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La Traviata [sound recording] : opera in four acts

Title: La Traviata [sound recording] : opera in four acts / Giuseppe Verdi ; libretto by F.M. Piave, based on "La dame aux camélias" by Alexandre Dumas.
Author: Verdi, Giuseppe, 1813-1901.

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Description

3 sound cassettes (201 min.) : analog, mono., Dolby-B processed.

Series Statement

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Dec. 30, 1967]

Uniform Title

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

Subjects

Note

Title from house program ; series title from Opera news.
Durations: 1:14:30 (synopses and features) ; 2:06:30 (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, Dec. 30, 1967.

Language (note)

Sung in Italian.

Contents

side 1. Introduction and synopsis of Act 1 (Milton Cross) ; Opera news on the air (Edward Downes interviews Maria Callas, part 1) ; Synopsis of act 2 (Cross) -- side 2. Texaco's opera quiz (Edward Downes, host, with Boris Goldovsky, Richard Mohr and Tony Randall) ; Synopsis of act 3 (Cross) ; Biographies in music (Francis Robinson recalls Marjorie Lawrence) ; Synopsis of act 4 (Cross) -- side 3. Act 1 -- side 4. Act 2 -- side 5. Act 3 -- side 6. Act 4 ; Closing remarks (Cross).

Call Number

*LTCM 270 (F)

Author

Verdi, Giuseppe, 1813-1901.

Title

La Traviata [sound recording] : opera in four acts / Giuseppe Verdi ; libretto by F.M. Piave, based on "La dame aux camélias" by Alexandre Dumas.

Playing Time

011430 020630

Series

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Dec. 30, 1967]

Performer

Anna Moffo (Violetta) ; John Alexander (Alfredo) ; Mario Sereni (Giorgio Germont) ; Nancy Williams (Flora Bervoix) ; Charles Anthony (Gastone) ; Robert Goodloe (Baron Douphol) ; Gene Boucher (Marquis d'Obigny) ; Louis Sgarro (Doctor Grenvil) ; Loretta Di Franco (Annina) ; Lou Marcella (Giuseppe) ; Peter Sliker (Gardener) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; Fausto Cleva, conductor ; Milton Cross, broadcast announcer.

Original Version

Re-recorded at NYPL in Oct. 1987, 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. 32, no. 9 (Dec. 30, 1967).

Event

Originally broadcast live from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Dec. 30, 1967.

Language

Sung in Italian.

Added Author

Piave, Francesco Maria, 1810-1876. Librettist

Dumas, Alexandre, 1824-1895. Dame aux camélias.

Moffo, Anna. Performer

Alexander, John, 1923-1990. Performer

Sereni, Mario. Performer

Williams, Nancy, 1935- Performer

Anthony, Charles, 1929-2012. Performer

Goodloe, Robert. Performer

Boucher, Gene. Performer

Sgarro, Louis, 1920-1985. Performer

Di Franco, Loretta. Performer

Marcella, Luigi. Performer

Sliker, Peter. Performer

Cleva, Fausto. Conductor

Cross, Milton, 1897-1975. Commentator

Downes, Edward, 1911- Commentator

Callas, Maria, 1923-1977. Commentator

Goldovsky, Boris. Commentator

Mohr, Richard. Commentator

Randall, Tony. Commentator

Robinson, Francis, 1910- Commentator

Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.)

Added Title

Opera news on the air (Radio program)

Texaco's opera quiz (Radio program)

Biographies in music (Radio program)

Metropolitan Opera Radio Broadcast collection.

Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (Radio program)

Research Call Number

*LTCM 270 (F) Production notes in listening room.

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