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Idomeneo dramma for music in three acts

Title: Idomeneo [sound recording] : dramma for music in three acts / music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ; libretto by Giambattista Varesco.
Author: Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791.

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Description

3 sound cassettes (229 min.) : stereo, Dolby-B processed.

Series Statement

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Feb. 15, 1986]

Uniform Title

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

Subject

Operas

Genre/Form

Live sound recordings.

Note

Title from house program ; series title from Opera news.
Durations: 0:48:12 (synopses and features) ; 3:00:57 (opera).
Production notes and official cast list (4 p.) on file in the Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound.

Indexed In (note)

Opera news

Event (note)

Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Feb. 15, 1986.

Reproduction (note)

Service copy (3 sound cassettes : stereo, Dolby-B processed) available in: *LTCM 486 (F)

Language (note)

Sung in Italian.

Contents

side 1. Introduction and synopsis of act 1 (Peter Allen) ; Opera news on the air (Boris Goldovsky) ; Synopsis of act 2 (Allen) ; Texaco's opera quiz (Edward Downes, host, with Alfred Hubay, Albert Innaurato and William Livingstone) -- side 2. Synopsis of act 3 (Allen) -- side 3. Overture ; Act 1 through "Vedrommi intorno l'ombra dolente" -- side 4. Act 1 concluded ; Act 2 through "Idol mio, se ritroso" -- side 5. Act 2 concluded ; Act 3 through "Se colà ne'fati è scritto" -- side 6. Act 3 concluded ; Closing remarks (Allen).

Call Number

*LTCM 486 (F)

OCLC

NYPG91-R391

Author

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791. Composer

Title

Idomeneo [sound recording] : dramma for music in three acts / music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ; libretto by Giambattista Varesco.

Playing Time

004812 030057

Series

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Feb. 15, 1986]

Performer

Benita Valente (Ilia) ; Frederica von Stade (Idamante) ; Loretta Di Franco, Batyah Godfrey Ben-David (Women of Crete) ; Charles Anthony, David Bernard (Trojan Soldiers) ; Hildegard Behrens (Elettra) ; John Alexander (Arbace) ; David Rendall (Idomeneo) ; Gary Lakes (High Priest) ; Richard J. Clark (Voice of Neptune) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; Jeffrey Tate, conductor ; Peter Allen, broadcast announcer.

Original Version

Re-recorded at NYPL in June 1991, from borrowed masters (3 sound tape reels : 7 1/2 ips, 2 track, stereo, ; 10 in.) lent by the Metropolitan Opera.

Indexed In:

Opera news, v. 50, no. 11 (Feb. 15, 1986).

Event

Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Feb. 15, 1986.

Reproduction

Service copy (3 sound cassettes : stereo, Dolby-B processed) available in: *LTCM 486 (F)

Language

Sung in Italian.

Added Author

Varesco, Giambattista. Librettist

Valente, Benita. Performer

Von Stade, Frederica. Performer

Di Franco, Loretta. Performer

Godfrey Ben-David, Batyah. Performer

Anthony, Charles, 1929-2012. Performer

Bernard, David. Performer

Behrens, Hildegard. Performer

Alexander, John, 1923-1990. Performer

Rendall, David. Performer

Lakes, Gary. Performer

Clark, Richard J. Performer

Tate, Jeffrey. Conductor

Allen, Peter, 1920- Commentator

Peters, Roberta, 1930-2017. Commentator

Goldovsky, Boris. Commentator

Downes, Edward, 1911- Commentator

Hubay, Alfred. Commentator

Innaurato, Albert, 1947-2017. Commentator

Livingstone, William. Commentator

Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.)

Added Title

Opera news on the air (Radio program)

Texaco's opera quiz (Radio program)

Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (Radio program)

Research Call Number

*LTCM 486 (F) (Production notes in listening room.)

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