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La forza del destino : [sound recording] : opera in three acts

Title: La forza del destino : radio broadcast, 1977-03-12 [sound recording] : opera in three acts / Giuseppe Verdi ; libretto by Francesco Maria Piave.
Author: Verdi, Giuseppe, 1813-1901.
Publication: Mar. 12, 1977.

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Not available - Please for assistance.	Audio	Use in library	*LTCM 818 (F) [Notes]	Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound
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Description

on 7 sides of 4 sound cassettes : analog, stereo., Dolby-B processed.

Series Statement

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of] Mar. 12, 1977

Uniform Title

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

Alternative Title

Forza del destino

Subjects

Note

Title from house program.
Production notes and official cast list (7 p.) on file.

Event (note)

Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, March 12, 1977.

Language (note)

Sung in Italian.

Contents

side 1. Introduction and synopsis of Act 1 (Peter Allen) ; Opera news on the air (Rosa Ponselle, interviewed by Robert Lawrence, recalls her 1918 debut as the Met's first Leonora) ; synopsis of Act 2 (Allen) -- side 2. Texaco's opera quiz (Edward Downes questions John Coveney, Gerald Fitzgerald, Martin Sokol, and William Weaver) ; synopsis of Act 3 (Allen) -- side 3. Act 1, part 1 -- side 4. Act 1, part 2 -- side 5. Act 2, part 1 -- side 6. Act 2, part 2 -- side 7. Act 3 ; Closing remarks (Allen).

Call Number

*LTCM 818

Author

Verdi, Giuseppe, 1813-1901.

Title

La forza del destino : radio broadcast, 1977-03-12 [sound recording] : opera in three acts / Giuseppe Verdi ; libretto by Francesco Maria Piave.

Imprint

Mar. 12, 1977.

Series

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of] Mar. 12, 1977

Performer

Leontyne Price (Leonora) ; Carlotta Ordassy (Curra) ; Rosalind Elias (Preziosilla) ; Plácido Domingo (Don Alvaro) ; Malcolm Smith (The Marquis of Calatrava) ; Andrij Dobriansky (The Mayor of Hornachuelos) ; Cornell MacNeil (Don Carlo) ; Andrea Velis (Trabucco) ; Renato Capecchi (Fra Melitone) ; Martti Talvela (Padre Guardiano) ; Robert Goodloe (A surgeon) ; Metropolitan Opera Chorus and Orchestra ; James Levine, conductor ; Peter Allen, broadcast announcer.

Event

Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, March 12, 1977.

Original Version

Cassette tape service copy re-recorded at NYPL in 1982, from borrowed masters (4 sound tape reels : 7 1/2 ips, 2 track, stereo. ; 10 in.) lent by the Metropolitan Opera.

Language

Sung in Italian.

Added Author

Piave, Francesco Maria, 1810-1876. Librettist

Price, Leontyne. Performer

Ordassy, Carlotta. Performer

Elias, Rosalind. Performer

Domingo, Plácido, 1941- Performer

Smith, Malcolm, 1933- Performer

Dobriansky, Andrij. Performer

MacNeil, Cornell, 1922- Performer

Velis, Andrea, 1932-1994. Performer

Capecchi, Renato. Performer

Talvela, Martti. Performer

Goodloe, Robert. Performer

Levine, James, 1943-2021. Conductor

Allen, Peter, 1920-2016. Commentator

Lawrence, Robert, 1912- Commentator

Ponselle, Rosa, 1897-1981. Commentator

Downes, Edward, 1911- Commentator

Coveney, John. Commentator

Fitzgerald, Gerald, 1932- Commentator

Sokol, Martin L. Commentator

Weaver, William, 1923-2013, 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)

Metropolitan Opera Radio Broadcast collection.

Research Call Number

*LTCM 818 Notes on file.

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