Research Catalog

Title

Don Giovanni [sound recording] : opera in two acts / music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ; libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte.

Author

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Allen, Peter, 1920-2016.
• Berhens, Hildegard.
• Bonelli, Peter.
• Da Ponte, Lorenzo, 1749-1838.
• Downes, Edward, 1911-
• Ewing, Maria.
• Hubay, Alfred.
• Macurdy, John.
• Masiello, Alberta.
• Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.)
• Metropolitan Opera Radio Broadcast collection.
• Morris, James, 1947-
• Neblett, Carol.
• Plishka, Paul, 1941-
• Robbins, Julien.
• Tate, Jeffrey.
• Winbergh, Gösta.

Description

3 sound cassettes (224 min.) : analog, stereo, Dolby-B processed.

Series Statement

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Mar. 10, 1984]

Uniform Title

• Don Giovanni
• Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (Radio program)
• Texaco's opera quiz (Radio program)

Alternative Title

Don Giovanni

Subject

• Operas

Note

• Sung in Italian.
• Title from house program ; series title from Opera news.
• Durations: 0:33:22 (synopses and features) ; 3:11:15 (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, Mar. 10, 1984.

Reproduction (note)

• Service copy (3 sound cassettes : stereo, Dolby-B processed) available in: *LTCM 449 (F)

Contents

side 1. Introduction and synopsis of act 1 (Peter Allen) ; Texaco's opera quiz (Edward Downes, host, with Alberta Masiello, Peter Bonelli and Alfred Hubay) ; Synopsis of act 2 (Allen) -- side 2. Overture ; Act 1 through "Ho capito" -- side 3. "Là ci darem la mano" through "Batti, Batti O bel Masetto" -- side 4. Act 1 concluded -- side 5. Act 2 through "In quali eccessi, O Numi" -- side 6. Act 2 concluded ; Closing remarks (Allen).

Call Number

*LTCM 449 (F)

Author

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791.

Title

Don Giovanni [sound recording] : opera in two acts / music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ; libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte.

Playing Time

3322 31115

Series

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Mar. 10, 1984]

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Mar. 10, 1984]

Performer

Paul Plishka, (Leporello) ; Hildegard Behrens (Donna Anna) ; James Morris (Don Giovanni) ; John Macurdy (The Commendatore) ; Gösta Winbergh (Don Ottavio) ; Carol Neblett (Donna Elvira) ; Maria Ewing (Zerlina) ; Julien Robbins (Masetto) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; Jeffrey Tate, conductor ; Peter Allen, broadcast announcer.

Indexed In:

Opera news, v. 48, no. 12 (Mar. 3, 1984).

Event

Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Mar. 10, 1984.

Original Version

Re-recorded at NYPL in Sept. 1990, from borrowed masters (3 sound tape reels : 7 1/2 ips, 2 track, stereo ; 10 in.) lent by the Metropolitan Opera.

Reproduction

Service copy (3 sound cassettes : stereo, Dolby-B processed) available in: *LTCM 449 (F)

Added Author

Da Ponte, Lorenzo, 1749-1838. Librettist

Plishka, Paul, 1941- Performer

Berhens, Hildegard. Performer

Morris, James, 1947- Performer

Macurdy, John. Performer

Winbergh, Gösta. Performer

Neblett, Carol. Performer

Ewing, Maria. Performer

Robbins, Julien. Performer

Tate, Jeffrey. Conductor

Allen, Peter, 1920-2016. Commentator

Downes, Edward, 1911- Commentator

Masiello, Alberta. Commentator

Bonelli, Peter. Commentator

Hubay, Alfred. Commentator

Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.)

Added Title

Texaco's opera quiz (Radio program)

Metropolitan Opera Radio Broadcast collection.

Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (Radio program)

Research Call Number

*LTCM 449 (F) \(Production notes on file.)