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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 (197 min.) : analog, 7 1/2 ips, 2 track, mono.; 10 in.

Series Statement

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Jan. 6, 1951]

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: 0:31:00 (synopses and features) ; 2:46:30 (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)

Paolo Silveri (Don Giovanni) ; Ljuba Welitsch (Donna Anna) ; Regina Resnik (Donna Elvira) ; Nadine Conner (Zerlina) ; Nicola Moscona (Il Commendatore) ; Eugene Conley (Don Ottavio) ; Salvatore Baccaloni (Leporello) ; Lorenzo Alvary (Masetto) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; Fritz Reiner, conductor ; Milton Cross, broadcast announcer.

Event (note)

Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Jan. 6, 1951.

Reproduction (note)

Service copy (3 sound cassettes : analog, mono., Dolby-B processed) available in: *LTCM 377 (F)

Language (note)

Sung in Italian.

Contents

side 1. Introduction and synopsis of act 1 (Milton Cross) ; Texaco's opera quiz (Deems Taylor, host, with Sigmund Spaeth, Mary Ellis Peltz and Louis Biancolli) ; Mrs. August Belmont and Milton Cross discuss the Metropolitan Opera Fund ; 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 Synopsis of act 2, scene 2 -- side 6. Act 2 concluded ; Closing remarks (Cross).

Call Number

*LT-10 4926

OCLC

NYPG89-R532

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

003100 024630

Series

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Jan. 6, 1951]

Cast

Paolo Silveri (Don Giovanni) ; Ljuba Welitsch (Donna Anna) ; Regina Resnik (Donna Elvira) ; Nadine Conner (Zerlina) ; Nicola Moscona (Il Commendatore) ; Eugene Conley (Don Ottavio) ; Salvatore Baccaloni (Leporello) ; Lorenzo Alvary (Masetto) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; Fritz Reiner, conductor ; Milton Cross, broadcast announcer.

Indexed In:

Opera news, v. 15, no. 11 (Jan. 1, 1951).

Event

Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Jan. 6, 1951.

Original Version

Preservation tape, recorded at NYPL in Sept. 1989, 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 377 (F)

Language

Sung in Italian.

Added Author

Da Ponte, Lorenzo, 1749-1838. bt.

Silveri, Paolo. Performer

Welitsch, Ljuba. Performer

Resnik, Regina, 1922-2013. Performer

Conner, Nadine. Performer

Moscona, Nicola. Performer

Conley, Eugene, 1908-1981. Performer

Baccaloni, Salvatore, 1900-1969. Performer

Alvary, Lorenzo, 1909- Performer

Reiner, Fritz, 1888-1963. Conductor

Cross, Milton, 1897-1975. Commentator

Belmont, Eleanor Robson, 1879- Commentator

Taylor, Deems, 1885-1966. Commentator

Spaeth, Sigmund, 1885-1965. Commentator

Peltz, Mary Ellis, 1896-1981. Commentator

Biancolli, Louis. 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 4926 Master tape. Request cassette service copy in *LTCM 377 (F)

*LTCM 377 (F) Cassette service copy; production notes on file. Master tape in *LT-10 4926.

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