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Otello opera in four acts

Title: Otello [sound recording] : opera in four acts / music by Giuseppe Verdi ; libretto by Arrigo Boito.
Author: Verdi, Giuseppe, 1813-1901.

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Description

4 sound tape reels (207 min.) : analog, 7 1/2 ips, 2 track, mono.; 10 in.

Series Statement

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Feb. 9, 1952]

Uniform Title

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

Alternative Title

Otello
Metropolitan opera mailbox (Radio program)

Subjects

Genre/Form

Live sound recordings.

Note

Sung in Italian.
Title from house program ; series title from Opera news.
Durations: 0:59:08 (synopses and features) ; 2:28:25 (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

Event (note)

Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Feb. 9, 1952.

Reproduction (note)

Service copy (3 sound cassettes : analog, mono., Dolby-B processed) available in: *LTCM 359 (F)

Contents

side 1. Introduction and synopsis of act 1 (Milton Cross) ; Opera news on the air (Boris Goldovsky, host, with Russell Kraus) ; Synopsis of act 2 (Cross) ; Texaco's opera quiz (Robert Lawrence, host, with Walter Ducloux, Sigmund Spaeth and Deems Taylor) ; Synopsis of act 3 (Cross) -- side 2. Metropolitan opera mailbox (Rudolf Bing) ; Synopsis of act 4 -- side 3. Act 1 -- side 4. Act 2 -- side 5. Act 3 -- side 6. Act 4.

Call Number

*LT-10 4908

OCLC

NYPG89-R328

Author

Verdi, Giuseppe, 1813-1901.

Title

Otello [sound recording] : opera in four acts / music by Giuseppe Verdi ; libretto by Arrigo Boito.

Playing Time

05908 22825

Series

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Feb. 9, 1952]

Performer

Ramon Vinay (Otello) ; Eleanor Steber (Desdemona) ; Leonard Warren (Iago) ; Martha Lipton (Emilia) ; Thomas Hayward (Cassio) ; Paul Franke (Roderigo) ; Lubomir Vichegonov (Lodovico) ; Osie Hawkins (Montano) ; Algerd Brazis (A herald) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; Fritz Stiedry, conductor ; Milton Cross, broadcast announcer.

Indexed In:

Opera news, v. 16, no. 14 (Feb. 4, 1952).

Event

Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Feb. 9, 1952.

Original Version

Preservation tape, recorded at NYPL in June 1952, from aluminum-based acetates (8 sound discs : analog, 33 1/3 rpm, mono. ; 16 in.) lent by the Metropolitan Opera.

Reproduction

Service copy (3 sound cassettes : analog, mono., Dolby-B processed) available in: *LTCM 359 (F)

Added Author

Boito, Arrigo, 1842-1918. Librettist

Vinay, Ramon. Performer

Steber, Eleanor. Performer

Warren, Leonard, 1911-1960. Performer

Hayward, Thomas. Performer

Franke, Paul, 1917-2011. Performer

Lipton, Martha. Performer

Vichegonov, Lubomir. Performer

Hawkins, Osie. Performer

Brazis, Algerd. Performer

Stiedry, Fritz. Conductor

Cross, Milton, 1897-1975. Commentator

Goldovsky, Boris. Commentator

Kraus, Russell. Commentator

Lawrence, Robert, 1912- Commentator

Ducloux, Walter. Commentator

Taylor, Deems, 1885-1966. Commentator

Spaeth, Sigmund, 1885-1965. Commentator

Bing, Rudolf, 1902-1997. Commentator

Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.)

Added Title

Opera news on the air (Radio program)

Texaco's opera quiz (Radio program)

Metropolitan opera mailbox (Radio program)

Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (Radio program)

Research Call Number

*LT-10 4908 Master tape. Request cassette service copy in *LTCM 359 (F).

*LTCM 359 (F) Cassette service copy; production notes on file. Master tape in *LT-10 4908.

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