Un ballo in maschera : radio broadcast, 1955-01-22 [sound recording] : opera in three acts / music by Giuseppe Verdi ; libretto by Antonio Somma after the play by Scribe.
side 1. Introduction and synopsis of act 1 (Milton Cross) ; Opera news on the air (Boris Goldovsky, host, with Dorothy Kirsten and Giovanni Martinelli) ; Synopsis of act 2 (Cross) ; Texaco's opera quiz (Robert Lawrence, host, with Walter Ducloux, Jay Harrison and Max Rudolf) -- side 2. Synopsis of act 3 (Cross) -- side 3. Prelude ; Act 1 through "Di' tu se fedele" -- side 4. Act 1 concluded ; Act 2 -- side 5. Act 3 scene 1 -- side 6. Act 3 concluded ; Closing remarks (Cross).
Call number
*LT-10 6081
Note
Title from house program ; series title from Opera news.
Durations: 0:52:43 (synopses and features) ; 2:29:30 (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)
Richard Tucker (Riccardo) ; Josef Metternich (Renato) ; Zinka Milanov (Amelia) ; Jean Madeira (Ulrica) ; Roberta Peters (Oscar) ; Calvin Marsh (Silvano) ; Nicola Moscona (Samuel) ; Norman Scott (Tom) ; James McCracken (A judge) ; Charles Anthony (Amelia's servant) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; Dimitri Mitropoulos, conductor ; Milton Cross, broadcast announcer.
Event (note)
Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Jan. 22, 1955.
Reproduction (note)
Service copy (3 sound cassettes : analog, mono., Dolby-B processed) available in: *LTCM 415 (F)
Language (note)
Sung in Italian.
Author
Verdi, Giuseppe, 1813-1901.
Title
Un ballo in maschera : radio broadcast, 1955-01-22 [sound recording] : opera in three acts / music by Giuseppe Verdi ; libretto by Antonio Somma after the play by Scribe.
Playing time
005243 022930
Series
Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Jan. 22, 1955]
Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Jan. 22, 1955]
Cast
Richard Tucker (Riccardo) ; Josef Metternich (Renato) ; Zinka Milanov (Amelia) ; Jean Madeira (Ulrica) ; Roberta Peters (Oscar) ; Calvin Marsh (Silvano) ; Nicola Moscona (Samuel) ; Norman Scott (Tom) ; James McCracken (A judge) ; Charles Anthony (Amelia's servant) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; Dimitri Mitropoulos, conductor ; Milton Cross, broadcast announcer.
Indexed in:
Opera news, v. 19, no. 11 (Jan. 17, 1955).
Event
Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Jan. 22, 1955.
Original version
Preservation tape, recorded at NYPL in Apr. 1990, from aluminum-based acetates (8 sound discs : analog, 33 1/3 rpm, mono. ; 16 in.) lent by the Metropolitan Opera.
Reproduction
Service copy (3 sound cassettes : analog, mono., Dolby-B processed) available in: *LTCM 415 (F)
Language
Sung in Italian.
Added author
Somma, Antonio, 1809-1864. Librettist
Scribe, Eugène, 1791-1861. Gustave III.
Tucker, Richard, 1913-1975. Performer
Metternich, Josef. Performer
Milanov, Zinka. Performer
Madeira, Jean. Performer
Peters, Roberta, 1930-2017. Performer
Marsh, Calvin. Performer
Moscona, Nicola. Performer
Scott, Norman, 1921-1968. Performer
McCracken, James, 1926- Performer
Anthony, Charles, 1929-2012. Performer
Mitropoulos, Dimitri, 1896-1960. Conductor
Cross, Milton, 1897-1975. Commentator
Goldovsky, Boris. Commentator
Kirsten, Dorothy, 1910-1992. Commentator
Martinelli, Giovanni, 1885-1969. Commentator
Lawrence, Robert, 1912- Commentator
Ducloux, Walter. Commentator
Harrison, Jay. Commentator
Rudolf, Max, 1902-1995. 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 6081 Master tape. Request cassette service copy in *LTCM 415 (F)
*LTCM 415 (F) Cassette service copy; production notes on file. Master tape in *LT-10 6081.