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Don Carlo opera in four acts

Title: Don Carlo [sound recording] : opera in four acts / music by Giuseppe Verdi ; libretto by Joseph Méry and Camille Du Locle.
Author: Verdi, Giuseppe, 1813-1901.

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Description

4 sound tape reels (241 min.) : analog, 7 1/2 ips, 2 track, mono.; 10 in.

Series Statement

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Nov. 11, 1950]

Uniform Title

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

Alternative Title

Don Carlos.
Third intermission feature (Radio program)

Subject

Operas

Genre/Form

Live sound recordings.

Note

Title from house program ; series title from Opera news.
Durations: 1:04:06 (synopses and features) ; 2:56:48 (opera).
Production notes and official cast list (5 p.) on file in the Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound.

Indexed In (note)

Opera news

Performer (note)

Cesare Siepi (Philip II) ; Jussi Bjoerling (Don Carlo) ; Robert Merrill (Rodrigo) ; Jerome Hines (Grand Inquisitor) ; Lubomir Vichegonov (A friar) ; Delia Rigal (Elizabeth of Valois) ; Fedora Barbieri (Princess Eboli) ; Anne Bollinger (Theobald) ; Paul Franke (Count of Lerma) ; Emery Darcy (Royal herald) ; Lucine Amara (Celestial voice) ; Tilda Morse (Countess of Aremberg) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; Fritz Stiedry, conductor ; Milton Cross, broadcast announcer.

Event (note)

Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Nov.11, 1950.

Reproduction (note)

Service copy (4 sound cassettes : analog, mono., Dolby-B processed) available in: *LTCM 369 (F)

Language (note)

Sung in Italian.

Contents

side 1. Introduction and synopsis of act 1 (Milton Cross) ; Lauder Greenway introduces Mrs. August Belmont, who in turn introduces Boris Goldovsky ; Opera news on the air (Boris Goldovsky) ; Giovanni Martinelli ; Synopsis of act 2 (Cross) ; Texaco's opera quiz (Robert Lawrence, host, with Deems Taylor, Robert Bagar and George Marek) -- side 2. Synopsis of act 3 (Cross) ; Third intermission feature (George A. Sloan, host, with Warren R. Austin, General Carlos P. Romulo, Nazrollah Entezam and Rudolf Bing) ; Synopsis of act 4 (Cross) -- side 3. Act 1 through "Che mai si fa nel suol Francese" -- side 4. Act 1 concluded -- side 5. Act 2 -- side 6. Act 3 through "Pietà! perdon!...Ah! più non andrò" -- side 7. Act 3 concluded -- side 8. Act 4.

Call Number

*LT-10 4918

OCLC

NYPG89-R513

Author

Verdi, Giuseppe, 1813-1901.

Title

Don Carlo [sound recording] : opera in four acts / music by Giuseppe Verdi ; libretto by Joseph Méry and Camille Du Locle.

Playing Time

010406 025648

Series

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Nov. 11, 1950]

Cast

Cesare Siepi (Philip II) ; Jussi Bjoerling (Don Carlo) ; Robert Merrill (Rodrigo) ; Jerome Hines (Grand Inquisitor) ; Lubomir Vichegonov (A friar) ; Delia Rigal (Elizabeth of Valois) ; Fedora Barbieri (Princess Eboli) ; Anne Bollinger (Theobald) ; Paul Franke (Count of Lerma) ; Emery Darcy (Royal herald) ; Lucine Amara (Celestial voice) ; Tilda Morse (Countess of Aremberg) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; Fritz Stiedry, conductor ; Milton Cross, broadcast announcer.

Original Version

Preservation tape, recorded at NYPL in July, 1989, from aluminum-based acetates (8 sound discs : analog, 33 1/3 rpm, mono. ; 16 in.) lent by the Metropolitan Opera.

Indexed In:

Opera news, v. 15, no. 3 (Nov. 6, 1950).

Event

Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Nov.11, 1950.

Reproduction

Service copy (4 sound cassettes : analog, mono., Dolby-B processed) available in: *LTCM 369 (F)

Language

Sung in Italian.

Added Author

Méry, Joseph, 1798-1865. Librettist

Du Locle, Camille, 1832-1903. Librettist

Siepi, Cesare. Performer

Björling, Jussi, 1911-1960. Performer

Merrill, Robert, 1917-2004 Performer

Hines, Jerome, 1921- Performer

Vichegonov, Lubomir. Performer

Rigal, Delia. Performer

Barbieri, Fedora. Performer

Bollinger, Anne, 1919-1963. Performer

Franke, Paul, 1917-2011. Performer

Darcy, Emery. Performer

Amara, Lucine. Performer

Morse, Tilda. Performer

Stiedry, Fritz. Conductor

Cross, Milton, 1897-1975. Commentator

Martinelli, Giovanni, 1885-1969. Commentator

Goldovsky, Boris. Commentator

Greenway, Lauder. Commentator

Belmont, Eleanor Robson, 1879- Commentator

Lawrence, Robert, 1912- Commentator

Taylor, Deems, 1885-1966. Commentator

Bagar, Robert C. Commentator

Marek, George R. (George Richard), 1902-1987. Commentator

Sloan, George A. Commentator

Bing, Rudolf, 1902-1997. Commentator

Austin, Warren Robinson, 1877- Commentator

Romulo, Carlos P. (Carlos Peña), 1899-1985. Commentator

Entezam, Nazrollah. Commentator

Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.)

Added Title

Opera news on the air (Radio program)

Texaco's opera quiz (Radio program)

Third intermission feature (Radio program)

Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (Radio program)

Research Call Number

*LT-10 4918 Master tape. Request cassette service copy in *LTCM 369 (F)

*LTCM 369 (F) Cassette service copy; production notes on file. Master tape in *LT-10 4918.

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