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, Peter, 1920-2016.
• Anthony, Charles, 1929-2012.
• Belt, Byron.
• Boito, Arrigo, 1842-1918.
• Boucher, Gene.
• Cassilly, Richard, 1927-
• Culshaw, John.
• Darrenkamp, John.
• Downes, Edward, 1911-
• Kraft, Jean.
• Leverie, Sigmund.
• Levine, James, 1943-2021.
• Little, Francis E., 1936-
• Masiello, Alberta.
• McNally, Terrence.
• Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.)
• Metropolitan Opera Radio Broadcast collection.
• Milnes, Sherrill.
• Morris, James, 1947-
• Sooter, Edward.
• Weaver, William, 1923-2013,
• Zylis-Gara, Teresa.

Description

3 sound cassettes (223 min.) : stereo, Dolby-B processed.

Series Statement

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Feb. 9, 1980]

Uniform Title

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

Subject

• Operas

Note

• Title from house program ; series title from Opera news.
• Durations: 1:24:45 (synopses and features) ; 2:18:27 (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,

Performer (note)

• John Darrenkamp (Montano) ; Frank Little (Cassio) ; Sherrill Milnes (Iago) ; Charles Anthony (Roderigo) ; Richard Cassilly [Act I], Edward Sooter [Acts II-III] (Otello) ; Teresa Zylis-Gara (Desdemona) ; Jean Kraft (Emila) ; Gene Boucher (A herald) ; James Morris (Lodovico) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; James Levine, conductor ; Peter Allen, broadcast announcer.

Event (note)

• Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Feb. 9, 1980.

Reproduction (note)

• Service copy (3 sound cassettes : stereo, Dolby-B processed) available in: *LTCM 634 (F)

Language (note)

• Sung in Italian.

Contents

side 1. Introduction and synopsis of act 1 (Peter Allen) ; Opera news on the air (John Culshaw) ; Synopsis of act 2 (Allen) ; Texaco's opera quiz (Edward Downes, host, with Alberta Masiello, Terrence McNally, Sigmund Leverie and Byron Belt) -- side 2. Opera quiz concluded ; Synopsis of act 3 (Allen) ; Texaco's roving opera reporter (William Weaver) ; Synopsis of act 4 (Allen) -- side 3. Act 1 -- side 4. Act 2 -- side 5. Act 3 -- side 6. Act 4 ; Closing remarks (Allen).

Call Number

*LTCM 634 (F)

Author

Verdi, Giuseppe, 1813-1901.

Title

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

Playing Time

012445 021827

Series

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Feb. 9, 1980]

Cast

John Darrenkamp (Montano) ; Frank Little (Cassio) ; Sherrill Milnes (Iago) ; Charles Anthony (Roderigo) ; Richard Cassilly [Act I], Edward Sooter [Acts II-III] (Otello) ; Teresa Zylis-Gara (Desdemona) ; Jean Kraft (Emila) ; Gene Boucher (A herald) ; James Morris (Lodovico) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; James Levine, conductor ; Peter Allen, broadcast announcer.

Original Version

Re-recorded at NYPL in Oct. 1992, 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. 44, no. 13 (Feb. 9, 1980).

Event

Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Feb. 9, 1980.

Reproduction

Service copy (3 sound cassettes : stereo, Dolby-B processed) available in: *LTCM 634 (F)

Language

Sung in Italian.

Added Author

Boito, Arrigo, 1842-1918. Librettist

Darrenkamp, John. Performer

Little, Francis E., 1936- Performer

Milnes, Sherrill. Performer

Anthony, Charles, 1929-2012. Performer

Cassilly, Richard, 1927- Performer

Sooter, Edward. Performer

Zylis-Gara, Teresa. Performer

Kraft, Jean. Performer

Boucher, Gene. Performer

Morris, James, 1947- Performer

Levine, James, 1943-2021. Conductor

Allen, Peter, 1920-2016. Commentator

Culshaw, John. Commentator

Downes, Edward, 1911- Commentator

Masiello, Alberta. Commentator

McNally, Terrence. Commentator

Leverie, Sigmund. Commentator

Belt, Byron. 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)

Texaco's roving opera reporter (Radio program)

Metropolitan Opera Radio Broadcast collection.

Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (Radio program)

Research Call Number

*LTCM 634 (F) (Production notes on file in listening room.)