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Giacomo Puccini's Manon Lescaut opera in four acts

Title: Giacomo Puccini's Manon Lescaut [sound recording] : opera in four acts / based on the novel of Abbé Prévost.
Author: Puccini, Giacomo, 1858-1924.

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Description

3 sound cassettes (192 min.) : stereo., Dolby B processed.

Series Statement

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

Uniform Title

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

Alternative Title

Manon Lescaut
Manon Lescaut.

Subjects

Note

Title from house program ; series title from Opera news.
Durations: 2:07:00 (opera) ; 1:05:00 (synopses and features).
Official cast list and program notes (6 p.) on file in the Rodgers and Hammerstein listening room.

Indexed In (note)

Opera news

Performer (note)

Dorothy Kirsten (Manon Lescaut) ; John Alexander (Des Grieux) ; William Walker (Lescaut) ; Jon Garrison (Edmondo) ; Raymond Michalski (Geronte) ; Gene Boucher (Innkeeper) ; Jean Kraft (Musician) ; Nico Castel (Lamplighter) ; Suzanne Der Derian (Singer) ; Elena Doria (Singer) ; Shinja Kwak (Singer) ; Joyce Olson (Singer) ; Metropolitan Opera Chorus and Orchestra ; Peter Herman Adler, conductor ; Peter Allen, broadcast announcer.

Event (note)

Originally recorded in the Metropolitan Opera House new York City, Mar. 8, 1975.

Language (note)

Sung in Italian.

Contents

side 1. Introduction and synopsis of act 1 (Peter Allen) ; Opera news on the air: William Weaver discusses Manon Lescaut as Puccini's farewell to youth (part 1) ; Synopsis of act 2 (Allen) ; Texaco's opera quiz (John Coveney ; Bill Hudson ; Terry McEwen ; Walter Slezak ; Edward Downes, quizmaster), beginning -- side 2. Texaco's opera quiz, end ; Synopsis of act 3 (Allen) ; William Weaver discusses Manon Lescaut, part 2 ; Synopsis of act 4 (Allen) -- side 3. Act 1 -- side 4. Act 2 -- side 5. Act 3 -- side 6. Act 4 ; Closing remarks (Allen).

Call Number

*LTCM 8 (F)

OCLC

NYPG83-R143

Author

Puccini, Giacomo, 1858-1924.

Title

Giacomo Puccini's Manon Lescaut [sound recording] : opera in four acts / based on the novel of Abbé Prévost.

Playing Time

020700 010500

Series

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

Cast

Dorothy Kirsten (Manon Lescaut) ; John Alexander (Des Grieux) ; William Walker (Lescaut) ; Jon Garrison (Edmondo) ; Raymond Michalski (Geronte) ; Gene Boucher (Innkeeper) ; Jean Kraft (Musician) ; Nico Castel (Lamplighter) ; Suzanne Der Derian (Singer) ; Elena Doria (Singer) ; Shinja Kwak (Singer) ; Joyce Olson (Singer) ; Metropolitan Opera Chorus and Orchestra ; Peter Herman Adler, conductor ; Peter Allen, broadcast announcer.

Original Version

Re-recorded at NYPL, Oct. 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. 17 (March 8, 1975).

Event

Originally recorded in the Metropolitan Opera House new York City, Mar. 8, 1975.

Language

Sung in Italian.

Added Author

Prévost, abbé, 1697-1763. Manon Lescaut.

Kirsten, Dorothy, 1910-1992. Performer

Alexander, John, 1923-1990. Performer

Walker, William, 1931- Performer

Garrison, Jon. Performer

Michalski, Raymond. Performer

Boucher, Gene. Performer

Kraft, Jean. Performer

Sgarro, Louis, 1920-1985. Performer

Dobriansky, Andrij. Performer

Castel, Nico. Performer

Der Derian, Suzanne. Performer

Doria, Elena. Performer

Kwak, Shinja. Performer

Olson, Joyce. Performer

Adler, Peter Herman. Conductor

Allen, Peter, 1920- Commentator

Weaver, William, 1923-2013, commentator.

Coveney, John. Commentator

Hudson, Bill. Commentator

McEwen, Terry. Commentator

Slezak, Walter, 1902- Commentator

Downes, Edward, 1911- Commentator

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

Added Title

Opera news on the air (Radio program)

Texaco's opera quiz (Radio program)

Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (Radio program)

Manon Lescaut.

Research Call Number

*LTCM 8 (F) (Production notes on file in listening room.)

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