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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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Description

4 sound tape reels (203 min.) : analog, 7 1/2 ips, 2 track, mono.; 10 in.

Series Statement

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Feb. 12, 1955]

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: 0:33:45 (synopses and features) ; 2:49:45 (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)

Cesare Siepi (Don Giovanni) ; Margaret Harshaw (Donna Anna) ; Lucine Amara (Donna Elvira) ; Roberta Peters (Zerlina) ; Luben Vichey (Il Commendatore) ; Cesare Valletti (Don Ottavio) ; Fernando Corena (Leporello) ; Lawrence Davidson (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, Feb. 12, 1955.

Reproduction (note)

Service copy (3 sound cassettes : analog, mono., Dolby-B processed) available in: *LTCM 418 (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 Deems Taylor, George Marek, Robert Bagar and Jay Harrison) ; 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 "Il mio tesoro intanto" -- side 6. Act 2 concluded ; Closing remarks (Cross).

Call Number

*LT-10 6084

OCLC

NYPG90-R713

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

003345 024945

Series

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Feb. 12, 1955]

Cast

Cesare Siepi (Don Giovanni) ; Margaret Harshaw (Donna Anna) ; Lucine Amara (Donna Elvira) ; Roberta Peters (Zerlina) ; Luben Vichey (Il Commendatore) ; Cesare Valletti (Don Ottavio) ; Fernando Corena (Leporello) ; Lawrence Davidson (Masetto) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; Max Rudolf, conductor ; Milton Cross, broadcast announcer.

Indexed In:

Opera news, v. 19, no. 14 (Feb. 7, 1955).

Event

Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Feb. 12, 1955.

Original Version

Preservation tape, recorded at NYPL in Apr. 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 418 (F)

Language

Sung in Italian.

Added Author

Da Ponte, Lorenzo, 1749-1838. Librettist

Siepi, Cesare. Performer

Harshaw, Margaret. Performer

Amara, Lucine. Performer

Peters, Roberta, 1930-2017. Performer

Vichegonov, Lubomir. Performer

Valletti, Cesare. Performer

Corena, Fernando. Performer

Davidson, Lawrence (Baritone) Performer

Rudolf, Max, 1902-1995. Conductor

Cross, Milton, 1897-1975. Commentator

Lawrence, Robert, 1912- Commentator

Taylor, Deems, 1885-1966. Commentator

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

Bagar, Robert C. Commentator

Harrison, Jay. 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 6084 Master tape. Request cassette service copy in *LTCM 418 (F)

*LTCM 418 (F) Cassette service copy; production notes on file. Master tape in *LT-10 6084.

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