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Turandot opera in three acts

Title: Turandot [sound recording] : opera in three acts / music by Giacomo Puccini, completed by Franco Alfano ; libretto by Giuseppe Adami and Renato Simoni, after plays by Gozzi and Schiller.
Author: Puccini, Giacomo, 1858-1924.

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Description

on 5 sides of 3 sound cassettes (188 min.) : analog, mono., Dolby-B processed.

Series Statement

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of 1966-12-03 (Dec. 3, 1966)]

Uniform Title

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

Subjects

Note

Titles from Opera news.
Durations: 1:07:30 (synopses and features) ; 2:00:35 (opera).
Production notes and official cast list (6 p.) on file in the Rodgers & Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound.

Indexed In (note)

Opera news

Event (note)

Originally broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Dec. 3, 1966.

Reproduction (note)

Service copy (3 sound cassettes : mono., Dolby-B processed) available in: *LTCM 247 (F)

Language (note)

Sung in Italian.

Contents

side 1. Introduction and synopsis of act 1 (Milton Cross) ; Opera news on the air (Ray Kennedy interviews Rudolf Bing) ; Synopsis of act 2 (Cross) -- side 2. Texaco's opera quiz (Edward Downes, host, with Mary Ellis Peltz, John Coveney, Jay Harrison and Marvin David Levy) ; Synopsis of act 3 (Cross) -- side 3. Act 1 -- side 4. Act 2 -- side 5. Act 3 ; Closing remarks (Cross).

Call Number

*LTCM 247 (F)

OCLC

NYPG87-R137

Author

Puccini, Giacomo, 1858-1924.

Title

Turandot [sound recording] : opera in three acts / music by Giacomo Puccini, completed by Franco Alfano ; libretto by Giuseppe Adami and Renato Simoni, after plays by Gozzi and Schiller.

Playing Time

010730 020035

Series

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of 1966-12-03 (Dec. 3, 1966)]

Performer

Birgit Nilsson (Princess Turandot) ; Franco Corelli (Calaf) ; Mirella Freni (Liu) ; Bonaldo Giaiotti (Timur) ; Mariano Caruso (Emperor Altoum) ; Theodor Uppman (Ping) ; Robert Nagy (Pang) ; Charles Anthony (Pong) ; Robert Goodloe (Mandarin) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; Zubin Mehta, conductor ; Milton Cross, broadcast announcer.

Original Version

Re-recorded at NYPL in Dec. 1986, from masters borrowed from the Metropolitan Opera (3 sound tape reels : 7 1/2 ips, 2 track, mono. ; 10 in.).

Indexed In:

Opera news, v. 31, no. 6 (Dec. 3, 1966).

Event

Originally broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Dec. 3, 1966.

Reproduction

Service copy (3 sound cassettes : mono., Dolby-B processed) available in: *LTCM 247 (F)

Language

Sung in Italian.

Added Author

Alfano, Franco, 1875-1954. Composer

Adami, Giuseppe, 1878-1946. Librettist

Simoni, Renato, 1875-1952. Librettist

Gozzi, Carlo, 1720-1806. Turandot.

Nilsson, Birgit. Performer

Corelli, Franco. Performer

Freni, Mirella, 1935-2020. Performer

Giaiotti, Bonaldo. Performer

Caruso, Mariano. Performer

Uppman, Theodor, 1920- Performer

Nagy, Robert, 1929- Performer

Anthony, Charles, 1929-2012. Performer

Goodloe, Robert. Performer

Mehta, Zubin. Conductor

Cross, Milton, 1897-1975. Commentator

Bing, Rudolf, 1902-1997. Commentator

Kennedy, Raymond F. Commentator

Downes, Edward, 1911- Commentator

Peltz, Mary Ellis, 1896-1981. Commentator

Coveney, John. Commentator

Harrison, Jay. Commentator

Levy, Marvin David. 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 247 (F) \(Production notes filed in listening room.)

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