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Otello opera in four acts

Title: Otello [sound recording] : opera in four acts / music by Giuseppe Verdi ; libretto by Arrigo Boito after the play by Shakespeare.
Author: Verdi, Giuseppe, 1813-1901.

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Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.	Audio	Use in library	*LDC 33918 [CD. Service copy]	Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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Description

4 sound discs (185 min.) : digital, stereo.; 4 3/4 in.

Donor/Sponsor

Gift of the Metropolitan Opera.

Series Statement

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Apr. 2, 1994]

Uniform Title

Texaco's opera quiz (Radio program)
Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (Radio program)

Subjects

Genre/Form

Live sound recordings.

Note

Durations: 0:33:06 (synopses and features) ; 2:32:07 (opera).
Compact discs.
Production notes and official cast list (4 p.) filed under classmark: *LTCM 745 (F).
House program on file in Music Division.

Indexed In (note)

Opera news

Event (note)

Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Apr. 2, 1994.

Reproduction (note)

Cassette copy (3 sound cassettes : analog, stereo, Dolby-B processed) available in: *LTCM 745 (F)

Source (note)

Metropolitan Opera;

Language (note)

Sung in Italian.

Contents

CD 1. Act 1 ; Synopsis of Act 2 (Peter Allen) ; Act 2 -- CD 2. Act 3 ; Synopsis of Act 4 (Allen) -- CD 3. Act 4 ; Closing remarks (Allen) -- CD 4. Introduction and synopsis of Act 1 (Allen) ; Texaco's opera quiz (Edward Downes, host, with Carolyn Abbate, Speight Jenkins and William Weaver) ; Synopsis of Act 3 (Allen).

Call Number

*LDC 33918

OCLC

NYPG95-R647

Author

Verdi, Giuseppe, 1813-1901.

Title

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

Playing Time

003306 023207

Series

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Apr. 2, 1994]

Performer

Kim Josephson (Montano) ; Richard Croft (Cassio) ; Sergei Leiferkus (Iago) ; Charles Anthony (Roderigo) ; Plʹacido Domingo (Otello) ; Carol Vaness (Desdemona) ; Jane Bunnell (Emilia) ; Yanni Yannissis (A herald) ; Paul Plishka (Lodovico) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; Valery Gergiev, conductor ; Peter Allen, broadcast announcer.

Indexed In:

Opera news, v. 58, no. 14 (Apr. 2, 1994).

Event

Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Apr. 2, 1994.

Original Version

Preservation tape, recorded at NYPL in Mar. 1995, from borrowed masters (3 tape reels : analog, 7 1/2 ips, stereo ; 10 in.) lent by the Metropolitan Opera.

Reproduction

Cassette copy (3 sound cassettes : analog, stereo, Dolby-B processed) available in: *LTCM 745 (F)

Language

Sung in Italian.

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Added Author

Boito, Arrigo, 1842-1918. Librettist

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Othello.

Josephson, Kim. Performer

Croft, Richard. Performer

Leĭferkus, Sergeĭ, 1946- Performer

Anthony, Charles, 1929-2012. Performer

Domingo, Plácido, 1941- Performer

Vaness, Carol. Performer

Bunnell, Jane. Performer

Yannissis, Yanni. Performer

Plishka, Paul, 1941- Performer

Gergiev, Valeriĭ, 1953- Conductor

Allen, Peter, 1920-2016. Commentator

Downes, Edward, 1911- Commentator

Abbate, Carolyn. Commentator

Jenkins, Speight. Commentator

Weaver, William, 1923-2013, commentator.

Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.)

Added Title

Texaco's opera quiz (Radio program)

Added Title

Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (Radio program)

Research Call Number

*LDC 33918 Service copy.

*LT-10-A 1598 Master tape. Request cassette service copy in *LDC 33918.

*LTCM 745 (F) Cassette copy. (Production notes on file). Use service copy in *LDC 33918.

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