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Otello opera in four acts

Title: Otello [sound recording] : opera in four acts / music by Giuseppe Verdi ; libretto by Arrigo Boito, based on Shakespeare's play.
Author: Verdi, Giuseppe, 1813-1901.

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Description

3 sound cassettes (235 min.) : stereo, Dolby-B processed.

Series Statement

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Feb. 2, 1985]

Uniform Title

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

Alternative Title

Otello

Subjects

Genre/Form

Live sound recordings.

Note

Sung in Italian.
Title from house program ; series title from Opera news.
Durations: 1:19:04 (synopses and features) ; 2:35:16 (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, Feb. 2, 1985.

Reproduction (note)

Service copy (3 sound cassettes : stereo, Dolby-B processed) available in: *LTCM 463 (F)

Contents

side 1. Introduction and synopsis of act 1 (Peter Allen) ; Opera news on the air (George Jellinek) ; Synopsis of act 2 (Allen) ; Texaco's opera quiz (Edward Downes, host, with George Jellinek, John Pfeiffer and Henry Wrong) -- side 2. Opera quiz concluded ; Synopsis of act 3 (Allen) ; Singer's round table (Richard Mohr, host, with Tatiana Troyanos) ; Synopsis of act 4 (Allen) -- side 3. Act 1 -- side 4. Act 2 -- side 5. Act 3 -- side 6. Act 4 ; Closing remarks (Allen).

Call Number

*LTCM 463 (f)

OCLC

NYPG91-R211

Author

Verdi, Giuseppe, 1813-1901.

Title

Otello [sound recording] : opera in four acts / music by Giuseppe Verdi ; libretto by Arrigo Boito, based on Shakespeare's play.

Playing Time

011904 023516

Series

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Feb. 2, 1985]

Performer

John DarrenKamp (Montano) ; William Lewis (Cassio) ; Sherrill Milnes (Iago) ; Charles Anthony (Roderigo) ; Plácido Domingo (Otello) ; Margaret Price (Desdemona) ; Jean Kraft (Emilia) ; Vernon Hartman (A herald) ; Gwynne Howell (Lodovico) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; James Levine, conductor ; Peter Allen, broadcast announcer.

Indexed In:

Opera news, v. 49, no. 10 (Feb. 2, 1985).

Event

Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Feb. 2, 1985.

Original Version

Re-recorded at NYPL in Apr. 1991, from borrowed masters (4 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 463 (F)

Added Author

Boito, Arrigo, 1842-1918. Librettist

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Othello.

Darrenkamp, John. Performer

Yuscarán, Guillermo. Performer

Milnes, Sherrill. Performer

Anthony, Charles, 1929-2012. Performer

Domingo, Plácido, 1941- Performer

Price, Maggie. Performer

Kraft, Jean. Performer

Hartman, Vernon. Performer

Howell, Gwynne. Performer

Levine, James, 1943-2021. Conductor

Allen, Peter, 1920-2016. Commentator

Jellinek, George, 1919- Commentator

Downes, Edward, 1911- Commentator

Pfeiffer, John, 1920- Commentator

Wrong, Henry. Commentator

Mohr, Richard. Commentator

Troyanos, Tatiana. Commentator

Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.)

Added Title

Opera news on the air (Radio program)

Texaco's opera quiz (Radio program)

Singers' roundtable (Radio program)

Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (Radio program)

Research Call Number

*LTCM 463 (f) \(Production notes in listening room.)

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