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Norma opera in four acts

Title: Norma [sound recording] : opera in four acts / music by Vincenzo Bellini ; libretto by Felice Romani.
Author: Bellini, Vincenzo, 1801-1835.

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Description

4 sound tape reels (216 min.) : analog, 7 1/2 ips, 2 track, mono.; 10 in.

Series Statement

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Mar. 27, 1954]

Uniform Title

Norma
Third intermission feature (Radio program)
Opera news on the air (Radio program)
Texaco's opera quiz (Radio program)
Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (Radio program)

Alternative Title

Norma

Subjects

Genre/Form

Live sound recordings.

Note

Title from house program ; series title from Opera news.
Durations: 1:04:43 (synopses and features) ; 2:31:21 (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)

Cesare Siepi (Oroveso) ; Zinka Milanov (Norma) ; Gino Penno (Pollione) ; Blanche Thebom (Adalgisa) ; Maria Leone (Clotilde) ; Paul Franke (Flavio) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; Fausto Cleva, conductor ; Milton Cross, broadcast announcer.

Event (note)

Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Mar. 27, 1954.

Reproduction (note)

Service copy (3 sound cassettes : analog, mono., Dolby-B processed) available in: *LTCM 404 (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 Rosa Ponselle) ; Synopsis of act 2 (Cross) ; Texaco's opera quiz (Robert Lawrence, host, with Mary Ellis Peltz, George Marek and Reginald Allen) ; Synopsis of act 3 (Cross) -- side 2. Third intermission feature (Rudolf Bing) ; George A. Sloan ; Synopsis of act 4 (Cross) -- side 3. Overture ; Act 1 through "Deh! proteggimi O Dio!" -- side 4. Act 1 concluded ; Act 2 -- side 5. Act 3 -- side 6. Act 4 ; Closing remarks (Cross).

Call Number

*LT-10 5554

OCLC

NYPG90-R308

Author

Bellini, Vincenzo, 1801-1835.

Title

Norma [sound recording] : opera in four acts / music by Vincenzo Bellini ; libretto by Felice Romani.

Playing Time

010443 023121

Series

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Mar. 27, 1954]

Cast

Cesare Siepi (Oroveso) ; Zinka Milanov (Norma) ; Gino Penno (Pollione) ; Blanche Thebom (Adalgisa) ; Maria Leone (Clotilde) ; Paul Franke (Flavio) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; Fausto Cleva, conductor ; Milton Cross, broadcast announcer.

Indexed In:

Opera news, v. 18, no. 20 (Mar. 22, 1954).

Event

Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Mar. 27, 1954.

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.

Reproduction

Service copy (3 sound cassettes : analog, mono., Dolby-B processed) available in: *LTCM 404 (F)

Language

Sung in Italian.

Added Author

Romani, Felice, 1788-1865. Librettist

Siepi, Cesare. Performer

Milanov, Zinka. Performer

Penno, Gino. Performer

Thebom, Blanche. Performer

Leone, Maria (Soprano) Performer

Franke, Paul, 1917-2011. Performer

Cleva, Fausto. Conductor

Cross, Milton, 1897-1975. Commentator

Bing, Rudolf, 1902-1997. Commentator

Sloan, George A. Commentator

Goldovsky, Boris. Commentator

Ponselle, Rosa, 1897-1981. Commentator

Lawrence, Robert, 1912- Commentator

Peltz, Mary Ellis, 1896-1981. Commentator

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

Allen, Reginald. Commentator

Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.)

Added Title

Third intermission feature (Radio program)

Opera news on the air (Radio program)

Texaco's opera quiz (Radio program)

Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (Radio program)

Research Call Number

*LT-10 5554 Master tape. Request cassette service copy in *LTCM 404 (F)

*LTCM 404 (F) Cassette service copy; production notes on file. Master tape in *LT-10 5554.

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