side 1. Introduction and synopsis of act 1 (Milton Cross) ; Opera news on the air (Boris Goldovsky, host, with Margarete Matzenauer and Robert Merrill) ; Synopsis of act 2 (Cross) ; Texaco's opera quiz (Robert Lawrence, host, with Walter Ducloux, George Marek and Robert Bagar) -- side 2. Opera quiz concluded ; Synopsis of act 3 (Cross) ; Metropolitan Opera mailbox (Rudolf Bing, host) ; Synopsis of act 4 (Cross) -- side 3. Act 1 -- side 4. Act 2 -- side 5. Act 3 -- side 6. Act 4 ; Broadcast concluded.
Call number
*LT-10 4912
Note
Title from house program ; series title from Opera news.
Durations: 1:02:23 (synopses and features) ; 2:38:54 (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)
Lubomir Vichegonov (The king) ; Nell Rankin (Amneris) ; Zinka Milanov (Aïda) ; Mario Del Monaco (Radames) ; Leonard Warren (Amonasro) ; Jerome Hines (Ramfis) ; Thomas Hayward (A messenger) ; Lucine Amara (A priestess) ; 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. 8, 1952.
Reproduction (note)
Service copy (3 sound cassettes : analog, mono., Dolby-B processed) available in: *LTCM 363 (F)
Language (note)
Sung in Italian.
Author
Verdi, Giuseppe, 1813-1901.
Title
Aïda : radio broadcast, 1952-03-08 [sound recording] : opera in four acts / music by Giuseppe Verdi ; libretto by A. Ghislanzoni.
Playing time
010223 023854
Series
Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Mar. 8, 1952]
Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Mar. 8, 1952]
Cast
Lubomir Vichegonov (The king) ; Nell Rankin (Amneris) ; Zinka Milanov (Aïda) ; Mario Del Monaco (Radames) ; Leonard Warren (Amonasro) ; Jerome Hines (Ramfis) ; Thomas Hayward (A messenger) ; Lucine Amara (A priestess) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; Fausto Cleva, conductor ; Milton Cross, broadcast announcer.
Indexed in:
Opera news, v. 16, no. 18 (Mar. 3, 1952).
Event
Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Mar. 8, 1952.
Original version
Preservation tape, recorded at NYPL in June 1989, 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 363 (F)
Language
Sung in Italian.
Added author
Ghislanzoni, Antonio, 1824-1893. Librettist
Vichegonov, Lubomir. Performer
Rankin, Nell. Performer
Milanov, Zinka. Performer
Del Monaco, Mario, 1915-1982, singer.
Warren, Leonard, 1911-1960. Performer
Hines, Jerome, 1921-2003, singer.
Hayward, Thomas, 1917-1995, singer.
Amara, Lucine. Performer
Cleva, Fausto. Conductor
Cross, Milton, 1897-1975. Commentator
Goldovsky, Boris. Commentator
Matzenauer, Margarete, 1881-1963. Commentator
Merrill, Robert, 1917-2004, commentator.
Lawrence, Robert, 1912-1981, commentator.
Ducloux, Walter. Commentator
Marek, George R. (George Richard), 1902-1987. Commentator
Bagar, Robert C. Commentator
Bing, Rudolf, 1902-1997. Commentator
Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.)
Added title
Opera news on the air (Radio program)
Texaco's opera quiz (Radio program)
Metropolitan Opera mailbox (Radio program)
Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (Radio program)
Research call number
*LT-10 4912 Master tape. Request cassette service copy in *LTCM 363 (F)
*LTCM 363 (F) Cassette service copy; production notes on file. Master tape in *LT-10 4912.