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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, founded on Shakespeare's tragedy.
Author: Verdi, Giuseppe, 1813-1901.

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Description

3 sound cassettes (226 min.) : analog, mono., Dolby-B processed.

Series Statement

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of 1967-03-11 (Mar. 11, 1967)]

Uniform Title

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

Subjects

Note

Titles from Opera news.
Durations: 1:21:30 (synopses and features) ; 2:24:00 (opera).
Production notes and official cast list (6 p.) on file in the Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound.

Indexed In (note)

Opera news

Event (note)

Originally broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Mar. 11, 1967.

Language (note)

Sung in Italian.

Contents

side 1. Introduction and synopsis of act 1 (Milton Cross) ; Opera news on the air (William Weaver interviews Tito Gobbi) ; Synopsis of act 2 (Cross) ; Texaco's opera quiz, beginning (Edward Downes, host, with Walter Ducloux, Siegmund Levarie, Tony Randall and George Schick) -- side 2. Opera quiz, conclusion ; Synopsis of act 3 (Cross) ; Biographies in music (Francis Robinson discusses Rosa Ponselle) ; 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 261 (F)

OCLC

NYPG87-R168

Author

Verdi, Giuseppe, 1813-1901.

Title

Otello [sound recording] : opera in four acts / music by Giuseppe Verdi ; libretto by Arrigo Boito, founded on Shakespeare's tragedy.

Playing Time

012130 022400

Series

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of 1967-03-11 (Mar. 11, 1967)]

Performer

James McCracken (Otello) ; Montserrat Caballé (Desdemona) ; Tito Gobbi (Iago) ; Shirley Love (Emilia) ; Ermanno Lorenzi (Cassio) ; Gabor Carelli (Roderigo) ; Raymond Michalski (Lodovico) ; Clifford Harvuot (Montano) ; Russell Christopher (Herald) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; Zubin Mehta, conductor ; Milton Cross, broadcast announcer.

Original Version

Re-recorded at NYPL in Mar. 1987, from masters borrowed from the Metropolitan Opera (4 sound tape reels : 7 1/2 ips, 2 track, mono. ; 10 in.).

Indexed In:

Opera news, v. 31, no. 20 (Mar. 11, 1967).

Event

Originally broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Mar. 11, 1967.

Language

Sung in Italian.

Added Author

Boito, Arrigo, 1842-1918. Librettist

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Othello.

McCracken, James, 1926- Performer

Caballé, Montserrat. Performer

Gobbi, Tito Performer. Commentator

Love, Shirley. Performer

Lorenzi, Ermanno. Performer

Carelli, Gabor. Performer

Michalski, Raymond. Performer

Harvuot, Clifford, 1912-1990. Performer

Christopher, Russell. Performer

Mehta, Zubin. Conductor

Cross, Milton, 1897-1975. Commentator

Weaver, William, 1923-2013, commentator.

Downes, Edward, 1911- Commentator

Ducloux, Walter. Commentator

Levarie, Siegmund, 1914- Commentator

Randall, Tony. Commentator

Schick, George, 1908-1985. 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 Broadcast (Radio program)

Research Call Number

*LTCM 261 (F) Production notes on file.

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