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Ernani opera in four acts

Title: Ernani [sound recording] : opera in four acts / music by Giuseppe Verdi ; libretto by Francesco Maria Piave, based on the play by Victor Hugo.
Author: Verdi, Giuseppe, 1813-1901.

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Description

3 sound cassettes (214 min.) : stereo, Dolby-B processed.

Series Statement

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Dec. 17, 1983]

Uniform Title

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

Alternative Title

Third intermission feature (Radio program)

Subjects

Genre/Form

Live sound recordings.

Note

Title from house program ; series title from Opera news.
Durations: 1:20:02 (synopses and features) ; 2:13:43 (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. 17, 1983.

Reproduction (note)

Service copy (3 sound cassettes : stereo, Dolby-B processed) available in: *LTCM 438 (F)

Language (note)

Sung in Italian.

Contents

side 1. Introduction and synopsis of act 1 (Peter Allen) ; Opera news on the air (Nimet Habachy) ; Synopsis of act 2 (Peter Allen) ; Texaco's opera quiz (Edward Downes, host, with Robert Jacobson, William McClosky and Terrence McNally) -- side 2. Synopsis of act 3 (Peter Allen) ; Third Intermission (William Edgerton) ; Synopsis of act 4 (Peter Allen) -- side 3. Act 1 through "Infelice" -- side 4. Act 1 concluded ; Act 2 -- side 5. Act 3 -- side 6. Act 4 ; Closing remarks (Peter Allen).

Call Number

*LTCM 438 (F)

OCLC

NYPG91-R105

Author

Verdi, Giuseppe, 1813-1901.

Title

Ernani [sound recording] : opera in four acts / music by Giuseppe Verdi ; libretto by Francesco Maria Piave, based on the play by Victor Hugo.

Playing Time

012002 021343

Series

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Dec. 17, 1983]

Performer

Luciano Pavarotti (Ernani) ; Leona Mitchell (Elvira) ; Sherrill Milnes (Don Carlo) ; Jean Kraft (Giovanna) ; Ruggero Raimondi (Don Ruy Gomez de Silva) ; Richard Vernon (Jago) ; Charles Anthony (Don Riccardo) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; James Levine, conductor ; Peter Allen, broadcast announcer.

Original Version

Re-recorded at NYPL in Jan. 1991, from borrowed masters (4 sound tape reels : 7 1/2 ips, 2 track, stereo ; 10 in.) lent by the Metropolitan Opera.

Indexed In:

Opera news, v. 48, no. 6 (Dec. 10, 1983).

Event

Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Dec. 17, 1983.

Reproduction

Service copy (3 sound cassettes : stereo, Dolby-B processed) available in: *LTCM 438 (F)

Language

Sung in Italian.

Added Author

Piave, Francesco Maria, 1810-1876. Librettist

Hugo, Victor, 1802-1885. Hernani.

Pavarotti, Luciano. Performer

Mitchell, Leona. Performer

Milnes, Sherrill. Performer

Kraft, Jean. Performer

Raimondi, Ruggero. Performer

Vernon, Richard, 1950- Performer

Anthony, Charles, 1929-2012. Performer

Levine, James, 1943-2021. Conductor

Allen, Peter, 1920- Commentator

Peters, Roberta, 1930-2017. Commentator

Habachy, Nimet. Commentator

Downes, Edward, 1911- Commentator

Jacobson, Robert M. Commentator

McClosky, William. Commentator

McNally, Terrence. Commentator

Edgerton, William. Commentator

Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.)

Added Title

Opera news on the air (Radio program)

Texaco's opera quiz (Radio program)

Third intermission feature (Radio program)

Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (Radio program)

Research Call Number

*LTCM 438 (F) (Production notes on file.)

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