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

Title: Turandot [sound recording] : opera in three acts... / Giacomo Puccini, completed by Franco Alfano ; libretto by Giuseppe Adami and Renato Simoni, after Gozzi and Schiller.
Author: Puccini, Giacomo, 1858-1924.
Publication: Feb. 24, 1962.

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Description

on 5 sides of 3 sound cassettes (179 min.) : analog, mono., Dolby-B processed.

Series Statement

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of] Feb. 24, 1962
Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of] Feb. 24, 1962.

Uniform Title

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

Subjects

Note

Sung in Italian.
Titles from Opera news.
Durations: 0:59:20 (synopses and features) ; 2:00:00 (opera).
With production notes and official cast list (6 p.).

Indexed In (note)

Opera news,

Event (note)

Originally recorded in the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Feb. 24, 1962.

Contents

side 1. Introduction and synopsis of act 1 (Milton Cross) ; Opera news on the air: John Gutman interviews Rosa Raisa ; Synopsis of act 2 (Cross) -- side 2. Texaco's opera quiz: Edward Downes, Jay Harrison, Jan Behr, Harry G. Schumer and Carol Longone ; Synopsis of act 3 (Cross) -- side 3. Act 1 -- side 4. Act 2 -- side 5. Act 3 ; Closing remarks (Cross).

Call Number

*LTCM 157 (F)

Author

Puccini, Giacomo, 1858-1924.

Title

Turandot [sound recording] : opera in three acts... / Giacomo Puccini, completed by Franco Alfano ; libretto by Giuseppe Adami and Renato Simoni, after Gozzi and Schiller.

Imprint

Feb. 24, 1962.

Playing Time

005920 020000

Series

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of] Feb. 24, 1962

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of] Feb. 24, 1962.

Performer

Birgit Nilsson (Turandot) ; Franco Corelli (Calaf) ; Licia Albanese (Liu) ; Frank Guarrera (Ping) ; Robert Nagy (Pang) ; Charles Anthony (Pong) ; Ezio Flagello (Timur) ; Alessio de Paolis (Emperor Altoum) ; Calvin Marsh (Mandarin) ; Edilio Ferraro (Prince of Persia) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; Kurt Adler, conductor ; Milton Cross, broadcast annoncer.

Indexed In:

Opera news, v. 26, no. 15 (Feb. 24, 1962).

Event

Originally recorded in the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Feb. 24, 1962.

Original Version

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

Added Author

Alfano, Franco, 1875-1954. Composer

Adami, Giuseppe, 1878-1946. Librettist

Simoni, Renato, 1875-1952. Librettist

Gozzi, Carlo, 1720-1806. Turandot.

Nilsson, Birgit. Performer

Corelli, Franco. Performer

Albanese, Licia. Performer

Guarrera, Frank, 1923- Performer

Nagy, Robert, 1929- Performer

Anthony, Charles, 1929-2012. Performer

Flagello, Ezio. Performer

De Paolis, Alessio. Performer

Marsh, Calvin. Performer

Ferraro, Edilio. Performer

Adler, Kurt, 1907-1977. Conductor

Cross, Milton, 1897-1975. Commentator

Gutman, John. Commentator

Raisa, Rosa, 1893-1963. Commentator

Downes, Edward, 1911- Commentator

Longone, Carol. Commentator

Behr, Jan. Commentator

Harrison, Jay. Commentator

Schumer, Harry G. Commentator

Spaeth, Sigmund, 1885-1965. Commentator

Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.)

Added Title

Opera news on the air (Radio program)

Texaco's opera quiz (Radio program)

Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (Radio program)

Metropolitan Opera Radio Broadcast collection.

Research Call Number

*LTCM 157 (F) \(Production notes in listening room.)

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