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Giuseppe Verdi's Falstaff opera in three acts

Title: Giuseppe Verdi's Falstaff [sound recording] : opera in three acts / libretto by Arrigo Boito.
Author: Verdi, Giacomo, 1813-1901.

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Description

3 sound cassettes (192 min.) : analog, stereo., Dolby-B processed.

Series Statement

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of 1975-04-05 (Apr. 5 1975.

Uniform Title

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

Alternative Title

Falstaff

Subject

Operas

Note

Sung in Italian.
Title from house program ; series title from Opera news.
Durations: 0:55:00 (synopses and features) ; 2:17:00 (opera).
With production notes and official cast list (6 p.).

Indexed In (note)

Opera news

Event (note)

Originally broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Apr. 5, 1975.

Contents

side 1. Introduction and synopsis of act 1 (Peter Allen) ; Opera news on the air: Musical and dramitic analysis of Falstaff (Alberta Masiello) ; Synopsis of act 2 (Allen) -- side 2. Texaco's opera quiz: Record Collectors' roundtable with John Ardoin, George Jellinek, Terry McEwen, Andrew Porter and Edward Downes, m.c. ; Synopsis of act 3 (Allen) -- side 3. Act 1 -- side 4. Act 2 -- side 5. Act 3 to just before finale -- side 6. Act 3, finale ; Closing remarks (Allen)

Call Number

*LTCM 623 (F)

OCLC

NYPG87-R247

Author

Verdi, Giacomo, 1813-1901.

Title

Giuseppe Verdi's Falstaff [sound recording] : opera in three acts / libretto by Arrigo Boito.

Playing Time

005500 021700

Series

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of 1975-04-05 (Apr. 5 1975.

Performer

Cornell McNeil (Falstaff) ; Evelyn Lear (Alice Ford) ; Joann Grillo (Meg Page) ; Benita Valente (Nannetta) ; Douglas Ahlstedt (Fenton) ; Fedora Barbieri (Mrs. Quickly) ; Andrea Velis (Bardolfo) ; Thomas Stewart (Ford) ; Richard Best (Pistola) ; Paul Franke (Dr. Cajus) ; Lorraine Calcagno (Mistress of the Inn) Thomas Powell (Innkeeper) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; James Levine, conductor ; Peter Allen, broadcast announcer.

Indexed In:

Opera news, v. 39, no. 19 (Apr. 5, 1975).

Event

Originally broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Apr. 5, 1975.

Original Version

Re-recorded at NYPL in Oct. 1982, from masters borrowed from the Metropolitan Opera (3 sound tape reels : 7 1/2 ips, 2 track, stereo. ; 10 in.).

Added Author

Boito, Arrigo, 1842-1918. Librettist

MacNeil, Cornell. Performer

Lear, Evelyn. Performer

Grillo, Joann. Performer

Valente, Benita. Performer

Ahlstedt, Douglas. Performer

Barbieri, Fedora. Performer

Stewart, Thomas, 1926- Performer

Velis, Andrea, 1932-1994. Performer

Best, Richard, 1935- Performer

Franke, Paul, 1917-2011. Performer

Calcagno, Lorraine. Performer

Powell, Thomas, 1919- Performer

Levine, James, 1943-2021. Conductor

Allen, Peter, 1920-2016. Commentator

Masiello, Alberta. Commentator

Downes, Edward, 1911- Commentator

Ardoin, John. Commentator

Jellinek, George, 1919- Commentator

McEwen, Terry. Commentator

Porter, Andrew, 1928-2015.

Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.)

Added Title

Opera news on the air (Radio program)

Texaco's opera quiz (Radio program)

Record collectors' roundtable (Radio program)

Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (Radio program)

Research Call Number

*LTCM 623 (F) Production notes in listening room.

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