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Gioacchino Rossini's The siege of Corinth opera in three acts

Title: Gioacchino Rossini's The siege of Corinth [sound recording] : opera in three acts / libretto by Luigi Balocchi and Alexandre Soumet.
Author: Rossini, Gioacchino, 1792-1868.

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Description

on 7 sides of 4 sound cassettes (201 min.) : stereo., Dolby-B processed.

Series Statement

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Apr. 19, 1975

Uniform Title

Siège de Corinthe. Italian
Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (Radio program)
Opera news on the air (Radio program)

Alternative Title

Siège de Corinthe.

Subjects

Note

Title from house program ; series title from Opera news.
Durations: 2:24:00 (opera) ; 0:57:00 (synopses and features).
Official cast list and production notes (7 p.) on file in the Rodgers and Hammerstein listening room.

Indexed In (note)

Opera news

Performer (note)

Beverly Sills (Pamira) ; Justino Díaz (Maometto) ; Shirley Verrett (Neocle) ; Harry Theyard (Cleomene) ; Betsy Norden (Ismene) ; Richard T. Gill (Jero) ; Richard Best (Omar) ; Arthur Thompson (Adrasto) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; Thomas Schippers, conductor ; Peter Allen, broadcast announcer.

Event (note)

Originally recorded in the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Apr. 19, 1975

Language (note)

Sung in Italian.

Contents

side 1. Introduction and synopsis of act 1 (Peter Allen) ; Opera news on the air: Richard Woitach and David Stivender present a musical and dramatic analysis of The siege of Corinth ; Synopsis of act 2 (Allen) -- side 2. Intermission feature: Season closing remarks (Schuyler Chapin) ; Synopsis of act 3 (Allen) -- side 3. Act 1 to La morte che imploro de ponga ristoro a tento dolor -- side 4. Act 1, conclusion -- side 5. Act 2 -- side 6. Act 3 to Ci rivedremo in ciel -- side 7. Act 3, conclusion ; Closing remarks (Allen).

Call Number

*LTCM 12 (F)

OCLC

NYPG83-R165

Author

Rossini, Gioacchino, 1792-1868.

Title

Gioacchino Rossini's The siege of Corinth [sound recording] : opera in three acts / libretto by Luigi Balocchi and Alexandre Soumet.

Playing Time

022400 005700

Series

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Apr. 19, 1975

Cast

Beverly Sills (Pamira) ; Justino Díaz (Maometto) ; Shirley Verrett (Neocle) ; Harry Theyard (Cleomene) ; Betsy Norden (Ismene) ; Richard T. Gill (Jero) ; Richard Best (Omar) ; Arthur Thompson (Adrasto) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; Thomas Schippers, conductor ; Peter Allen, broadcast announcer.

Original Version

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

Indexed In:

Opera news, v. 39, no. 21 (April 19, 1975).

Event

Originally recorded in the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Apr. 19, 1975

Language

Sung in Italian.

Added Author

Balocchi, Luigi, 1766-1832. Librettist

Soumet, Alexandre, 1786-1845. Librettist

Sills, Beverly. Performer

Díaz, Justino. Performer

Verrett, Shirley. Performer

Theyard, Harry. Performer

Norden, Betsy. Performer

Gill, Richard T. (Richard Thomas), 1927-2010. Performer

Best, Richard, 1935- Performer

Thompson, Arthur, 1942-2004. Performer

Schippers, Thomas. Conductor

Allen, Peter, 1920- Commentator

Woitach, Richard. Commentator

Stivender, David. Commentator

Chapin, Schuyler. Commentator

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

Added Title

Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (Radio program)

Opera news on the air (Radio program)

Siège de Corinthe.

Research Call Number

*LTCM 12 (F) (Production notes filed in listening room.)

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