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Nabucco opera in three acts

Title: Nabucco [sound recording] : opera in three acts / Giuseppe Verdi ; libretto by Temistocle Solera.
Author: Verdi, Giuseppe, 1813-1901.

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Description

on 5 sides of 3 sound cassettes (198 min.) : analog, mono., Dolby-B processed.

Series Statement

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of \Dec. 3, 1960\601203\]

Uniform Title

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

Alternative Title

Nabucco

Subject

Operas

Note

Title from house program ; series title from Opera news.
Durations: 1:25:10 (synopses and features) ; 1:53:00 (opera).
Production notes and official cast list (6 p.) on file in the Rodgers and Hammerstein listening room.

Indexed In (note)

Opera news

Performer (note)

Cornell MacNeil (Nabucco) ; Leonie Rysanek (Abigaille) ; Rosalind Elias (Fenena) ; Eugenio Fernandi (Ismaele) ; Cesare Siepi (Zaccaria) ; Bonaldo Giaiotti (High Priest) ; Paul Franke (Abdallo) ; Carlotta Ordassy (Anna) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; Thomas Schippers, conductor ; Milton Cross, broadcast announcer.

Event (note)

Originally recorded in the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Dec. 3, 1960.

Language (note)

Sung in Italian.

Contents

side 1. Introduction and season's greetings (Milton Cross, Rudolf Bing and principals from day's cast) ; Synopsis of act 1 (Milton Cross) ; Opera news on the air (Boris Goldovsky analyzes Nabucco) ; Synopsis of act 2 (Cross) -- side 2. Texaco's opera quiz (Edward Downes, Walter Slezak, Mary Ellis Peltz, Jay Harrison and Terry McEwen) ; Synopsis of act 3 (Cross) ; Closing remarks (Cross) -- side 3. Act 1 -- side 4. Act 2 -- side 5. Act 3.

Call Number

*LTCM 129 (F)

OCLC

NYPG85-R329

Author

Verdi, Giuseppe, 1813-1901.

Title

Nabucco [sound recording] : opera in three acts / Giuseppe Verdi ; libretto by Temistocle Solera.

Playing Time

012510 015300

Series

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of \Dec. 3, 1960\601203\]

Cast

Cornell MacNeil (Nabucco) ; Leonie Rysanek (Abigaille) ; Rosalind Elias (Fenena) ; Eugenio Fernandi (Ismaele) ; Cesare Siepi (Zaccaria) ; Bonaldo Giaiotti (High Priest) ; Paul Franke (Abdallo) ; Carlotta Ordassy (Anna) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; Thomas Schippers, conductor ; Milton Cross, broadcast announcer.

Indexed In:

Opera news, v. 25, no. 4 (Dec. 3, 1960).

Event

Originally recorded in the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Dec. 3, 1960.

Original Version

Re-recorded at NYPL, Apr., 1985, from borrowed masters (3 sound tape reels : 7 1/2 ips, 1 track, mono. ; 10 in.).

Language

Sung in Italian.

Added Author

Solera, Temistocle, 1815-1878. Librettist

MacNeil, Cornell, 1922- Performer

Rysanek, Leonie. Performer

Elias, Rosalind. Performer

Fernandi, Eugenio. Performer

Siepi, Cesare. Performer

Giaiotti, Bonaldo. Performer

Franke, Paul, 1917-2011. Performer

Ordassy, Carlotta. Performer

Schippers, Thomas. Conductor

Cross, Milton, 1897-1975. Commentator

Goldovsky, Boris. Commentator

Downes, Edward, 1911- Commentator

Slezak, Walter, 1902- Commentator

Peltz, Mary Ellis, 1896-1981. Commentator

Harrison Jay. Commentator

McEwen, Terry. Commentator

Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.) Performer

Added Title

Opera news on the air (Radio program)

Texaco's opera quiz (Radio program)

Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (Radio program)

Research Call Number

*LTCM 129 (F) \(Production notes filed in listening room.)

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