Così fan tutte [sound recording] : opera in two acts / music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ; libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte ; new English version by Ruth and Thomas P. Martin.
side 1. Introduction and synopsis of act 1 (Milton Cross) ; Texaco's opera quiz (Robert Lawrence, host, with Mary Ellis Peltz, Deems Taylor, Walter Ducloux and Lorenzo Alvary) ; Synopsis of act 2 (Cross) -- side 2. [blank] -- side 3. Overture ; Act 1 through "Smanie implacabili" -- side 4. Act 1 concluded -- side 5. Act 2 through "Donne mie, la fate a tanti" -- side 6. Act 2 concluded ; Closing remarks (Cross).
Call number
*LT-10 5556
Note
Title from house program ; series title from Opera news.
Durations: 0:33:59 (synopses and features) ; 2:42:01 (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)
Eleanor Steber (Fiordiligi) ; Blanche Thebom (Dorabella) ; Patrice Munsel (Despina) ; Richard Tucker (Ferrando) ; Frank Guarrera (Guglielmo) ; John Brownlee (Don Alfonso) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; Fritz Stiedry, conductor ; Milton Cross, broadcast announcer.
Event (note)
Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Apr. 4, 1954.
Reproduction (note)
Service copy (3 sound cassettes : analog, mono., Dolby-B processed) available in: *LTCM 406 (F)
Language (note)
Sung in English.
Author
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791.
Title
Così fan tutte [sound recording] : opera in two acts / music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ; libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte ; new English version by Ruth and Thomas P. Martin.
Playing time
003359 024201
Series
Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Apr. 4, 1954]
Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Apr. 4, 1954]
Cast
Eleanor Steber (Fiordiligi) ; Blanche Thebom (Dorabella) ; Patrice Munsel (Despina) ; Richard Tucker (Ferrando) ; Frank Guarrera (Guglielmo) ; John Brownlee (Don Alfonso) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; Fritz Stiedry, conductor ; Milton Cross, broadcast announcer.
Original version
Preservation tape, recorded at NYPL in Feb. 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. 21 (Mar. 29, 1954).
Event
Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Apr. 4, 1954.
Reproduction
Service copy (3 sound cassettes : analog, mono., Dolby-B processed) available in: *LTCM 406 (F)
Language
Sung in English.
Added author
Da Ponte, Lorenzo, 1749-1838. Librettist
Martin, Ruth Berenice Kelley, 1914- Librettist
Martin, Thomas Philipp, 1909- Librettist
Steber, Eleanor. Performer
Thebom, Blanche. Performer
Munsel, Patrice, 1925- Performer
Tucker, Richard, 1913-1975. Performer
Guarrera, Frank, 1923- Performer
Brownlee, John, 1901-1969. Performer
Stiedry, Fritz. Conductor
Cross, Milton, 1897-1975. Commentator
Lawrence, Robert, 1912-1981, commentator.
Peltz, Mary Ellis, 1896-1981. Commentator
Taylor, Deems, 1885-1966. Commentator
Ducloux, Walter. Commentator
Alvary, Lorenzo, 1909-1996, commentator.
Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.)
Added title
Texaco's opera quiz (Radio program)
Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (Radio program)
Research call number
*LT-10 5556 Master tape. Request cassette service copy in *LTCM 406 (F)
*LTCM 406 (F) Cassette service copy; production notes on file. Master tape in *LT-10 5556.