side 1. Introduction (Milton Cross, Rudolf Bing, Victoria de los Angeles, Nicola Rossi-Lemeni, Robert Merrill and Pierre Monteux) ; Synopsis of act 1 (Cross) ; Opera news on the air (Boris Goldovsky, host, with Nadine Conner and Mark Conley) ; Synopsis of act 2 (Cross) ; Texaco's opera quiz (Robert Lawrence, host, with Deems Taylor, George Marek and Walter Ducloux) -- side 2. Synopsis of act 3 (Cross) ; The Metropolitan at work (Rudolf Bing, John Gutman and Peter Brook) ; Synopsis of act 4 (Cross) -- side 3. Introduction ; Act 1 through "De l'enfer qui vient!" -- side 4. Act 1 concluded ; Act 2 through "Il se fait tard" -- side 5. Act 2 concluded ; Act 3 -- side 6. Act 4 ; Closing remarks (Cross).
Call number
*LT-10 4937
Language
French
Note
Title from house program ; series title from Opera news.
Durations: 1:02:57 (synopses and features) ; 2:53:03 (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)
Eugene Conley (Faust) ; Victoria de los Angeles (Marguerite) ; Nicola Rossi-Lemeni (Mephistopheles) ; Robert Merrill (Valentin) ; Mildred Miller (Siebel) ; Thelma Votipka (Marthe) ; Lawrence Davidson (Wagner) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; Pierre Monteux, conductor ; Milton Cross, broadcast announcer.
Event (note)
Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Dec. 5, 1953.
Reproduction (note)
Service copy (4 sound cassettes : analog, mono., Dolby-B processed) available in: *LTCM 388 (F)
Language (note)
Sung in French.
Author
Gounod, Charles, 1818-1893.
Playing time
010257 025303
Original version
Preservation tape, recorded at NYPL in Jan. 1990, from aluminum-based acetates (8 sound discs : analog, 33 1/3 rpm, mono. ; 16 in.) lent by the Metropolitan Opera.