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Le nozze di Figaro

Title: Le nozze di Figaro [sound recording] / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ; libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte.
Author: Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791.
Publication: [New York, NY] : Metropolitan Opera, c2002.

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Description

5 sound discs : digital, stereo.; 4 3/4 in.

Donor/Sponsor

Gift of Metropolitan Opera.

Series Statement

ChevronTexaco-Metropolitan Opera International Radio Network ; [broadcast of] Feb. 9, 2002.

Uniform Title

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

Subjects

Genre/Form

Live sound recordings.

Note

Compact discs.

Performer (note)

Soile Isokoski (Countess Almaviva) ; Korliss Uecker (Susanna) ; Kristine Jepson (Cherubino) ; Ferruccio Furlanetto (Figaro) ; Peter Mattei (Count Almaviva) ; Paul Plishka (Don Bartolo) ; Wendy White (Marcellina) ; Michel Sénéchal (Don Basilio) ; Thomas Hammons (Antonio) ; Tony Stevenson (Don Curzio) ; Danielle De Niese (Barbarina) ; Angela Gilbert, Reveka Mavrovitis (Two bridesmaids) ; Donald Runnicles, conductor ; Metropolitan Opera Chorus and Orchestra ; Peter Allen, broadcast announcer.

Event (note)

Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Feb. 9, 2002.

Source (note)

Metropolitan Opera;

Language (note)

Sung in Italian.

Contents

CD 1. Introduction and synopsis of Act 1 (Peter Allen) ; Act 1 -- CD 2. Act 2 -- CD 3. Act 3 -- CD 4. Act 4 -- CD 5. Opera news on the air (David Hamilton discusses the historic broadcast release of selections from the first Texaco sponsored radio season) ; Harlow Robinson discusses the season's broadcasts of Eugene Onegin and War and Peace ; Synopsis of Act 2 (Allen) ; Texaco's Opera Quiz (Thor Eckert, Jr, host, with Martin Bernheimer, Stephen A. Brown and Philip Gainsley) ; Synopsis of Acts 3 & 4 (Allen) ; Closing remarks (Allen).

Call Number

*LDC 27387

OCLC

NYPG02-R132

Author

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791.

Title

Le nozze di Figaro [sound recording] / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ; libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte.

Imprint

[New York, NY] : Metropolitan Opera, c2002.

Series

ChevronTexaco-Metropolitan Opera International Radio Network ; [broadcast of] Feb. 9, 2002.

Cast

Soile Isokoski (Countess Almaviva) ; Korliss Uecker (Susanna) ; Kristine Jepson (Cherubino) ; Ferruccio Furlanetto (Figaro) ; Peter Mattei (Count Almaviva) ; Paul Plishka (Don Bartolo) ; Wendy White (Marcellina) ; Michel Sénéchal (Don Basilio) ; Thomas Hammons (Antonio) ; Tony Stevenson (Don Curzio) ; Danielle De Niese (Barbarina) ; Angela Gilbert, Reveka Mavrovitis (Two bridesmaids) ; Donald Runnicles, conductor ; Metropolitan Opera Chorus and Orchestra ; Peter Allen, broadcast announcer.

Event

Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Feb. 9, 2002.

Language

Sung in Italian.

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Added Author

Da Ponte, Lorenzo, 1749-1838. Librettist

Allen, Peter, 1920-2016. Commentator

Runnicles, Donald, 1954- Conductor

Isokoski, Soile. Performer

Uecker, Korliss. Performer

Jepson, Kristine. Performer

Furlanetto, Ferruccio. Performer

Mattei, Peter, 1965- Performer

Plishka, Paul, 1941- Performer

White, Wendy. Performer

Sénéchal, Michel. Performer

Hammons, Thomas. Performer

Stevenson, Tony (Tenor) Performer

De Niese, Danielle. Performer

Gilbert, Angela. Performer

Mavrovitis, Reveka. Performer

Hamilton, David, 1935 January 18- Commentator

Eckert, Thor, Jr. Commentator

Bernheimer, Martin. Commentator

Brown, Stephen A. Commentator

Gainsley, Philip. Commentator

Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.)

Added Title

Texaco's opera quiz (Radio program)

Opera news on the air (Radio program)

Added Title

Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (Radio program)

Research Call Number

*LDC 27387

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