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Otello [sound recording] : lyric drama in four acts...

Title: Otello [sound recording] : lyric drama in four acts... / Giuseppe Verdi ; libretto by Arrigo Boito, founded on Shakespeare's tragedy.
Author: Verdi, Giuseppe, 1813-1901.

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Description

3 sound cassettes (220 min.) : analog, mono., Dolby-B processed.

Series Statement

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of \Mar. 23, 1963\630323\]

Uniform Title

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

Alternative Title

Otello

Subjects

Note

Sung in Italian.
Titles from Opera news.
Durations: 1:18:50 (synopses and features) ; 2:21:20 (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, Mar. 23, 1963.

Contents

side 1. Introduction and synopsis of act 1 (Milton Cross) ; Opera news on the air: Cornelia Otis Skinner compares Othello and Otello ; Synopsis of act 2 (Cross) ; Texaco's opera quiz, beginning: Edward Downes, Robert Lawrence, George Schick, Ignace Strasfogel and Dario Soria -- side 2. Opera quiz, conclusion ; Synopsis of act 3 (Cross) ; Biographies in music: Francis Robinson interviews Gladys Swarthout and Frank Chapman ; Synopsis or act 4 (Cross) -- side 3. Act 1 -- side 4. Act 2 -- side 5. act 3 -- side 6. Act 4 ; Closing remarks (Cross).

Call Number

*LTCM 182 (F)

Author

Verdi, Giuseppe, 1813-1901.

Title

Otello [sound recording] : lyric drama in four acts... / Giuseppe Verdi ; libretto by Arrigo Boito, founded on Shakespeare's tragedy.

Playing Time

011850 022120

Series

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of \Mar. 23, 1963\630323\]

Performer

James McCracken (Otello) ; Gabriella Tucci (Desdemona) ; Robert Merrill (Iago) ; Mignon Dunn (Emilia) ; Paul Franke (Cassio) ; Charles Anthony (Roderigo) ; Clofford Harvuot (Montano) ; Bonaldo Giaiotti (Lodovico) ; Roald Reitan (herald) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; Georg Solti, conductor ; Milton Cross, broadcast announcer.

Indexed In:

Opera news, v. 27, no. 20 (Mar. 23, 1963).

Event

Originally recorded in the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Mar. 23, 1963.

Original Version

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

Added Author

Boito, Arrigo, 1842-1918. Librettist

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Othello.

McCracken, James, 1926- Performer

Tucci, Gabriella. Performer

Merrill, Robert, 1917-2004. Performer

Dunn, Mignon. Performer

Franke, Paul, 1917-2011. Performer

Anthony, Charles, 1929-2012. Performer

Harvuot, Clifford, 1912-1990. Performer

Giaiotti, Bonaldo. Performer

Reitan, Roald. Performer

Solti, Georg, 1912-1997. Conductor

Cross, Milton, 1897-1975. Commentator

Skinner, Cornelia Otis, 1901-1979. Commentator

Downes, Edward, 1911- Commentator

Lawrence, Robert, 1912- Commentator

Schick, George. Commentator

Soria, Dario. Commentator

Strasfogel, Ignace. Commentator

Robinson, Francis, 1910- Commentator

Swarthout, Gladys, 1904- Commentator

Chapman, Frank E. Commentator

Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.)

Added Title

Opera news on the air (Radio program).

Texaco's opera quiz (Radio program).

Biographies in music (Radio program).

Metropolitan Opera Radio Broadcast collection.

Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (Radio program)

Research Call Number

*LTCM 182 (F) \(Production notes in listening room.)

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