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La forza del destino : [sound recording] : opera in three acts

Title: La forza del destino : radio broadcast, 1954-03-20 [sound recording] : opera in three acts / music by Giuseppe Verdi ; libretto by F.M. Piave.
Author: Verdi, Giuseppe, 1813-1901.
Publication: Mar. 20, 1954.

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Description

4 sound tape reels (201 min.) : analog, 7 1/2 ips, 2 track, mono.; 10 in.

Series Statement

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of] Mar. 20, 1954
Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of] Mar. 20, 1954.

Uniform Title

Forza del destino
Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (Radio program)
Opera news on the air (Radio program)
Texaco's opera quiz (Radio program)

Alternative Title

Forza del destino

Subject

Operas

Note

Title from house program ; series title from Opera news.
Durations: 0:45:00 (synopses and features) ; 2:36:08 (opera).
Production notes and official cast list (4 p.) on file in the Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound.

Indexed In (note)

Opera news,

Performer (note)

Lubomir Vichegonov (The marquis) ; Zinka Milanov (Leonora) ; Leonard Warren (Don Carlo) ; Gino Penno (Don Alvaro) ; Jerome Hines (Padre Guardiano) ; Gerhard Pechner (Fra Melitone) ; Jean Madeira (Preziosilla) ; Thelma Votipka (Curra) ; Paul Franke (Trabucco) ; George Cehanovsky (A surgeon) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; Fritz Stiedry, conductor ; Milton Cross, broadcast announcer.

Event (note)

Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Mar. 20, 1954.

Reproduction (note)

Service copy (3 sound cassettes : analog, mono., Dolby-B processed) available in: *LTCM 403 (F)

Language (note)

Sung in Italian.

Contents

side 1. Introduction and synopsis of act 1 (Milton Cross) ; Opera news on the air (Boris Goldovsky, host, with Martha Lipton and Paul Franke) ; Synopsis of act 2 (Cross) ; Texaco's opera quiz (Robert Lawrence, host, with Sigmund Spaeth, Eric Leinsdorf and George Marek) ; Synopsis of act 3 (Cross) -- side 2 [blank] -- side 3. Act 1 through "Più tranquilla l'alma sento" -- side 4. Act 1 concluded ; Act 2 through "Urna fatale del mio destino" -- side 5. Act 2 concluded -- side 6. Act 3 ; Closing remarks (Cross)

Call Number

*LTCM 403 (F)

Author

Verdi, Giuseppe, 1813-1901.

Title

La forza del destino : radio broadcast, 1954-03-20 [sound recording] : opera in three acts / music by Giuseppe Verdi ; libretto by F.M. Piave.

Imprint

Mar. 20, 1954.

Playing Time

004500 023608

Series

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of] Mar. 20, 1954

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of] Mar. 20, 1954.

Cast

Lubomir Vichegonov (The marquis) ; Zinka Milanov (Leonora) ; Leonard Warren (Don Carlo) ; Gino Penno (Don Alvaro) ; Jerome Hines (Padre Guardiano) ; Gerhard Pechner (Fra Melitone) ; Jean Madeira (Preziosilla) ; Thelma Votipka (Curra) ; Paul Franke (Trabucco) ; George Cehanovsky (A surgeon) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; Fritz Stiedry, conductor ; Milton Cross, broadcast announcer.

Original Version

Preservation tape, recorded at NYPL in Mar. 1990, from aluminum-based acetates (8 sound discs : analog, 33 1/3 rpm, mono. ; 16 in.) lent by the Metropolitan Opera.

Indexed In:

Opera news, v. 18, no. 19 (Mar. 15, 1954).

Event

Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Mar. 20, 1954.

Reproduction

Service copy (3 sound cassettes : analog, mono., Dolby-B processed) available in: *LTCM 403 (F)

Language

Sung in Italian.

Added Author

Piave, Francesco Maria, 1810-1876. Librettist

Vichegonov, Lubomir. Performer

Milanov, Zinka. Performer

Warren, Leonard, 1911-1960. Performer

Penno, Gino. Performer

Hines, Jerome, 1921- Performer

Pechner, Gerhard. Performer

Madeira, Jean. Performer

Votipka, Thelma. Performer

Franke, Paul, 1917-2011. Performer

Cehanovsky, George, 1892-1986.

Stiedry, Fritz. Conductor

Cross, Milton, 1897-1975. Commentator

Goldovsky, Boris. Commentator

Lipton, Martha. Commentator

Franke, Paul, 1917-2011. Commentator

Lawrence, Robert, 1912- Commentator

Spaeth, Sigmund, 1885-1965. Commentator

Leinsdorf, Erich, 1912-1993. Commentator

Marek, George R. (George Richard), 1902-1987. 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)

Metropolitan Opera Radio Broadcast collection.

Research Call Number

*LTCM 403 (F) [Cassette service copy] Production notes on file. Master tape in *LT-10 5553.

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