Research Catalog

Title

Cosi fan tutte [sound recording] : opera in two acts / music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ; libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte.

Author

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Allen, Peter, 1920-2016.
• Da Ponte, Lorenzo, 1749-1838.
• Downes, Edward, 1911-
• Hamari, Julia.
• Holloway, David, 1942-
• Hubay, Alfred.
• Jacobson, Robert M.
• MacNeil, Cornell, 1922-
• Masiello, Alberta.
• McCracken, James, 1926-
• Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.)
• Metropolitan Opera Radio Broadcast collection.
• Murray, Ann, 1949-
• Rendall, David.
• Tate, Jeffrey.
• Vaness, Carol.

Description

3 sound cassettes (226 min.) : stereo, Dolby-B processed.

Series Statement

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Dec. 22, 1984]

Uniform Title

• Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (Radio program)
• Texaco's opera quiz (Radio program)

Subject

• Operas

Note

• Title from house program ; series title from Opera news.
• Durations: 0:31:43 (synopses and features) ; 3:15:38 (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)

• David Rendall (Ferrando) ; David Holloway (Guglielmo) ; Cornell MacNeil (Don Alfonso) ; Carol Vaness (Fiordiligi) ; Ann Murray (Dorabella) ; Julia Hamari (Despina) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; Jeffrey Tate, conductor ; Peter Allen, broadcast announcer.

Event (note)

• Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Dec. 22, 1984.

Reproduction (note)

• Service copy (3 sound cassettes : stereo, Dolby-B processed) available in: *LTCM 458 (F)

Language (note)

• Sung in Italian.

Contents

side 1. Introduction and synopsis of act 1 (Peter Allen) ; Texaco's opera quiz (Edward Downes, host, with Alberta Masiello, Alfred Hubay and Robert Jacobson) ; James McCracken ; Synopsis of act 2 (Allen) -- side 2. Overture ; Act 1 through "Soave sia il vento" -- side 3. "Ah Scostati" through "Un'aura amorosa" -- side 4. Act 1 concluded ; Act 2 through "La mano a me date" -- side 5. "Il core vi dono, bell'idol mio" through "Fra gli amplessi" -- side 6. Act 2 concluded ; Closing remarks (Allen).

Call Number

*LTCM 458 (F)

Author

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791.

Title

Cosi fan tutte [sound recording] : opera in two acts / music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ; libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte.

Playing Time

003143 031538

Series

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Dec. 22, 1984]

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Dec. 22, 1984]

Cast

David Rendall (Ferrando) ; David Holloway (Guglielmo) ; Cornell MacNeil (Don Alfonso) ; Carol Vaness (Fiordiligi) ; Ann Murray (Dorabella) ; Julia Hamari (Despina) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; Jeffrey Tate, conductor ; Peter Allen, broadcast announcer.

Indexed In:

Opera news, v. 49, no. 7 (Dec. 22, 1984).

Event

Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Dec. 22, 1984.

Original Version

Re-recorded at NYPL in Apr. 1991, from borrowed masters (3 sound tape reels : 7 1/2 ips, 2 track, stereo ; 10 in.) lent by the Metropolitan Opera.

Reproduction

Service copy (3 sound cassettes : stereo, Dolby-B processed) available in: *LTCM 458 (F)

Language

Sung in Italian.

Added Author

Da Ponte, Lorenzo, 1749-1838. Librettist

Rendall, David. Performer

Holloway, David, 1942- Performer

MacNeil, Cornell, 1922- Performer

Vaness, Carol. Performer

Murray, Ann, 1949- Performer

Hamari, Julia. Performer

Tate, Jeffrey. Conductor

Allen, Peter, 1920-2016. Commentator

McCracken, James, 1926- Commentator

Downes, Edward, 1911- Commentator

Masiello, Alberta. Commentator

Hubay, Alfred. Commentator

Jacobson, Robert M. Commentator

Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.)

Added Title

Texaco's opera quiz (Radio program)

Metropolitan Opera Radio Broadcast collection.

Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (Radio program)

Research Call Number

*LTCM 458 (F) Production notes on file.