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Così fan tutte opera in two acts

Title: Così fan tutte [sound recording] : opera in two acts / music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ; libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte ; new English version by Ruth and Thomas P. Martin.
Author: Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791.

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Description

4 sound tape reels (196 min.) : analog, 7 1/2 ips, 2 track, mono.; 10 in.

Series Statement

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Apr. 4, 1954]

Uniform Title

Così fan tutte. English
Texaco's opera quiz (Radio program)
Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (Radio program)

Alternative Title

Così fan tutte.

Subject

Operas

Genre/Form

Live sound recordings.

Note

Title from house program ; series title from Opera news.
Durations: 0:33:59 (synopses and features) ; 2:42:01 (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

Performer (note)

Eleanor Steber (Fiordiligi) ; Blanche Thebom (Dorabella) ; Patrice Munsel (Despina) ; Richard Tucker (Ferrando) ; Frank Guarrera (Guglielmo) ; John Brownlee (Don Alfonso) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; Fritz Stiedry, conductor ; Milton Cross, broadcast announcer.

Event (note)

Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Apr. 4, 1954.

Reproduction (note)

Service copy (3 sound cassettes : analog, mono., Dolby-B processed) available in: *LTCM 406 (F)

Language (note)

Sung in English.

Contents

side 1. Introduction and synopsis of act 1 (Milton Cross) ; Texaco's opera quiz (Robert Lawrence, host, with Mary Ellis Peltz, Deems Taylor, Walter Ducloux and Lorenzo Alvary) ; Synopsis of act 2 (Cross) -- side 2. [blank] -- side 3. Overture ; Act 1 through "Smanie implacabili" -- side 4. Act 1 concluded -- side 5. Act 2 through "Donne mie, la fate a tanti" -- side 6. Act 2 concluded ; Closing remarks (Cross).

Call Number

*LT-10 5556

OCLC

NYPG90-R305

Author

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791.

Title

Così fan tutte [sound recording] : opera in two acts / music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ; libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte ; new English version by Ruth and Thomas P. Martin.

Playing Time

003359 024201

Series

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Apr. 4, 1954]

Cast

Eleanor Steber (Fiordiligi) ; Blanche Thebom (Dorabella) ; Patrice Munsel (Despina) ; Richard Tucker (Ferrando) ; Frank Guarrera (Guglielmo) ; John Brownlee (Don Alfonso) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; Fritz Stiedry, conductor ; Milton Cross, broadcast announcer.

Original Version

Preservation tape, recorded at NYPL in Feb. 1990, 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. 18, no. 21 (Mar. 29, 1954).

Event

Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Apr. 4, 1954.

Reproduction

Service copy (3 sound cassettes : analog, mono., Dolby-B processed) available in: *LTCM 406 (F)

Language

Sung in English.

Added Author

Da Ponte, Lorenzo, 1749-1838. Librettist

Martin, Ruth Berenice Kelley, 1914- Librettist

Martin, Thomas Philipp, 1909- Librettist

Steber, Eleanor. Performer

Thebom, Blanche. Performer

Munsel, Patrice, 1925- Performer

Tucker, Richard, 1913-1975. Performer

Guarrera, Frank, 1923- Performer

Brownlee, John, 1901-1969. Performer

Stiedry, Fritz. Conductor

Cross, Milton, 1897-1975. Commentator

Lawrence, Robert, 1912- Commentator

Peltz, Mary Ellis, 1896-1981. Commentator

Taylor, Deems, 1885-1966. Commentator

Ducloux, Walter. Commentator

Alvary, Lorenzo, 1909- Commentator

Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.)

Added Title

Texaco's opera quiz (Radio program)

Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (Radio program)

Research Call Number

*LT-10 5556 Master tape. Request cassette service copy in *LTCM 406 (F)

*LTCM 406 (F) Cassette service copy; production notes on file. Master tape in *LT-10 5556.

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