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Rigoletto opera in three acts

Title: Rigoletto [sound recording] : opera in three acts / music by Giuseppe Verdi ; libretto Francesco Maria Piave.
Author: Verdi, Giuseppe, 1813-1901.

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Description

3 sound cassettes (179 min.) : stereo, Dolby-B processed.

Series Statement

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Apr. 6, 1985]

Uniform Title

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

Alternative Title

Rigoletto

Subjects

Genre/Form

Live sound recordings.

Note

Sung in Itlaian.
Title from house program ; series title from Opera news.
Durations: 0:54:56 (synopses and features) ; 2:04:09 (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, Apr. 6, 1985.

Reproduction (note)

Service copy (3 sound cassettes : stereo, Dolby-B processed) available in: *LTCM 473 (F)

Contents

side 1. Introduction and synopsis of act 1 (Peter Allen) ; Opera news on the air (Terrence McNally) ; Synopsis of act 2 (Allen) ; Texaco's opera quiz (Edward Downes, host, with Peter Bonelli, William Livingstone and Terrence McNally) -- side 2. Quiz concluded ; Synopsis of act 3 -- side 3. Act 1 through "Deh mon parlare al misero" -- side 4. Act 1 concluded -- side 5. Act 2 -- side 6. Act 3 ; Closing remarks (Allen).

Call Number

*LTCM 473 (f)

OCLC

NYPG91-R205

Author

Verdi, Giuseppe, 1813-1901.

Title

Rigoletto [sound recording] : opera in three acts / music by Giuseppe Verdi ; libretto Francesco Maria Piave.

Playing Time

005456 020409

Series

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Apr. 6, 1985]

Performer

Dano Raffanti (The Duke of Mantua) ; Michael Best (Borsa) ; Loretta Di Franco (Countess Ceprano) ; Louis Quilico (Rigoletto) ; John Darrenkamp (Marullo) ; Richard Vernon (Count Ceprano) ; Richard J. Clark (Monterone) ; John Macurdy (Sparafucile) ; Judith Blegen (Gilda) ; Batyah Godfrey (Giovanna) ; Beverly Hulse (A page) ; Paul De Paola (Chief Guard) ; Isola Jones (Maddalena) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra ; Nello Santi, conductor ; Peter Allen, broadcast announcer.

Indexed In:

Opera news, v. 49, no. 14 (Mar. 30, 1985).

Event

Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Apr. 6, 1985.

Original Version

Re-recorded at NYPL in Apr. 1991, 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 473 (F)

Added Author

Piave, Francesco Maria, 1810-1876. Librettist

Raffanti, Dano. Performer

Best, Michael. Performer

Di Franco, Loretta. Performer

Quilico, Louis. Performer

Darrenkamp, John. Performer

Vernon, Richard, 1950- Performer

Clark, Richard J. Performer

Macurdy, John. Performer

Blegen, Judith. Performer

Godfrey Ben-David, Batyah. Performer

Hulse, Beverly. Performer

Paola, Paul de. Performer

Jones, Isola. Performer

Santi, Nello. Conductor

Allen, Peter, 1920-2016. Commentator

Stevens, Risë, 1913-2013. Commentator

McNally, Terrence. Commentator

Downes, Edward, 1911- Commentator

Livingstone, William. Commentator

Bonelli, Peter. 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 473 (f) \(Production notes in listening room.)

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