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Falstaff opera in three acts

Title: Falstaff [sound recording] : opera in three acts / music by Giuseppe Verdi ; libretto by Arrigo Boito.
Author: Verdi, Giuseppe, 1813-1901.

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Description

3 sound cassettes (195 min.) : stereo, Dolby-B processed.

Series Statement

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Mar. 8, 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: 0:59:02 (synopses and features) ; 2:16:30 (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, Mar. 8, 1986.

Reproduction (note)

Service copy (3 sound cassettes : stereo, Dolby-B processed) available in: *LTCM 489 (F)

Language (note)

Sung in Italian.

Contents

side 1. Introduction and synopsis of act 1 (Peter Allen) ; Opera news on the air (Richard Mohr) ; Synopsis of act 2 (Allen) -- side 2. Texaco's opera quiz (Edward Downes, host, with Alberta Masiello, Samuel Paul and Bob Shore) ; Synopsis of act 3 (Allen) -- side 3. Act 1 -- side 4. Act 2 -- side 5. Act 3 through "Tutto nel mondo è Burla L'uom" -- side 6. Act 3 concluded ; Closing remarks (Allen).

Call Number

*LTCM 489 (F)

OCLC

NYPG91-R392

Author

Verdi, Giuseppe, 1813-1901.

Title

Falstaff [sound recording] : opera in three acts / music by Giuseppe Verdi ; libretto by Arrigo Boito.

Playing Time

005902 021630

Series

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Mar. 8, 1986]

Performer

Charles Anthony (Dr. Cajus) ; Giuseppe Taddei (Sir John Falstaff) ; Anthony Laciura (Bardolfo) ; Italo Tajo (Pistola) ; Brenda Boozer (Mrs. Meg Page) ; Carol Neblett (Mrs. Alice Ford) ; Fiorenza Cossotto (Mrs. Quickly) ; Judith Blegen (Nannetta) ; Douglas Ahlstedt (Fenton) ; Allan Monk (Ford) ; Constance Webber (Mistress of the Inn) ; Merle Schmidt (The Innkeeper) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; James Levine, 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. 12 (Mar. 1, 1986).

Event

Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Mar. 8, 1986.

Reproduction

Service copy (3 sound cassettes : stereo, Dolby-B processed) available in: *LTCM 489 (F)

Language

Sung in Italian.

Added Author

Boito, Arrigo, 1842-1918. Librettist

Anthony, Charles, 1929-2012. Performer

Taddei, Giuseppe. Performer

Laciura, Anthony. Performer

Tajo, Italo. Performer

Boozer, Brenda. Performer

Neblett, Carol. Performer

Cossotto, Fiorenza. Performer

Blegen, Judith. Performer

Ahlstedt, Douglas. Performer

Monk, Allan. Performer

Webber, Constance. Performer

Schmidt, Merle. Performer

Levine, James, 1943-2021. Conductor

Allen, Peter, 1920- Commentator

Milnes, Sherrill. Commentator

Mohr, Richard. Commentator

Downes, Edward, 1911- Commentator

Masiello, Alberta. Commentator

Paul, Samuel. Commentator

Shore, Bob. Performer

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 489 (F) (Production notes in listening room.)

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