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Madama Butterfly opera in three acts in Italian

Title: Madama Butterfly [sound recording] : opera in three acts in Italian/ Giacomo Puccini ; libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa, after the work by John Luther Long and David Belasco.
Author: Puccini, Giacomo, 1858-1924.

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Description

3 sound cassettes (197 min.) : mono., Dolby-B processed.

Series Statement

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of \Apr. 16, 1960
Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of \Apr. 16, 1960.

Uniform Title

Madama Butterfly. Selections
Texaco's opera quiz (Radio program)
Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (Radio program)

Alternative Title

Madama Butterfly.

Subject

Operas

Note

Title and series title from Opera news.
Durations: 0:53:30 (synopses and features) ; 2:23:45 (opera).
Production notes and official cast list (6 p.) in Rodgers and Hammerstein listening room.

Indexed In (note)

Opera news

Event (note)

Originally recorded in the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Apr. 16, 1960.

Language (note)

Sung in Italian.

Contents

side 1. Introduction and synopsis of act 1 (Milton Cross) ; Texaco's opera quiz: Edward Downes, Mary Ellis Peltz, Jay Harrison, Robert Lawrence and Paul Jaretzki ; Synopsis of act 2 (Cross) -- side 2. Seasonal farewell: Rudolf Bing ; Synopsis of act 3 (Cross) -- side 3. Act 1 to Or son contenta -- side 4. Act 1 conclusion ; Act 2, to Il canone del porto! -- side 5. Act 2 conclusion -- side 6. Act 3 ; Closing remarks (Cross).

Call Number

*LTCM 125 (F)

OCLC

NYPG85-R188

Author

Puccini, Giacomo, 1858-1924.

Title

Madama Butterfly [sound recording] : opera in three acts in Italian/ Giacomo Puccini ; libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa, after the work by John Luther Long and David Belasco.

Playing Time

005330 022345

Series

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of \Apr. 16, 1960

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of \Apr. 16, 1960.

Performer

Dorothy Kirsten (Cio-Cio-San) ; Eugenio Fernandi (Pinkerton) ; Margaret Roggero (Suzuki) ; Mario Sereni (Sharpless) ; Charles Kullman (Goro) ; Osie Hawkins (Bonze) ; George Cehanovsky (Yamadori) ; Roald Reitan (Imperial Commissioner) ; Kurt Kessler (Registrar) ; Joan Wall (Kate Pinkerton) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; Dimitri Mitropoulos, conductor ; Milton Cross, broadcast announcer.

Original Version

Re-recorded at NYPL, Mar. 1985, from borrowed masters (4 sound tape reels : 7 1/2 ips, 1 track, mono. ; 10 in.).

Indexed In:

Opera news, v. 24, no. 24 (Apr. 16, 1960).

Event

Originally recorded in the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Apr. 16, 1960.

Language

Sung in Italian.

Added Author

Giacosa, Giuseppe, 1847-1906. Librettist

Illica, Luigi, 1857-1919. Librettist

Belasco, David, 1853-1931. Madame Butterfly.

Kirsten, Dorothy, 1910-1992. Commentator

Fernandi, Eugenio. Performer

Roggero, Margaret. Performer

Sereni, Mario. Performer

Kullman, Charles, 1903-1983. Performer

Hawkins, Osie. Performer

Cehanovsky, George, 1892-1986. Performer

Reitan, Roald. Performer

Kessler, Kurt. Performer

Wall, Joan. Performer

Mitropoulos, Dimitri, 1896-1960. Conductor

Cross, Milton, 1897-1975. Commentator

Downes, Edward, 1911- Commentator

Peltz, Mary Ellis, 1896-1981. Commentator

Harrison, Jay. Commentator

Lawrence, Robert, 1912- Commentator

Jaretzki, Paul. Commentator

Bing, Rudolf, 1902-1997. Commentator

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

Added Title

Texaco's opera quiz (Radio program)

Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (Radio program)

Research Call Number

*LTCM 125 (F) Production notes in listening room.

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