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Lucia di Lammermoor opera in three acts

Title: Lucia di Lammermoor [sound recording] : opera in three acts / music Gaetano Donizetti ; libretto by Salvatore Cammarano, based on Walter Scott's novel "The Bride of Lammermoor".
Author: Donizetti, Gaetano, 1797-1848.

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Description

3 sound tape reels (168 min.) : analog, 7 1/2 ips, 2 track, mono.; 10 in.

Series Statement

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Jan. 30, 1954]

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: 0:41:32 (synopses and features) ; 2:07:06 (opera).
Production notes and official cast list (3 p.) on file in the Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound.

Indexed In (note)

Opera news

Performer (note)

Lily Pons (Lucia) ; Frank Valentino (Enrico) ; Jan Peerce (Edgardo) ; Thelma Votipka (Alisa) ; Norman Scott (Raimondo) ; Thomas Hayward (Arturo) ; James McCracken (Normanno) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; Fausto Cleva, conductor ; Milton Cross, broadcast announcer.

Event (note)

Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Jan. 30, 1954.

Reproduction (note)

Service copy (2 sound cassettes : analog, mono., Dolby-B processed) available in: *LTCM 396 (F)

Language (note)

Sung in Italian.

Contents

side 1. Introduction and synopsis of act 1 (Milton Cross) ; Opera news on the air (Boris Goldovsky, host, with Blanche Yurka) ; Synopsis of act 2 (Cross) ; Texaco's opera quiz (Robert Lawrence, host, with Robert Bagar, Deems Taylor, and Walter Ducloux) ; Synopsis of act 3 (Cross) -- side 2. Act 1 -- side 3. Act 2 ; Act 3 through "Dalle stanze, ove Lucia" -- side 4. Act 3 concluded ; Closing remarks (Cross).

Call Number

*LT-10 5546

OCLC

NYPG90-R90

Author

Donizetti, Gaetano, 1797-1848.

Title

Lucia di Lammermoor [sound recording] : opera in three acts / music Gaetano Donizetti ; libretto by Salvatore Cammarano, based on Walter Scott's novel "The Bride of Lammermoor".

Playing Time

004132 020706

Series

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Jan. 30, 1954]

Cast

Lily Pons (Lucia) ; Frank Valentino (Enrico) ; Jan Peerce (Edgardo) ; Thelma Votipka (Alisa) ; Norman Scott (Raimondo) ; Thomas Hayward (Arturo) ; James McCracken (Normanno) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; Fausto Cleva, conductor ; Milton Cross, broadcast announcer.

Original Version

Preservation tape, recorded at NYPL in Dec. 1989, from aluminum-based acetates (6 sound discs : analog, 33 1/3 rpm, mono. ; 16 in.) lent by the Metropolitan Opera.

Indexed In:

Opera news, v. 18, no. 12 (Jan. 25, 1954).

Event

Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Jan. 30, 1954.

Reproduction

Service copy (2 sound cassettes : analog, mono., Dolby-B processed) available in: *LTCM 396 (F)

Language

Sung in Italian.

Added Author

Cammarano, Salvatore, 1801-1852. Librettist

Scott, Walter, 1771-1832. Bride of Lammermoor.

Pons, Lily, 1898-1976. Performer

Valentino, Frank. Performer

Peerce, Jan, 1904-1984. Performer

Votipka, Thelma. Performer

Scott, Norman, 1921-1968. Performer

Hayward, Thomas, 1921- Performer

McCracken, James, 1926- Performer

Cleva, Fausto. Conductor

Cross, Milton, 1897-1975. Commentator

Goldovsky, Boris. Commentator

Yurka, Blanche. Commentator

Lawrence, Robert, 1912- Commentator

Bagar, Robert C. Commentator

Taylor, Deems, 1885-1966. Commentator

Ducloux, Walter. 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

*LT-10 5546 Master tape. Request cassette service copy in *LTCM 396 (F)

*LTCM 396 (F) Cassette service copy; production notes on file. Master tape in *LT-10 5546.

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