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Manon Lescaut opera in four acts

Title: Manon Lescaut [sound recording] : opera in four acts / music by Giacomo Puccini ; book by Messrs. Praga, Oliva, Leoncavallo, Illica, Giacosa and Ricordi, after the novel by Abbé Prévost.
Author: Puccini, Giacomo, 1858-1924.

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Description

3 sound cassettes (203 min.) : analog, mono., Dolby-B processed.

Series Statement

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Mar. 23, 1968]

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

Genre/Form

Live sound recordings.

Note

Titles from Opera news.
Durations: 1:20:00 (synopses and features) ; 2:03:00 (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

Performer (note)

Renata Tebaldi (Manon Lescaut) ; John Alexander (Chevalier Des Grieux) ; Frank Guarrera (Lescaut) ; Raymond Michalski (Geronte de Ravoir) ; Charles Anthony (Edmondo) ; Marcia Baldwin (Singer) ; Cecelia Entner, Helen McIlhenny, Ella Eure, Alexandra Jones (Madrigal musicians) ; Russell Christopher (Innkeeper) ; Andrea Velis (Dancing master) ; Robert Goodloe (Sergeant of archers) ; Robert Nagy (Lamplighter) ; Gene Boucher (Ship's captain) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; Francesco Molinari-Pradelli, conductor ; Milton Cross, broadcast announcer.

Event (note)

Originally broadcast live from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Mar. 23, 1968.

Language (note)

Sung in Italian.

Contents

side 1. Introduction and synopsis of act 1 (Milton Cross) ; Opera news on the air (John Gutman discusses Auber's "Manon Lescaut" (with Metropolitan Opera Studio artists Catherine Christensen, Patricia Wise, Dan Marek, Gene Boucher and, at the piano, George Schick)) ; Synopsis of act 2 (Cross) ; Texaco's opera quiz (Edward Downes, host, with Boris Goldovsky, Allen Sven Oxenburg, Julius Rudel and George Schick) -- side 2. Opera quiz, conclusion ; Synopsis of act 3 ; Biographies in music (Francis Robinson recalls Elisabeth Schumann) ; Synopsis of act 4 (Cross) -- side 3. Act 1 -- side 4. Act 2 -- side 5. Intermezzo ; Act 3 -- side 6. Act 4 ; Closing remarks (Cross).

Call Number

*LTCM 282 (F)

OCLC

NYPG87-R284

Author

Puccini, Giacomo, 1858-1924.

Title

Manon Lescaut [sound recording] : opera in four acts / music by Giacomo Puccini ; book by Messrs. Praga, Oliva, Leoncavallo, Illica, Giacosa and Ricordi, after the novel by Abbé Prévost.

Playing Time

012000 020300

Series

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Mar. 23, 1968]

Cast

Renata Tebaldi (Manon Lescaut) ; John Alexander (Chevalier Des Grieux) ; Frank Guarrera (Lescaut) ; Raymond Michalski (Geronte de Ravoir) ; Charles Anthony (Edmondo) ; Marcia Baldwin (Singer) ; Cecelia Entner, Helen McIlhenny, Ella Eure, Alexandra Jones (Madrigal musicians) ; Russell Christopher (Innkeeper) ; Andrea Velis (Dancing master) ; Robert Goodloe (Sergeant of archers) ; Robert Nagy (Lamplighter) ; Gene Boucher (Ship's captain) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; Francesco Molinari-Pradelli, conductor ; Milton Cross, broadcast announcer.

Original Version

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

Indexed In:

Opera news, v. 32, no. 21 (Mar. 23, 1968).

Event

Originally broadcast live from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Mar. 23, 1968.

Language

Sung in Italian.

Added Author

Praga, Marco, 1862-1929. Librettist

Oliva, Domenico. Librettist

Leoncavallo, Ruggiero, 1858-1919. Librettist

Illica, Luigi, 1857-1919. Librettist

Giacosa, Giuseppe, 1847-1906. Librettist

Ricordi, Giulio, 1840-1912. Librettist

Prévost, abbé, 1697-1763. Manon Lescaut.

Auber, D. F. E. (Daniel François Esprit), 1782-1871. Manon Lescaut. Selections; arranged.

Tebaldi, Renata. Performer

Alexander, John, 1923-1990. Performer

Guarrera, Frank, 1923- Performer

Michalski, Raymond. Performer

Anthony, Charles, 1929-2012. Performer

Baldwin, Marcia. Performer

Entner, Cecelia. Performer

McIlhenny, Helen. Performer

Eure, Ella. Performer

Jones, Alexandra (Soprano) Performer

Christopher, Russell. Performer

Velis, Andrea, 1932-1994. Performer

Goodloe, Robert. Performer

Nagy, Robert, 1929- Performer

Boucher, Gene. Performer

Molinari-Pradelli, Francesco. Conductor

Cross, Milton, 1897-1975. Commentator

Gutman, John. Commentator

Christensen, Catherine. Performer

Wise, Patricia. Performer

Marek, Dan. Performer

Schick, George, 1908-1985. Performer. Commentator

Downes, Edward, 1911- Commentator

Goldovsky, Boris. Commentator

Oxenburg, Allen Sven. Commentator

Rudel, Julius. 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 282 (F) Production notes in listening room.

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