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Don Giovanni opera in two acts

Title: Don Giovanni [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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Additional Authors

Description

4 sound tape reels (205 min.) : analog, 7 1/2 ips, 2 track, mono.; 10 in.

Series Statement

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Mar. 13, 1954]

Uniform Title

Don Giovanni
Texaco's opera quiz (Radio program)
Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (Radio program)

Alternative Title

Don Giovanni

Subject

Operas

Genre/Form

Live sound recordings.

Note

Title from house program ; series title from Opera news.
Durations: 0:33:22 (synopses and features) ; 2:52:00 (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)

George London (Don Giovanni) ; Margaret Harshaw (Donna Anna) ; Eleanor Steber (Donna Elvira) ; Nadine Conner (Zerlina) ; Lubomir Vichegonov (Il Commendatore) ; Eugene Conley (Don Ottavio) ; Fernando Corena (Leporello) ; Lorenzo Alvary (Masetto) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; Max Rudolf, conductor ; Milton Cross, broadcast announcer.

Event (note)

Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Mar. 13, 1954.

Reproduction (note)

Service copy (3 sound cassettes : analog, mono., Dolby-B processed) available in: *LTCM 402 (F)

Language (note)

Sung in Italian.

Contents

side 1. Introduction and synopsis of act 1 (Milton Cross) ; Texaco's opera quiz (Robert Lawrence, host, with Mary Ellis Peltz, Robert Bagar, Jay S. Harrison and Goddard Lieberson) ; Synopsis of act 2 (Cross) -- side 2. [blank] -- side 3. Overture ; Act 1 through "Ah! fuggi il traditor!" -- side 4. Act 1 concluded -- side 5. Act 2 through Milton Cross -- side 6. Act 2 concluded ; Closing remarks (Cross).

Call Number

*LT-10 5552

OCLC

NYPG90-R253

Author

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791.

Title

Don Giovanni [sound recording] : opera in two acts / music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ; libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte.

Playing Time

003322 025200

Series

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Mar. 13, 1954]

Cast

George London (Don Giovanni) ; Margaret Harshaw (Donna Anna) ; Eleanor Steber (Donna Elvira) ; Nadine Conner (Zerlina) ; Lubomir Vichegonov (Il Commendatore) ; Eugene Conley (Don Ottavio) ; Fernando Corena (Leporello) ; Lorenzo Alvary (Masetto) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; Max Rudolf, conductor ; Milton Cross, broadcast announcer.

Indexed In:

Opera news, v. 18, no. 18 (Mar. 8, 1954).

Event

Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Mar. 13, 1954.

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.

Reproduction

Service copy (3 sound cassettes : analog, mono., Dolby-B processed) available in: *LTCM 402 (F)

Language

Sung in Italian.

Added Author

Da Ponte, Lorenzo, 1749-1838. Librettist

London, George, 1920-1985. Performer

Harshaw, Margaret. Performer

Steber, Eleanor. Performer

Conner, Nadine. Performer

Vichegonov, Lubomir. Performer

Conley, Eugene, 1908-1981. Performer

Corena, Fernando. Performer

Alvary, Lorenzo, 1909- Performer

Rudolf, Max, 1902-1995. Conductor

Cross, Milton, 1897-1975. Commentator

Lawrence, Robert, 1912- Commentator

Peltz, Mary Ellis, 1896-1981. Commentator

Bagar, Robert C. Commentator

Harrison, Jay. Commentator

Lieberson, Goddard, 1911- 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 5552 Master tape. Request cassette service copy in *LTCM 402 (F)

*LTCM 402 (F) Cassette service copy; production notes on file. Master tape in *LT-10 5552.

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