Lucia di Lammermoor [sound recording] : opera in three acts / music by Gaetano Donizetti ; libretto by Salvatore Cammarano, based on Walter Scott's novel "The Bride of Lammermoor".
side 1. Introduction and synopsis of act 1 (Milton Cross) ; Opera news on the air (Boris Goldovsky, host, with Ezio Pinza and John Briggs) ; Synopsis of act 2 (Cross) ; Texaco's opera quiz (Robert Lawrence, host, with Robert Bagar, George Marek and A. Walter Kramer) ; Synopsis of act 3 (Cross) -- side 2. Act 1 -- side 3. Act 2 ; Act 3 through "Dalle stanze, ove Lucia" -- side 4. Act 3 concluded ; Broadcast concluded.
Call number
*LT-10 4902
Note
Title from house program ; series title from Opera news.
Durations: 0:42:38 (synopses and features) ; 2:05:27 (opera).
Production notes and official cast list (3 p.) on file in the Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound.
Indexed in (note)
Opera news
Performer (note)
Lily Pons (Lucia) ; Giuseppe Valdengo (Enrico) ; Ferruccio Tagliavini (Edgardo) ; Thelma Votipka (Alisa) ; Norman Scott (Raimondo) ; Gabor Carelli (Arturo) ; Paul Franke (Normanno) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; Fausto Cleva, conductor ; Milton Cross, broadcast announcer.
Event (note)
Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Dec. 29, 1951.
Reproduction (note)
Service copy (2 sound cassettes : analog, mono., Dolby-B processed) available in: *LTCM 353 (F)
Language (note)
Sung in Italian.
Author
Donizetti, Gaetano, 1797-1848.
Title
Lucia di Lammermoor [sound recording] : opera in three acts / music by Gaetano Donizetti ; libretto by Salvatore Cammarano, based on Walter Scott's novel "The Bride of Lammermoor".
Playing time
004238 020527
Series
Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Dec. 29, 1951]
Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Dec. 29, 1951]
Cast
Lily Pons (Lucia) ; Giuseppe Valdengo (Enrico) ; Ferruccio Tagliavini (Edgardo) ; Thelma Votipka (Alisa) ; Norman Scott (Raimondo) ; Gabor Carelli (Arturo) ; Paul Franke (Normanno) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; Fausto Cleva, conductor ; Milton Cross, broadcast announcer.
Original version
Preservation tape, recorded at NYPL in May. 1989, from aluminum-based acetates (6 sound discs : analog, 33 1/3 rpm, mono. ; 16 in.) lent by the Metropolitan Opera.
Indexed in:
Opera news, v. 16, no. 8 (Dec. 24, 1951).
Event
Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Dec. 29, 1951.
Reproduction
Service copy (2 sound cassettes : analog, mono., Dolby-B processed) available in: *LTCM 353 (F)
Language
Sung in Italian.
Added author
Cammarano, Salvatore, 1801-1852. Librettist
Scott, Walter, 1771-1832. Bride of Lammermoor.
Pons, Lily, 1898-1976. Performer
Valdengo, Giuseppe, 1914- Performer
Tagliavini, Ferruccio, 1913- Performer
Votipka, Thelma. Performer
Scott, Norman, 1921-1968. Performer
Carelli, Gabor. Performer
Franke, Paul, 1917-2011. Performer
Cleva, Fausto. Conductor
Cross, Milton, 1897-1975. Commentator
Goldovsky, Boris. Commentator
Pinza, Ezio. Commentator
Briggs, John, 1916- Commentator
Lawrence, Robert, 1912- Commentator
Bagar, Robert C. Commentator
Marek, George R. (George Richard), 1902-1987. Commentator
Kramer, A. Walter (Arthur Walter), 1890-1969. Commentator
Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.)
Added title
Opera news on the air (Radio program)
Texaco's opera quiz (Radio program)
Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (Radio program)
Research call number
*LT-10 4902 Master tape. Request cassette service copy in *LTCM 353 (F)
*LTCM 353 (F) Cassette service copy; production notes on file. Master tape in *LT-10 4902.