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Giacomo Puccini's Tosca [sound recording] : opera in three acts

Title: Giacomo Puccini's Tosca [sound recording] : opera in three acts libretto by Victorien Sardou, Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa.
Author: Puccini, Giacomo, 1858-1924.

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Description

On 5 sides of 3 sound cassettes (180 min.) : stereo., Dolby B processed.

Series Statement

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Feb. 8, 1975

Uniform Title

Tosca
Opera news on the air (Radio program)
Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (Radio program)

Alternative Title

Tosca
Tosca.

Subjects

Note

Title from house program ; series title from Opera news.
Durations: 2:02:00 (opera) ; 58:00 (synopses and features).
Official cast list and production notes (6 p.) on file in the Rodgers and Hammerstein listening room.

Indexed In (note)

Opera news

Performer (note)

Teresa Zylis-Gara (Tosca) ; Carlo Bergonzi (Cavaradossi) ; Gabriel Bacquier (Scarpia) ; Charles Anthony (Spoleta) ; Louis Sgarro (Angelotti) ; Russell Christopher (Sciarrone) ; Fernando Corena (Sacristan) ; Paul Offenkrantz (Shepherd) ; Arthur Thompson (Jailer) ; Metropolitan Opera Chorus and Orchestra ; Alberto Erede, conductor ; Peter Allen, broadcast announcer.

Event (note)

Originally recorded in the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Feb. 8, 1975.

Language (note)

Sung in Italian.

Contents

side 1. Introduction and synopsis of act 1 (Peter Allen) ; Opera news on the air: Five generations of the Puccini family (William Weaver) ; Synopsis of act 2 (Allen) -- side 2. A record collector's roundtable (John Ardoin ; Ivan Davis ; Terry McEwen ; Edward Downes, moderator) ; Synopsis of act 3 (Allen) -- side 3. Act 1 -- side 4. Act 2 -- side 5. Act 3 -- side 6. Blank.

Call Number

*LTCM 6 (F)

OCLC

NYPG83-R137

Author

Puccini, Giacomo, 1858-1924.

Title

Giacomo Puccini's Tosca [sound recording] : opera in three acts libretto by Victorien Sardou, Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa.

Playing Time

020200 005800

Series

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Feb. 8, 1975

Cast

Teresa Zylis-Gara (Tosca) ; Carlo Bergonzi (Cavaradossi) ; Gabriel Bacquier (Scarpia) ; Charles Anthony (Spoleta) ; Louis Sgarro (Angelotti) ; Russell Christopher (Sciarrone) ; Fernando Corena (Sacristan) ; Paul Offenkrantz (Shepherd) ; Arthur Thompson (Jailer) ; Metropolitan Opera Chorus and Orchestra ; Alberto Erede, conductor ; Peter Allen, broadcast announcer.

Original Version

Re-recorded at NYPL, Sept. 1982, from borrowed copies (3 sound tape reels ; 7 1/2 ips, 2 track, stereo. ; 10 in.) of the original recording.

Indexed In:

Opera news, v. 39, no. 14 (Feb. 8, l975).

Event

Originally recorded in the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Feb. 8, 1975.

Language

Sung in Italian.

Added Author

Sardou, Victorien, 1831-1908. Tosca.

Illica, Luigi, 1857-1919. Librettist

Giacosa, Giuseppe, 1847-1906. Librettist

Zylis-Gara, Teresa. Performer

Bergonzi, Carlo. Performer

Bacquier, Gabriel. Performer

Anthony, Charles, 1929-2012. Performer

Sgarro, Louis, 1920-1985. Performer

Christopher, Russell. Performer

Corena, Fernando. Performer

Offenkrantz, Paul. Performer

Thompson, Arthur, 1942-2004. Performer

Erede, Alberto. Conductor

Allen, Peter, 1920- Commentator

Weaver, William, 1923-2013, commentator.

Ardoin, John. Commentator

Davis, Ivan. Commentator

McEwen, Terry. Commentator

Downes, Edward, 1911- Commentator

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

Added Title

Opera news on the air (Radio program)

Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (Radio program)

Tosca.

Research Call Number

*LTCM 6 (F) (Production notes filed in listening room.)

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