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Tosca opera in three acts

Title: Tosca [sound recording] : opera in three acts / Giacomo Puccini ; libretto by Victorien Sardou, Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa.
Author: Puccini, Giacomo, 1858-1924.

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Description

3 sound cassettes (178 min.) : analog, mono., Dolby-B processed.

Series Statement

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Feb. 15, 1969]

Uniform Title

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

Alternative Title

Tosca

Subjects

Genre/Form

Live sound recordings.

Note

Sung in Italian.
Title from house program ; series title from Opera news.
Durations: 1:04:00 (synopses and features) ; 1:53:50 (opera).
Production notes and official cast list (6 p.) on file in the Rodgers and Hammerstein listening room.

Indexed In (note)

Opera news

Event (note)

Originally broadcast live from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Feb. 15, 1969.

Contents

side 1. Introduction and synopsis of act 1 (Milton Cross) ; Opera news on the air: William Weaver and Herbert Handt discuss five generations of Puccinis in Lucca ; Synopsis of act 2 (Cross) -- side 2. Texaco's opera quiz, with quizmaster Edward Downes and panelists H.C. Robbins Landon, Max de Schauensee, Robert Lawrence, and Terry McEwen ; Synopsis of act 3 (Cross) -- side 3. Act 1 -- side 4. Act 2 -- side 5. Act 3 ; Closing remarks (Cross).

Call Number

*LTCM 297 (F)

OCLC

NYPG88-R44

Author

Puccini, Giacomo, 1858-1924.

Title

Tosca [sound recording] : opera in three acts / Giacomo Puccini ; libretto by Victorien Sardou, Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa.

Playing Time

010400 015350

Series

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Feb. 15, 1969]

Performer

Birgit Nilsson (Floria Tosca) ; Placido Domingo (Mario Cavaradossi) ; William Dooley (Baron Scarpia) ; Louis Sgarro (Cesare Angelotti) ; Paul Plishka (Sacristan) ; Andrea Velis (Spoletta) ; Russell Christopher (Sciarrone) ; Robert Goodloe (Jailer) ; Kris Kalfayan (Shepherd) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; George Schick, conductor ; Milton Cross, broadcast announcer.

Indexed In:

Opera news, v. 33, no. 16 (Feb. 15, 1969).

Event

Originally broadcast live from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Feb. 15, 1969.

Original Version

Re-recorded at NYPL in Feb. 1988, from masters borrowed from the Metropolitan Opera (3 sound tape reels : 7 1/2 ips, 1 track, mono. ; 10 in.).

Added Author

Illica, Luigi, 1857-1919. Librettist

Giacosa, Giuseppe, 1847-1906. Librettist

Sardou, Victorien, 1831-1908. Tosca.

Nilsson, Birgit. Performer

Domingo, Plácido, 1941- Performer

Dooley, William. Performer

Sgarro, Louis, 1920-1985. Performer

Plishka, Paul, 1941- Performer

Velis, Andrea, 1932-1994. Performer

Christopher, Russell. Performer

Goodloe, Robert. Performer

Kalfayan, Kris. Performer

Schick, George. Conductor

Cross, Milton, 1897-1975. Commentator

Weaver, William, 1923-2013, commentator.

Handt, Herbert. Commentator

Downes, Edward, 1911- Commentator

De Schauensee, Max. Commentator

Landon, H. C. Robbins (Howard Chandler Robbins), 1926-2009. Commentator

Lawrence, Robert, 1912- Commentator

McEwen, Terry. Commentator

Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.)

Added Title

Opera news on the air (Radio program)

Texaco's opera quiz (Radio program)

Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (Radio program)

Research Call Number

*LTCM 297 (F) Production notes in listening room.

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