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Tosca [sound recording] : opera in three acts...

Title: Tosca [sound recording] : opera in three acts... / Giacomo Puccini ; libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa, founded on La Tosca, play by Victorien Sardou.
Author: Puccini, Giacomo, 1858-1924.

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Not available - Please for assistance.	Audio	Use in library	*LTCM 205 (F)	Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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Description

on 5 sides of 3 sound cassettes (184 min.) : analog, mono., Dolby-B processed.

Series Statement

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of \Apr. 18, 1964\640418\]

Uniform Title

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

Subject

Operas

Note

Title from Opera news.
Durations: 1:13:00 (synopses and features) ; 1:51:25 (opera).
Production notes and official cast list (6 p.) on file in the Rodgers & Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound.

Indexed In (note)

Opera news,

Performer (note)

Birgit Nilsson (Tosca) ; Franco Corelli (Cavaradossi) ; George London (Scarpia) ; Norman Scott (Angelotti) ; Fernando Corena (Sacristan) ; Paul Franke (Spoletta) ; Calvin Marsh (Sciarrone) ; Stuart Fischer (Shepherd boy) ; Robert Patterson (Jailer) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; Fausto Cleva, conductor ; Milton Cross, broadcast announcer.

Event (note)

Originally broadcast live from the Music Hall, Boston, Apr. 18, 1964.

Language (note)

Sung in Italian.

Contents

side 1. Introduction and synopsis of act 1 (Milton Cross) ; Texaco's opera quiz (Edward Downes, host, with Mary Ellis Peltz, Boris Goldovsky, Terry McEwen and Jay Harrison) ; Synopsis of act 2 (Cross) -- side 2. Opera news on the air (Downes discusses the 1964-65 season with Rudolf Bing) ; Synopsis of act 3 (Cross) -- side 3. Act 1 -- side 4. act 2 -- side 5. Act 3 ; Closing remarks (Cross).

Call Number

*LTCM 205 (F)

Author

Puccini, Giacomo, 1858-1924.

Title

Tosca [sound recording] : opera in three acts... / Giacomo Puccini ; libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa, founded on La Tosca, play by Victorien Sardou.

Playing Time

011300 015125

Series

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of \Apr. 18, 1964\640418\]

Cast

Birgit Nilsson (Tosca) ; Franco Corelli (Cavaradossi) ; George London (Scarpia) ; Norman Scott (Angelotti) ; Fernando Corena (Sacristan) ; Paul Franke (Spoletta) ; Calvin Marsh (Sciarrone) ; Stuart Fischer (Shepherd boy) ; Robert Patterson (Jailer) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; Fausto Cleva, conductor ; Milton Cross, broadcast announcer.

Indexed In:

Opera news, v. 28, no. 23 (Apr. 18, 1964).

Event

Originally broadcast live from the Music Hall, Boston, Apr. 18, 1964.

Original Version

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

Language

Sung in Italian.

Added Author

Illica, Luigi, 1857-1919. Librettist

Giacosa, Giuseppe, 1847-1906. Librettist

Sardou, Victorien, 1831-1908. Tosca.

Nilsson, Birgit. Performer

Corelli, Franco. Performer

London, George, 1920-1985. Performer

Scott, Norman, 1921-1968. Performer

Corena, Fernando. Performer

Franke, Paul, 1917-2011. Performer

Marsh, Calvin. Performer

Fischer, Stuart. Performer

Patterson, Robert (Baritone) Performer

Cleva, Fausto. Conductor

Cross, Milton, 1897-1975. Commentator

Downes, Edward, 1911- Commentator

Peltz, Mary Ellis, 1896-1981. Commentator

Goldovsky, Boris. Commentator

McEwen, Terry. Commentator

Harrison, Jay. Commentator

Bing, Rudolf, 1902-1997. Commentator

Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.)

Added Title

Texaco's opera quiz (Radio program)

Opera news on the air (Radio program)

Metropolitan Opera Radio Broadcast collection.

Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (Radio program)

Research Call Number

*LTCM 205 (F) \(Production notes in listening room.)

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