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Pelléas et Mélisande opera in five acts

Title: Pelléas et Mélisande [sound recording] : opera in five acts / Claude Debussy ; play by Maurice Maeterlinck.
Author: Debussy, Claude, 1862-1918.

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Description

3 sound cassettes (226 min.) : analog, mono., Dolby-B processed.

Series Statement

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of \Dec. 29, 1962\621229\]

Uniform Title

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

Subject

Note

Title from house program ; series title from Opera news.
Durations: 0:59:20 (synopses and features) ; 2:46:20 (opera).
Production notes and official cast list (6 p.) on file in the Rodgers & Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound.

Indexed In (note)

Opera news

Performer (note)

Anna Moffo (Mélisande) ; Nicolai Gedda (Pelléas) ; George London (Golaud) ; Blanche Thebom (Genevieve) ; Jerome Hines (Arkel) ; Teresa Stratas (Yniold) ; William Walker (Shepherd) ; Clifford Harvuot (Physician) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; Ernest Ansermet, conductor ; Milton Cross, broadcast announcer.

Event (note)

Originally broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Dec. 29, 1962.

Language (note)

Sung in French.

Contents

side 1. Introduction (Milton Cross and Ernest Ansermet) ; Synopses of acts 1 and 2 (Cross) ; Opera news on the air (Edward Downes interviews Ernest Ansermet) ; Synopsis of act 3 (Cross) -- side 2. Texaco's opera quiz (Edward Downes, host, with Walter Ducloux, Terry McEwen and Merle Hubbard) ; Synopses of acts 4 and 5 (Cross) -- side 3. Act 1 ; Act 2, scene 1 -- side 4. Act 2, scenes 2-3 ; Act 3, scenes 1-2 -- side 5. Act 3, scenes 3-4 ; Act 4, scenes 1-3 -- side 6. Act 4, scene 4 ; Act 5 ; Closing remarks (Cross).

Call Number

*LTCM 170 (F)

OCLC

NYPG85-R457

Author

Debussy, Claude, 1862-1918.

Title

Pelléas et Mélisande [sound recording] : opera in five acts / Claude Debussy ; play by Maurice Maeterlinck.

Playing Time

005920 024620

Series

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of \Dec. 29, 1962\621229\]

Cast

Anna Moffo (Mélisande) ; Nicolai Gedda (Pelléas) ; George London (Golaud) ; Blanche Thebom (Genevieve) ; Jerome Hines (Arkel) ; Teresa Stratas (Yniold) ; William Walker (Shepherd) ; Clifford Harvuot (Physician) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; Ernest Ansermet, conductor ; Milton Cross, broadcast announcer.

Indexed In:

Opera news, v. 27, no. 8 (Dec. 29, 1962).

Event

Originally broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Dec. 29, 1962.

Original Version

Re-recorded at NYPL in Aug. 1985, from borrowed masters (4 sound tape reels : 7 1/2 ips, 1 track, mono. ; 10 in.).

Language

Sung in French.

Added Author

Maeterlinck, Maurice, 1862-1949.

Moffo, Anna. Performer

Gedda, Nicolai. Performer

London, George, 1920-1985. Performer

Thebom, Blanche. Performer

Hines, Jerome, 1921- Performer

Stratas, Teresa. Performer

Walker, William, 1931- Performer

Harvuot, Clifford, 1912-1990. Performer

Ansermet, Ernest, 1883-1969. Conductor. Commentator

Cross, Milton, 1897-1975. Commentator

Downes, Edward, 1911- Commentator

Ducloux, Walter. Commentator

McEwen, Terry. Commentator

Hubbard, Merle. Commentator

Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.)

Added Title

Opera news on the air (Radio program)

Texaco's opera quiz (Radio program)

Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (Radio program)

Research Call Number

*LTCM 170 (F) \(Production notes in listening room.)

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