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La traviata opera in four acts

Title: La traviata [sound recording] : opera in four acts / Giuseppe Verdi ; libretto by Francesco Maria Piave, founded on La dame aux camélias, novel and play by Alexandre Dumas, fils.
Author: Verdi, Giuseppe, 1813-1901.

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Description

3 sound cassettes (204 min.) : analog, mono., Dolby-B processed.

Series Statement

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; broadcast of Apr. 21, 1962

Uniform Title

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

Subjects

Note

Sung in Italian.
Titles from Opera news.
Durations: 1:18:25 (synopses and features) ; 2:05:45 (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, Apr. 21, 1962.

Contents

side 1. Introduction and synopsis of act 1 (Milton Cross) ; Biographies in music: Francis Robinson interviews and discusses Elisabeth Rethberg ; Synopsis of act 2 (Cross) ; Texaco's opera quiz, beginning: Edward Downes, Mary Ellis Peltz, Terry McEwen, Jay Harrison and Walter Slezak -- side 2. Opera quiz, conclusion ; Synopsis of act 3 (Cross) ; Seasonal windup: Downes, Harrison and Rudolf Bing ; Synopsis of act 4 (Cross) -- side 3. Act 1 -- side 4. Act 2 -- side 5. act 3 -- side6. Act 4 ; Closing remarks (Cross).

Call Number

*LTCM 165 (F)

OCLC

NYPG85-R409

Author

Verdi, Giuseppe, 1813-1901.

Title

La traviata [sound recording] : opera in four acts / Giuseppe Verdi ; libretto by Francesco Maria Piave, founded on La dame aux camélias, novel and play by Alexandre Dumas, fils.

Playing Time

011825 020545

Series

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; broadcast of Apr. 21, 1962

Performer

Anna Moffo (Violetta) ; Barry Morell (Alfredo) ; Mario Sereni (Germont) ; Joan Wall (Flora) ; Mary Ellen Pracht (Annina) ; Calvin Marsh (Baron Douphol) ; George Cehanovsky (Marquis D'Obigny) ; Louis Sgarro (Doctor Grenvil) ; Gabor Carelli (Gastone) ; William Zakariasen (Giuseppe) ; Vladimir Chistiakov (Gardener) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; Ignace Strasfogel, conductor ; Milton Cross,broadcast announcer.

Indexed In:

Opera news, v. 26, no. 23 (Apr. 21, 1962).

Event

Originally recorded in the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Apr. 21, 1962.

Original Version

Re-recorded at NYPL in July 1985, from borrowed masters (4 sound tape reels : 7 1/2 ips, 1 track, mono. ; 10 in.).

Added Author

Piave, Francesco Maria, 1810-1876. Librettist

Dumas, Alexandre, 1824-1895. Dame aux camélias.

Moffo, Anna. Performer

Morell, Barry. Performer

Sereni, Mario. Performer

Wall, Joan. Performer

Pracht, Mary Ellen. Performer

Marsh, Calvin. Performer

Cehanovsky, George, 1892-1986. Performer

Sgarro, Louis, 1920-1985. Performer

Carelli, Gabor. Performer

Zakariasen, William. Performer

Chist︠i︡akov, Vladimir. Performer

Strasfogel, Ignace, 1909- Conductor

Cross, Milton, 1897-1975. Commentator

Robinson, Francis, 1910- Commentator

Rethberg, Elisabeth, 1894- Commentator

Downes, Edward, 1911- Commentator

Peltz, Mary Ellis, 1896-1981. Commentator

McEwen, Terry. Commentator

Harrison, Jay. Commentator

Slezak, Walter, 1902- Commentator

Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.)

Added Title

Texaco's opera quiz (Radio program)

Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (Radio program)

Research Call Number

*LTCM 165 (F) (Production notes in listening room.)

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