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Faust : opera in four acts

Title: Faust : radio broadcast, 1940-04-06 [sound recording] : opera in four acts / music by Charles Gounod ; libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré, after Part I of Goethe's drama.
Author: Gounod, Charles, 1818-1893.

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Description

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

Donor/Sponsor

Gift of the Metropolitan Opera.

Series Statement

Metropolitan Opera Radio Broadcast ; [broadcast of] April 6, 1940
Metropolitan Opera Radio Broadcast ; [broadcast of] April 6, 1940.

Uniform Title

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

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Genre/Form

Live sound recordings.

Note

Subtitle from house program.
Compact discs.
Durations: 1:00:35 (Announcements, synopses and intermission features) ; 2:33:23 (opera).
House program on file in Music Division.

Performer (note)

Helen Jepson (Marguerite) ; Richard Crooks (Faust) ; Ezio Pinza (Méphistophélès) ; Leonard Warren (Valentin) ; Helen Olheim (Siebel) ; Thelma Votipka (Marthe) ; Wilfred Engelman (Wagner) ; Metropolitan Opera Chorus and Orchestra ; Wilfrid Pelletier, conductor ; Milton Cross, broadcast announcer.

Event (note)

Live broadcast during the Met's spring tour, from the Boston Opera House, Boston, Mass. April 6, 1940.

Source (note)

Metropolitan Opera;

Language (note)

Sung in French.

Contents

CD 1. Introduction and synopsis of Act 1 (Milton Cross) ; Act 1 -- CD 2. Act 2 -- CD 3. Act 3 ; Act 4 ; Closing remarks (Cross) -- CD 4. First intermission (Metropolitan Opera Fund update ; Synopsis of Act 2 ; Short biographical sketch of Ezio Pinza (Cross)) ; Second intermission feature (Gladys Swarthout gives her views on the critical situation of the Met) ; Synopsis of Act 3 (Cross) ; Third intermission feature (New England Conservatory director Wallace Goodrich speaks about the Met ; Richard Crooks speaks from his dressing room about the broadcasts and the Metropolitan Opera Fund) ; Synopsis of Act 4 (Cross).

Call Number

*LDC 32983

OCLC

NYPG06-R105

Author

Gounod, Charles, 1818-1893.

Title

Faust : radio broadcast, 1940-04-06 [sound recording] : opera in four acts / music by Charles Gounod ; libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré, after Part I of Goethe's drama.

Series

Metropolitan Opera Radio Broadcast ; [broadcast of] April 6, 1940

Metropolitan Opera Radio Broadcast ; [broadcast of] April 6, 1940.

Cast

Helen Jepson (Marguerite) ; Richard Crooks (Faust) ; Ezio Pinza (Méphistophélès) ; Leonard Warren (Valentin) ; Helen Olheim (Siebel) ; Thelma Votipka (Marthe) ; Wilfred Engelman (Wagner) ; Metropolitan Opera Chorus and Orchestra ; Wilfrid Pelletier, conductor ; Milton Cross, broadcast announcer.

Event

Live broadcast during the Met's spring tour, from the Boston Opera House, Boston, Mass. April 6, 1940.

Language

Sung in French.

Source

Gift; Metropolitan Opera; May, 2003.

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Added Author

Barbier, Jules, 1825-1901. Librettist

Carré, Michel, 1819-1872. Librettist

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832. Faust.

Jepson, Helen, 1904-1997. Performer

Crooks, Richard, 1900-1972. Performer

Pinza, Ezio. Performer

Warren, Leonard, 1911-1960. Performer

Olheim, Helen. Performer

Votipka, Thelma. Performer

Engelman, Wilfred. Performer

Pelletier, Wilfrid, 1896-1982. Conductor

Cross, Milton, 1897-1975. Commentator

Swarthout, Gladys, 1904- Commentator

Goodrich, Wallace, 1871-1952. Commentator

Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.)

Added Title

Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (Radio program).

Added Title

Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (Radio program)

Research Call Number

*LDC 32983

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