Research Catalog

Title

Cosí fan tutte [sound recording] : opera in two acts / music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ; libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte.

Author

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791

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Details

Additional Authors

• Da Ponte, Lorenzo, 1749-1838
• Lopardo, Frank
• Cowan, Richard
• Feller, Carlos
• Vaness, Carol
• Ziegler, Delores
• Upshaw, Dawn
• Hager, Leopold
• Volpe, Joseph
• Kinnear, James W.
• Horne, Marilyn
• Allen, Peter, 1920-
• Utley, Garrick, 1939-
• Feld, Jindřich, 1925-2007.
• Christ, Jürgen
• Caramzulesco, Dowena
• Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.)
• Metropolitan Opera Radio Broadcast collection

Description

4 sound discs : digital, stereo; 4 3/4 in.

Donor/Sponsor

Gift of Metropolitan Opera.

Series Statement

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Dec. 7, 1991]

Uniform Title

Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (Radio program)

Subject

• Operas

Genre/Form

Live sound recordings.

Note

• Title from house program ; series title from Opera news.
• Durations: 0:32:18 (synopses and features) ; 2:55:15 (opera).
• Production notes and official cast list (4 p.) on file in the Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound.
• Compact discs.
• House program on file in Music Division.

Indexed In (note)

• Opera news

Performer (note)

• Frank Lopardo (Ferrando) ; Richard Cowan (Guglielmo) ; Carlos Feller (Don Alfonso) ; Carol Vaness (Fiordiligi) ; Delores Ziegler (Dorabella) ; Dawn Upshaw (Despina) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; Leopold Hager, conductor ; Peter Allen, broadcast announcer.

Event (note)

• Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Dec. 7, 1991.

Reproduction (note)

• Preservation copy (3 sound cassettes : stereo, Dolby-B processed) available in: *LTCM 597 (F)

Source (note)

• Metropolitan Opera;

Language (note)

• Sung in Italian.

Contents

CD 1. Introduction and synopsis of Act 1 (Peter Allen) ; Act 1, pt. 1 -- CD 2. Act 1, pt. 2 through Act 2, pt. 1 -- CD 3. Act 2 concluded ; Closing remarks (Allen) -- CD 4. Joseph Volpe introduces James W. Kinnear ; Garrick Utley talks via telephone with broadcasters in Romania (Ms. Dowena Caramzulesco) , Czechoslovakia (Jindřich Feld, of Czechoslovak Radio, Prague), and Germany (Jürgen Christ, of Klassik Radio, Hamburg) ; Marilyn Horne ; Synopsis of act 2 (Allen).

Call Number

*LDC 30392

OCLC

NYPG92-R1384

Author

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791.

Title

Cosí fan tutte [sound recording] : opera in two acts / music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ; libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte.

Series

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Dec. 7, 1991]

Cast

Frank Lopardo (Ferrando) ; Richard Cowan (Guglielmo) ; Carlos Feller (Don Alfonso) ; Carol Vaness (Fiordiligi) ; Delores Ziegler (Dorabella) ; Dawn Upshaw (Despina) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; Leopold Hager, conductor ; Peter Allen, broadcast announcer.

Original Version

Re-recorded at NYPL in June, 1992, 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. 56, no. 6 (Dec. 7, 1991).

Event

Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Dec. 7, 1991.

Reproduction

Preservation copy (3 sound cassettes : stereo, Dolby-B processed) available in: *LTCM 597 (F)

Language

Sung in Italian.

Connect to:

Request Access to Music Division Audio and Moving Image material

Added Author

Da Ponte, Lorenzo, 1749-1838. Librettist

Lopardo, Frank. Performer

Cowan, Richard. Performer

Feller, Carlos. Performer

Vaness, Carol. Performer

Ziegler, Delores. Performer

Upshaw, Dawn. Performer

Hager, Leopold. Conductor

Volpe, Joseph. Commentator

Kinnear, James W. Commentator

Horne, Marilyn. Commentator

Allen, Peter, 1920- Commentator

Utley, Garrick, 1939- Commentator

Feld, Jindřich, 1925-2007. Commentator

Christ, Jürgen. Commentator

Caramzulesco, Dowena. Commentator

Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.)

Added Title

Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (Radio program)

Research Call Number

*LDC 30392 Service copy.

*LTCM 597 (F) Preservation copy. (Production notes on file.) Use service copy in *LDC 30392.