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Ernani : opera in four acts

Title: Ernani : radio broadcast, 1985-03-09 [sound recording] : opera in four acts / music by Giuseppe Verdi ; libretto by Francesco Maria Piave, based on the play by Victor Hogo.
Author: Verdi, Giuseppe, 1813-1901.

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Description

3 sound cassettes (213 min.) : stereo, Dolby-B processed.

Series Statement

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Mar. 9, 1985]

Uniform Title

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

Alternative Title

Ernani

Subjects

Genre/Form

Live sound recordings.

Note

Sung in Italian.
Title from house program ; series title from Opera news.
Durations: 1:11:38 (synopses and features) ; 2:21:11 (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. 9, 1985.

Reproduction (note)

Service copy (3 sound cassettes : stereo, Dolby-B processed) available in: *LTCM 469 (F)

Contents

side 1. Introduction and synopsis of act 1 (Peter Allen) ; Opera news on the air (George Bolet) ; Synopsis of act 2 (Allen) ; Texaco's opera quiz (Edward Downes, host, with Johanna Fiedler, Peter Bonelli and Charles Osbourne) -- side 2. Quiz concluded ; Synopsis of act 3 (Allen) ; Third intermission feature (M. Owen Lee) ; Synopsis of act 4 (Allen) -- side 3. Act 1 through "Infelice!" -- side 4. Act 1 concluded ; Act 2 -- side 5. Act 3 -- side 6. Act 4 ; Closing remarks (Allen).

Call Number

*LTCM 469 (f)

OCLC

NYPG91-R202

Author

Verdi, Giuseppe, 1813-1901.

Title

Ernani : radio broadcast, 1985-03-09 [sound recording] : opera in four acts / music by Giuseppe Verdi ; libretto by Francesco Maria Piave, based on the play by Victor Hogo.

Playing Time

011138 022111

Series

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Mar. 9, 1985]

Performer

Ermanno Mauro (Ernani) ; Leona Mitchell (Elvira) ; Pablo Elvira (Don Carlo) ; Jean Kraft (Giovanna) ; Paul Plishka (Don Ruy Gomez de Silva) ; Richard Vernon (Jago) ; Charles Anthony (Don Riccardo) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; Thomas Fulton, conductor ; Peter Allen, broadcast announcer.

Indexed In:

Opera news, v. 49, no. 12 (Mar. 2, 1985).

Event

Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Mar. 9, 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 469 (F)

Added Author

Piave, Francesco Maria, 1810-1876. Librettist

Hugo, Victor, 1802-1885. Hernani.

Mauro, Ermanno. Performer

Mitchell, Leona. Performer

Elvira, Pablo, 1937-2000. Performer

Kraft, Jean. Performer

Plishka, Paul, 1941- Performer

Vernon, Richard, 1950- Performer

Anthony, Charles, 1929-2012. Performer

Fulton, Thomas. Conductor

Allen, Peter, 1920-2016. Commentator

Stevens, Risë, 1913-2013. Commentator

Bolet, George. Commentator

Downes, Edward, 1911- Commentator

Fiedler, Johanna. Commentator

Bonelli, Peter. Commentator

Osbourne, Charles. Commentator

Lee, M. Owen, 1930-2019. 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 469 (f) (Production notes in listening room.)

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