, Jay.
• Hawkins, Osie.
• Lawrence, Robert, 1912-
• Lipton, Martha.
• McCracken, James, 1926-
• Menotti, Gian Carlo, 1911-2007.
• Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.)
• Metropolitan Opera Radio Broadcast collection.
• Peerce, Jan, 1904-1984.
• Peltz, Mary Ellis, 1896-1981.
• Stiedry, Fritz.
• Tebaldi, Renata.
• Vichegonov, Lubomir.
• Warren, Leonard, 1911-1960.

Description

4 sound tape reels (228 min.) : analog, 7 1/2 ips, 2 track, mono.; 10 in.

Series Statement

• Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Mar. 12, 1955]
• Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of] Mar. 12, 1955

Uniform Title

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

Alternative Title

• Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (Radio program).
• Texaco's roving opera reporter (Radio program)

Subject

• Operas

Note

• Sung in Italian.
• Title from house program ; series title from Opera news.
• Durations: 1:16:45 (synopses and features) ; 2:31:41 (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, Mar. 12, 1955.

Reproduction (note)

• Service copy (3 sound cassettes : analog, mono., Dolby-B processed) available in: *LTCM 422 (F)

Contents

side 1. Introduction and synopsis of act 1 (Milton Cross) ; Opera news on the air (Boris Goldovsky, host, with Jan Peerce and Lillian Gish) ; Synopsis of act 2 (Cross) ; Texaco's opera quiz (Robert Lawrence, host, with Mary Ellis Peltz, Jay Harrison and Reginald Allen) -- side 2. Opera quiz concluded ; Synopsis of act 3 (Cross) ; Third intermission feature (Clifton Fadiman, host, with Gian Carlo Menotti and Chandler Coles) ; 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 422 (F)

Author

Verdi, Giuseppe, 1813-1901.

Title

Otello [sound recording] : opera in four acts / music by Giuseppe Verdi ; libretto by Arrigo Boito.

Playing Time

011645 023141

Series

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of] Mar. 12, 1955

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Mar. 12, 1955]

Performer

Mario Del Monaco (Otello) ; Renata Tebaldi (Desdemona) ; Leonard Warren (Iago) ; Martha Lipton (Emilia) ; Paul Franke (Cassio) ; James McCracken (Roderigo) ; Luben Vichey (Lodovico) ; Osie Hawkins (Montano) ; Arthur Budney (A herald) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; Fritz Stiedry, conductor ; Milton Cross, broadcast announcer.

Original Version

Preservation tape, recorded at NYPL in May, 1990, 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. 19, no. 18 (Mar. 7, 1955).

Event

Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Mar. 12, 1955.

Reproduction

Service copy (3 sound cassettes : analog, mono., Dolby-B processed) available in: *LTCM 422 (F)

Added Author

Boito, Arrigo, 1842-1918. Librettist

Del Monaco, Mario, 1915- Performer

Tebaldi, Renata. Performer

Warren, Leonard, 1911-1960. Performer

Lipton, Martha. Performer

Franke, Paul, 1917-2011. Performer

McCracken, James, 1926- Performer

Vichegonov, Lubomir. Performer

Hawkins, Osie. Performer

Budney, Arthur. Performer

Stiedry, Fritz. Conductor

Cross, Milton, 1897-1975. Commentator

Goldovsky, Boris. Commentator

Peerce, Jan, 1904-1984. Commentator

Gish, Lillian, 1893-1993. Commentator

Lawrence, Robert, 1912- Commentator

Peltz, Mary Ellis, 1896-1981. Commentator

Harrison, Jay. Commentator

Allen, Reginald. Commentator

Fadiman, Clifton, 1904-1999, host.

Menotti, Gian Carlo, 1911-2007. Commentator

Coles, Chandler. Commentator

Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.)

Added Title

Opera news on the air (Radio program)

Texaco's opera quiz (Radio program)

Texaco's roving opera reporter (Radio program)

Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (Radio program).

Metropolitan Opera Radio Broadcast collection.

Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (Radio program)

Research Call Number

*LTCM 422 (F) Cassette service copy; production notes on file. Master tape in *LT-10 6088.

*LT-10 6088 Master tape. Request cassette service copy in *LTCM 422 (F)