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Rigoletto opera in four acts

Title: Rigoletto [sound recording] : opera in four acts / Giuseppe Verdi ; libretto by F.M. Piave.
Author: Verdi, Giuseppe, 1813-1901.

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Description

3 sound cassettes (198 min.) : stereo., Dolby-B processed.

Series Statement

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of \Feb. 5, 1972

Uniform Title

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

Alternative Title

Rigoletto

Subject

Operas

Note

Title from house program ; series title from Opera news.
Durations: 2:02:19 (opera) ; 1:16:00 (synopses and features).
Production notes and official cast list (6 p.) on file in the Rodgers and Hammerstein listening room.

Indexed In (note)

Opera news

Event (note)

Originally recorded in the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Feb. 5, 1972.

Language (note)

Sung in Italian.

Contents

side 1. Introduction and synopsis of act 1 (Milton Cross) ; Opera news on the air: Singers' Roundtable with Paul Hume, Charles Anthony, Paul Franke, and Andrea Velis ; Synopsis of act 2 (Cross) ; Texaco's opera quiz with Edward Downes, John Coveney, Siegmund Levarie, and Terry McEwen -- side 2. Synopsis of act 3 (Cross) ; Third intermission: Instruments of the orchestra (Robert Lawrence, Richard Nass, and Judith Raskin) ; Synopsis of act 4 (Cross) -- side 3. Act 1 -- side 4. Act 2 -- side 5. Act 3 -- side 6. Act 4 ; Closing remarks (Cross).

Call Number

*LTCM 42 (F)

OCLC

NYPG84-R705

Author

Verdi, Giuseppe, 1813-1901.

Title

Rigoletto [sound recording] : opera in four acts / Giuseppe Verdi ; libretto by F.M. Piave.

Playing Time

020219 011600

Series

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of \Feb. 5, 1972

Performer

Richard Tucker (Duke of Mantua) ; Robert Merrill (Rigoletto) ; Gail Robinson (Gilda) ; Justino Díaz (Sparafucile) ; Joann Grillo (Maddalena) ; Carlotta Ordassy (Giovanna) ; James Morris (Monterone) ; Raymond Gibbs (Marullo) ; Nico Castel (Borsa) ; Richard Best (Count Ceprano) ; Carol Wilcox (Countess Ceprano) ; Ivanka Myhal (page) ; Paul De Paloa (Chief Guard) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; Michelangelo Veltri, conductor ; Milton Cross, broadcast announcer.

Original Version

Re-recorded at NYPL, Apr., 1984, from borrowed copies (4 sound tape reels : 7 1/2 ips, 2 track, stereo. ; 10 in.) of the original recording.

Indexed In:

Opera news, v. 36, no. 11 (Feb. 5, 1972).

Event

Originally recorded in the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Feb. 5, 1972.

Language

Sung in Italian.

Added Author

Piave, Francesco Maria, 1810-1876. Librettist

Tucker, Richard, 1913-1975. Performer

Merrill, Robert, 1917-2004 Performer

Robinson, Gail, 1946- Performer

Díaz, Justino. Performer

Grillo, Joann. Performer

Ordassy, Carlotta. Performer

Morris, James, 1947- Performer

Gibbs, Raymond. Performer

Castel, Nico. Performer

Best, Richard, 1935- Performer

Wilcox, Carol Ann. Performer

Myhal, Ivanka. Performer

Paola, Paul de. Performer

Veltri, Michelangelo, 1940- Conductor

Cross, Milton, 1897-1975. Commentator

Hume, Paul, 1915- Commentator

Anthony, Charles, 1929-2012. Commentator

Franke, Paul, 1917-2011. Commentator

Velis, Andrea, 1932-1994. Commentator

Downes, Edward, 1911- Commentator

Coveney, John. Commentator

Levarie, Siegmund, 1914- Librettist

McEwen, Terry. Commentator

Lawrence, Robert, 1912- Commentator

Nass, Richard. Commentator

Raskin, Judith. 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)

Research Call Number

*LTCM 42 (F) (Production notes filed in listening room.)

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