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Tosca [sound recording] : opera in three acts

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

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Description

3 sound cassettes (178 min.) : analog, mono., Dolby-B processed.

Series Statement

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Jan. 10, 1970]

Uniform Title

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

Subject

Operas

Note

Title from house program ; series title from Opera news.
Durations: 1:03:00 (synopses and features) ; 1:54:20 (opera).
Production notes and official cast list (6 p.) on file in the Rodgers and Hammerstein listening room.

Indexed In (note)

Opera news,

Event (note)

Originally broadcast live from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Jan. 10, 1970.

Language (note)

Sung in Italian.

Contents

side 1. Introduction and synopsis of act 1 (Milton Cross) ; Opera news on the air: "The right and wrong way to sing" with Edward Downes, Birgit Nilsson and Joan Sutherland ; Synopsis of act 2 (Cross) -- side 2. Texaco's opera quiz, with quizmaster Edward Downes and panelists Alberta Masiello, Walter Slezak, Terry McEwen, and John Kander ; Synopsis of act 3 (Cross) -- side 3. Act 1 -- side 4. Act 2 -- side 5. Act 3 ; Closing remarks (Cross).

Call Number

*LTCM 314 (F)

Author

Puccini, Giacomo, 1858-1924.

Title

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

Playing Time

010300 015520

Series

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Jan. 10, 1970]

Performer

Renata Tebaldi (Floria Tosca) ; Sándor Kónya (Mario Cavaradossi) ; Cornell MacNeil (Baron Scarpia) ; Clifford Harvuot (Cesare Angelotti) ; Fernando Corena (Sacristan) ; Robert Schmorr (Spoletta) ; Gene Boucher (Sciarrone) ; Edmond Karlsrud (Jailer) ; Kris Kalfayan (Shepherd) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; Francesco Molinari-Pradelli, conductor ; Milton Cross, broadcast announcer.

Original Version

Re-recorded at NYPL in June 1988, from masters borrowed from the Metropolitan Opera (3 sound tape reels : 7 1/2 ips, 1 track, mono. ; 10 in.).

Indexed In:

Opera news, v. 34, no. 11 (Jan. 10, 1970).

Event

Originally broadcast live from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Jan. 10, 1970.

Language

Sung in Italian.

Added Author

Illica, Luigi, 1857-1919. Librettist

Giacosa, Giuseppe, 1847-1906. Librettist

Sardou, Victorien, 1831-1908. Tosca.

Tebaldi, Renata. Performer

Kónya, Sándor, 1923-2002. Performer

MacNeil, Cornell, 1922- Performer

Harvuot, Clifford, 1912-1990. Performer

Corena, Fernando. Performer

Schmorr, Robert. Performer

Boucher, Gene. Performer

Karlsrud, Edmond. Performer

Kalfayan, Kris. Performer

Molinari-Pradelli, Francesco. Conductor

Cross, Milton, 1897-1975. Commentator

Downes, Edward, 1911- Commentator

Nilsson, Birgit. Commentator

Sutherland, Joan, 1926-2010. Commentator

Masiello, Alberta. Commentator

Slezak, Walter, 1902- Commentator

McEwen, Terry. Commentator

Kander, John. Commentator

Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.)

Added Title

Opera news on the air (Radio program)

Texaco's opera quiz (Radio program)

Metropolitan Opera Radio Broadcast collection.

Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (Radio program)

Research Call Number

*LTCM 314 (F) Production notes in listening room.

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