Research Catalog

Title

Le nozze di Figaro [sound recording] : opera in four acts / music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ; libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte.

Author

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Da Ponte, Lorenzo, 1749-1838.
• Furlanetto, Ferruccio.
• Upshaw, Dawn.
• Moll, Kurt, 1938-
• Christin, Judith.
• Von Stade, Frederica.
• Hampson, Thomas.
• Laciura, Anthony.
• Schuman, Patricia, 1954-
• Courtney, James, 1946-
• Fitch, Bernard.
• Grant Murphy, Heidi.
• Levine, James, 1943-2021.
• Allen, Peter, 1920-2016.
• Mohr, Richard.
• Mansouri, Lotfi.
• Downes, Edward, 1911-
• Ames, Alison, 1945-
• Weaver, William, 1923-2013
• Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.)
• Metropolitan Opera Radio Broadcast collection.

Description

5 sound discs (235 min.) : digital, stereo.; 4 3/4 in.

Donor/Sponsor

Gift of the Metropolitan Opera.

Series Statement

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera International Radio Network ; [broadcast of Mar. 21, 1992]

Uniform Title

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

Subjects

• Live sound recordings
• Operas

Genre/Form

Live sound recordings.

Note

• Compact discs.
• House program on file in Music Division.
• Durations: 0:46:55 (synopses and features) ; 3:08:14 (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. 21, 1992.

Reproduction (note)

• Preservation copy (4 sound cassettes : stereo, Dolby-B processed) available in: *LTCM 612 (F)

Source (note)

• Metropolitan Opera;

Language (note)

• Sung in Italian.

Contents

CD 1. Introduction and synopsis of act I (Peter Allen) ; Overture ; Act I -- CD 2. Act II -- CD 3. Act III -- CD 4. Act IV ; Closing remarks (Allen) -- CD 5. Opera news on the air (Richard Mohr and Lotfi Mansouri) ; Synopsis of act II (Allen) ; Texaco's opera quiz (Edward Downes, host, with Alison Ames, Lotfi Mansouri and William Weaver) ; Synopsis of act III (Allen).

Call Number

*LTCM 612 (F)

OCLC

NYPG92-R1412

Author

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791.

Title

Le nozze di Figaro [sound recording] : opera in four acts / music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ; libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte.

Playing Time

004655 030814

Series

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera International Radio Network ; [broadcast of Mar. 21, 1992]

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera International Radio Network ; [broadcast of Mar. 21, 1992]

Performer

Ferruccio Furlanetto (Figaro) ; Dawn Upshaw (Susanna) ; Kurt Moll (Don Bartolo) ; Judith Christin (Marcellina) ; Frederica von Stade (Cherubino) ; Thomas Hampson (Count Almaviva) ; Anthony Laciura (Don Basilio) ; Patricia Schuman (Countess Almaviva) ; James Courtney (Antonio) ; Bernard Fitch (Don Curzio) ; Heidi Grant Murphy (Barbarina) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; James Levine, conductor ; Peter Allen, broadcast announcer.

Indexed In:

Opera news, v. 56, no. 13 (Mar. 14, 1992).

Event

Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Mar. 21, 1992.

Original Version

Preservation copy re-recorded at NYPL in July, 1992, from borrowed masters (4 sound tape reels : 7 1/2 ips, 2 track, stereo ; 10 in.) lent by the Metropolitan Opera.

Reproduction

Preservation copy (4 sound cassettes : stereo, Dolby-B processed) available in: *LTCM 612 (F)

Language

Sung in Italian.

Connect to:

Request Access to Music Division Audio and Moving Image material

Added Author

Da Ponte, Lorenzo, 1749-1838. Librettist

Furlanetto, Ferruccio. Performer

Upshaw, Dawn. Performer

Moll, Kurt, 1938- Performer

Christin, Judith. Performer

Von Stade, Frederica. Performer

Hampson, Thomas. Performer

Laciura, Anthony. Performer

Schuman, Patricia, 1954- Performer

Courtney, James, 1946- performer

Fitch, Bernard. Performer

Grant Murphy, Heidi. Performer

Levine, James, 1943-2021. Conductor

Allen, Peter, 1920-2016. Commentator

Mohr, Richard. Commentator

Mansouri, Lotfi. Commentator

Downes, Edward, 1911- Commentator

Ames, Alison, 1945- Commentator

Weaver, William, 1923-2013, commentator.

Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.)

Added Title

Opera news on the air (Radio program)

Texaco's opera quiz (Radio program)

Added Title

Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (Radio program)

Research Call Number

*LTCM 612 (F) Preservation copy. (Production notes on file.) Use service copy in *LDC 30398.

*LDC 30398 Service copy.