Cavalleria rusticana : radio broadcast, 1953-04-04 : opera in one act / music by Pietro Mascagni ; libretto by G. Targioni-Tozzetti and G. Menasci, after the story of Giovanni Verga . Pagliacci : opera in two acts / libretto and music by Ruggiero Leoncavallo [sound recording].
side 1. Introduction and synopsis of Cavalleria rusticana (Milton Cross) ; Opera news on the air (Boris Goldovsky, host, with Martha Lipton and Robert Merrill) ; Synopsis of I Pagliacci act 1 (Cross) ; Texaco's opera quiz (Robert Lawrence, host, with Robert Bagar, Deems Taylor and Walter Ducloux) ; Synopsis of I Pagliacci act 2 (Cross) -- side 2. Closing remarks (Cross) -- side 3. Prelude of Cavalleria through "Voi lo sapete" -- side 4. Cavalleria concluded -- side 5. Prologue and act 1 of Pagliacci -- side 6. Pagliacci concluded.
Call number
*LT-10 4897
Note
Sung in Italian.
Title from house program ; series title from Opera news.
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, Apr. 4, 1953.
Reproduction (note)
Service copy (3 sound cassettes : analog, mono., Dolby-B processed) available in: *LTCM 347 (F)
Author
Mascagni, Pietro, 1853-1945.
Title
Cavalleria rusticana : radio broadcast, 1953-04-04 : opera in one act / music by Pietro Mascagni ; libretto by G. Targioni-Tozzetti and G. Menasci, after the story of Giovanni Verga . Pagliacci : opera in two acts / libretto and music by Ruggiero Leoncavallo [sound recording].
Playing time
05142 10957 10816
Series
Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Apr. 4, 1953]
Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Apr. 4, 1953]
Performer
In first work: Zinka Milanov (Santuzza) ; Margaret Roggero (Lola) ; Kurt Baum (Turiddu) ; Frank Valentino (Alfio) ; Thelma Votipka (Lucia).
In second work: Delia Rigal (Nedda) ; Mario Del Monaco (Canio) ; Paolo Silveri (Tonio) ; Thomas Hayward (Beppe) ; Renato Capecchi (Silvio).
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; Alberto Erede, conductor ; Milton Cross, broadcast announcer.
Indexed in:
Opera news, v. 17, no. 22 (Mar. 30, 1953).
Event
Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Apr. 4, 1953.
Original version
Preservation tapes recorded at NYPL in Jan. 1989, from aluminum-based acetates (7 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 347 (F)