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Esclarmonde opera in four acts, including a prologue and epilogue

Title: Esclarmonde [sound recording] : opera in four acts, including a prologue and epilogue / music by Jules Massenet ; libretto by Alfred Blau and Louis de Gramont.
Author: Massenet, Jules, 1842-1912.

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Description

3 sound cassettes : analog, stereo., Dolby-B processed.

Series Statement

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of] Dec. 11, 1976

Uniform Title

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

Subjects

Genre/Form

Live sound recordings.

Note

Title from house program.
Production notes and official cast list (6 p.) on file.

Event (note)

Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, December 11, 1976.

Language (note)

Sung in French.

Contents

side 1. Introduction and synopsis of Prologue and Act 1 (Peter Allen) ; Opera news on the air (Richard Bonynge on Massenet and Esclarmonde) ; synopsis of Act 2 (Allen) ; Texaco's opera quiz (Edward Downes questions Gerald Fitzgerald, Paul Hume, and Alberta Masiello) -- side 2. synopsis of Act 3 (Allen) ; Metropolitan Opera Madrigal Singers (Alma Jean Smith, Shirley Love, Nico Castel, Robert Schmorr, Richard Best, and Gene Boucher) ; synopsis of Act 4 and Epilogue (Allen) -- side 3. Prologue ; Act 1 -- side 4. Act 2 -- side 5. Act 3 -- side 6. Act 4 ; Epilogue ; Closing remarks (Allen).

Call Number

*LTCM 805

OCLC

NYPG06-R23

Author

Massenet, Jules, 1842-1912.

Title

Esclarmonde [sound recording] : opera in four acts, including a prologue and epilogue / music by Jules Massenet ; libretto by Alfred Blau and Louis de Gramont.

Series

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of] Dec. 11, 1976

Performer

Joan Sutherland (Esclarmonde) ; Huguette Tourangeau (Parséïs) ; Giacomo Aragall (The Chevalier Roland) ; Louis Quilico (The Bishop of Blois) ; John Macurdy (Cléomer, King of France) ; Clifford Grant (The Emperor Phorcas) ; John Carpenter (Enéas) ; Charles Anthony (A Saracen envoy) ; Paul Franke (A Byzantine herald) ; Metropolitan Opera Chorus and Orchestra ; Richard Bonynge., conductor ; Peter Allen, broadcast announcer.

Event

Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, December 11, 1976.

Original Version

Cassette tape service copy re-recorded at NYPL in 1982 from borrowed masters (3 sound tape reels : 7 1/2 ips., 2 track, stereo. ; 10 in.) lent by the Metropolitan Opera.

Language

Sung in French.

Added Author

Blau, Alfred. Librettist

Gramont, Louis de, 1854-1912. Librettist

Sutherland, Joan, 1926-2010. Performer

Tourangeau, Huguette. Performer

Aragall, Giacomo. Performer

Quilico, Louis. Performer

Macurdy, John. Performer

Grant, Clifford. Performer

Carpenter, John (Singer)

Anthony, Charles, 1929-2012. Performer

Franke, Paul, 1917-2011. Performer

Bonynge, Richard. Conductor. Commentator

Allen, Peter, 1920-2016. Commentator

Downes, Edward, 1911- Commentator

Fitzgerald, Gerald, 1932- Commentator

Hume, Paul, 1915- Commentator

Masiello, Alberta. Commentator

Smith, Alma Jean. Performer

Love, Shirley. Performer

Castel, Nico. prfd

Schmorr, Robert. Performer

Best, Richard, 1935- Performer

Boucher, Gene. Performer

Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.)

Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.). Madrigal Singers. Performer

Added Title

Opera news on the air (Radio program)

Texaco's opera quiz (Radio program)

Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (Radio program)

Research Call Number

*LTCM 805 Notes on file.

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