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Norma opera in four acts

Title: Norma [sound recording] : opera in four acts / music by Vincenzo Bellini ; libretto by Felice Romani.
Author: Bellini, Vincenzo, 1801-1835.

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Description

4 sound discs : digital, stereo.; 4 3/4 in.

Donor/Sponsor

Gift of the Metropolitan Opera.

Series Statement

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of] February 12, 1944
Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of] February 12, 1944.

Uniform Title

Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (Radio program).
Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (Radio program)

Subject

Operas

Note

Subtitle from house program.
Durations: 31:38 (Introduction, synopses, and intermission features) ; 2:18:32 (opera).
Portion of Act 3 missing from this recording due to interruption of broadcast for special message from President Franklin Roosevelt, also not included on this recording.
Compact discs.
House program on file in Music Division.

Performer (note)

Zinka Milanov (Norma) ; Bruna Castagna (Adalgisa) ; Frederick Jagel (Pollione) ; Virgilio Lazzari (Oroveso) ; Thelma Votipka (Clotilde) ; Alessio De Paolis (Flavio) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; Cesare Sodero, conductor ; Milton Cross, broadcast announcer.

Event (note)

Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Feb. 12, 1944.

Source (note)

Metropolitan Opera;

Language (note)

Sung in Italian.

Contents

CD 1. Act 1 -- CD 2. Act 2 ; Act 3 (Incomplete) -- CD 3. Act 4 ; Closing remarks (Milton Cross) -- CD 4. Introduction (Cross) ; Pre-curtain feature (George A. Sloan address ; Edward Johnson gives a backstage glimpse of last minute preparations with Cesare Sodero, conductor, Mary Schenck, costume designer, and Frederick Jagel, tenor) ; Synopsis of Act 1 (Cross) ; Opera Forum Quiz (incomplete) (Mr. Sloan questions Robert Bagar, Olin Downes, George Marek, and Sigmund Spaeth) ; Synopsis of Act 2 (Cross) ; Column of the Air (incomplete) (Milton Cross presents the dramatized voices of opera lovers from around the country).

Call Number

*LDC 32548

Author

Bellini, Vincenzo, 1801-1835.

Title

Norma [sound recording] : opera in four acts / music by Vincenzo Bellini ; libretto by Felice Romani.

Series

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of] February 12, 1944

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of] February 12, 1944.

Cast

Zinka Milanov (Norma) ; Bruna Castagna (Adalgisa) ; Frederick Jagel (Pollione) ; Virgilio Lazzari (Oroveso) ; Thelma Votipka (Clotilde) ; Alessio De Paolis (Flavio) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; Cesare Sodero, conductor ; Milton Cross, broadcast announcer.

Event

Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Feb. 12, 1944.

Language

Sung in Italian.

Added Author

Milanov, Zinka. Performer

Castagna, Bruna. Performer

Jagel, Frederick. Performer. Commentator

Lazzari, Virgilio, 1887-1953. Performer

Votipka, Thelma. Performer

De Paolis, Alessio. Performer

Sodero, Cesare, 1886-1947. Conductor. Commentator

Cross, Milton, 1897-1975. Commentator

Sloan, George A. Commentator

Johnson, Edward, 1878-1959. Commentator

Schenck, Mary Percy. Commentator

Bagar, Robert C. Commentator

Downes, Olin, 1886-1955. Commentator

Marek, George R. (George Richard), 1902-1987. Commentator

Spaeth, Sigmund, 1885-1965. Commentator

Romani, Felice, 1788-1865. Librettist

Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.)

Added Title

Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (Radio program).

Gift of the Metropolitan Opera.

Metropolitan Opera Radio Broadcast collection.

Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (Radio program)

Research Call Number

*LDC 32548

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