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Boris Godunov : opera in four acts, based on Pushkin

Title: Boris Godunov : radio broadcast, 1943-02-13 [sound recording] : opera in four acts, based on Pushkin / music and libretto by M.P. Mussorgsky.
Author: Musorgskǐi, Modest Petrivich, 1839-1881.
Publication: [New York, NY] : Metropolitan Opera, [2002]

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Description

5 sound discs : digital; 4 3/4 in.

Donor/Sponsor

Gift of the Metropolitan Opera.

Series Statement

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of] Feb. 13, 1943

Uniform Title

Metropolitan Opera broadcast (Radio program)
Column of the air (Radio program)
Opera victory rally (Radio program)
Texaco's opera quiz (Radio program)
Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (Radio program)
Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of] Feb. 13, 1943.

Subjects

Genre/Form

Live sound recordings.

Note

Subtitle from house program.
Durations: 1:17:46 (announcements, synopses, and intermission features) ; 3:01:09 (opera).
Compact discs.
House program on file in Music Division.

Indexed In (note)

Opera news

Performer (note)

Kerstin Thorborg (Marina) ; Alexander Kipnis (Boris) ; Alessio De Paolis (Shuiski) ; René Maison (Grigory) ; Nicola Moscona (Pimen) ; Norman Cordon (Varlaam) ; Leonard Warren (Rangoni) ; Irra Petina (Fyodor) ; Marita Farell (Xenia) ; Anna Kaskas (Nurse) ; George Cehanovsky (Shchelkalov) ; John Dudley (Missail) ; Doris Doe (Innkeeper) ; Osie Hawkins (Frontier guard) ; John Garris (Simpleton) ; Emery Darcy (Boyar) ; Lansing Hatfield (Lavitski) ; Lorenzo Alvary (Chernikovski) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; George Szell, conductor ; Milton Cross, broadcast announcer.

Event (note)

Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Feb. 13, 1943.

Source (note)

Metropolitan Opera;

Language (note)

Sung in Russian and Italian.

Contents

CD 1. Opening remarks and synopsis of Act 1 (in Spanish) ; Act 1 -- CD 2. Synopsis of Act 2 (in Spanish) ; Act 2 -- CD 3. Synopsis of Act 3 (in Spanish) ; Act 3 -- CD 4. Synopsis of Act 4 (in Spanish) ; Act 4 ; Closing remarks (in Spanish) -- CD 5. Column of the air (Milton Cross discusses Etienne Barone, in charge of supers; Alfred Mapleson, librarian, and his father Lionel; Al Davidson, in charge of armor; Otello Ceroni, prompter; Tony, horse groom; and Helen Traubel, Gladys Swarthout, composers known for one opera, etc.) ; Synopsis of Act 2 (Milton Cross) ; Opera victory rally (Mrs. August Belmont, Bruno Walter, former ambassador Joseph E. Davies, Alan Radwill) ; Synopsis of Act 3 (Cross) ; Opera forum quiz (Olin Downes questions Josephine Antoine, Robert Lawrence, and Sigmund Spaeth) ; Synopsis of Act 4 (Cross) ; Closing remarks (Cross).

Call Number

*LDC 32741

OCLC

NYPG04-R329

Author

Musorgskǐi, Modest Petrivich, 1839-1881.

Title

Boris Godunov : radio broadcast, 1943-02-13 [sound recording] : opera in four acts, based on Pushkin / music and libretto by M.P. Mussorgsky.

Imprint

[New York, NY] : Metropolitan Opera, [2002]

Series

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of] Feb. 13, 1943

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of] Feb. 13, 1943.

Cast

Kerstin Thorborg (Marina) ; Alexander Kipnis (Boris) ; Alessio De Paolis (Shuiski) ; René Maison (Grigory) ; Nicola Moscona (Pimen) ; Norman Cordon (Varlaam) ; Leonard Warren (Rangoni) ; Irra Petina (Fyodor) ; Marita Farell (Xenia) ; Anna Kaskas (Nurse) ; George Cehanovsky (Shchelkalov) ; John Dudley (Missail) ; Doris Doe (Innkeeper) ; Osie Hawkins (Frontier guard) ; John Garris (Simpleton) ; Emery Darcy (Boyar) ; Lansing Hatfield (Lavitski) ; Lorenzo Alvary (Chernikovski) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; George Szell, conductor ; Milton Cross, broadcast announcer.

Indexed In:

Opera news, v. 7 (Feb. 8, 1943).

Event

Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Feb. 13, 1943.

Language

Sung in Russian and Italian.

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Added Author

Pushkin, Aleksandr Sergeevich, 1799-1837. Boris godunov.

Thorborg, Kerstin, 1896-1970. Performer

Kipnis, Alexander, 1891-1978. Performer

De Paolis, Alessio. Performer

Maison, René, 1895-1962. Performer

Moscona, Nicola. Performer

Cordon, Norman. Performer

Warren, Leonard, 1911-1960. Performer

Petina, Irra, 1907- Performer

Farell, Marita. Performer

Kaskas, Anna. Performer

Cehanovsky, George, 1892-1986. Performer

Dudley, John. Performer

Doe, Doris, 1899-1985. Performer

Hawkins, Osie. Performer

Garris, John, 1911-1949. Performer

Darcy, Emery. Performer

Hatfield, Lansing. Performer

Alvary, Lorenzo, 1909- Performer

Szell, George, 1897-1970. Conductor

Cross, Milton, 1897-1975. Commentator

Belmont, Eleanor Robson, 1879- Commentator

Walter, Bruno, 1876-1962. Commentator

Davies, Joseph Edward. Commentator

Downes, Olin, 1886-1955. Commentator

Antoine, Josephine. Commentator

Lawrence, Robert, 1912- Commentator

Spaeth, Sigmund, 1885-1965. Commentator

Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.)

Added Title

Metropolitan Opera broadcast (Radio program)

Column of the air (Radio program)

Opera victory rally (Radio program)

Texaco's opera quiz (Radio program)

Added Title

Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (Radio program)

Research Call Number

*LDC 32741

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