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Macbeth opera in four acts

Title: Macbeth [sound recording] : opera in four acts / Giuseppe Verdi ; libretto by Francesco Piave and Andrea Maffei, founded on Macbeth, play by William Shakespeare.
Author: Verdi, Giuseppe, 1813-1901.

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Description

3 sound cassettes (225 min.) : analog, mono., Dolby-B processed.

Series Statement

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Mar. 24, 1962]

Uniform Title

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

Subject

Operas

Note

Sung in Italian.
Titles from Opera news.
Durations: 1:17:00 (synopses and features) ; 2:27:55 (opera).
With production notes and official cast list (6 p.) on file in Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound.

Indexed In (note)

Opera news

Event (note)

Originally recorded in the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Mar. 24, 1962.

Contents

side 1. Introduction and synopsis and comments at the end of act 1 (Milton Cross) ; Opera news on the air: Edward Downes and Old Vic artistic director Michael Benthall discuss Macbeth ; Synopsis of act 2 (Cross) -- side 2. Texaco's opera quiz: Edward Downes, Mary Ellis Peltz, Merle Hubbard, Max de Schauensee and Walter Slezak ; Synopses of acts 3 and 4 (Cross) -- side 3. Act 1 -- side 4. Act 2 -- side 5. Act 3 -- side 6. Act 4 ; Howard Hook, Jr. introduces Metropolitan Opera Audition winner Janis Martin ; Closing remarks (Cross).

Call Number

*LTCM 161 (F)

OCLC

NYPG85-R405

Author

Verdi, Giuseppe, 1813-1901.

Title

Macbeth [sound recording] : opera in four acts / Giuseppe Verdi ; libretto by Francesco Piave and Andrea Maffei, founded on Macbeth, play by William Shakespeare.

Series

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Mar. 24, 1962]

Performer

Anselmo Colzani (Macbeth) ; Leonie Rysanek (Lady Macbeth) ; Giorgio Tozzi (Banquo) ; Carlo Bergonzi (Macduff) ; William Olvis (Malcolm) ; Calvin Marsh (Muderer) ; Roald Reitan (Warrior apparition) ; Lynn Blair (Bloody Child apparition) ; Mildred Allen (Crowned Child apparition) ; Carlotta Ordassy (Lady in Attendance) ; Carlo Tomanelli (Manservant) ; Gerhard Pechner (Physician) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; Joseph Rosenstock, conductor ; Milton Cross, broadcast announcer.

Indexed In:

Opera news, v. 26, no. 19 (Mar. 24, 1962).

Event

Originally recorded in the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Mar. 24, 1962.

Original Version

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

Added Author

Piave, Francesco Maria, 1810-1876. Librettist

Maffei, Andrea, 1798-1885. Librettist

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Macbeth.

Colzani, Anselmo. Performer

Rysanek, Leonie. Performer

Tozzi, Giorgio. Performer

Bergonzi, Carlo. Performer

Olvis, William. Performer

Marsh, Calvin. Performer

Reitan, Roald. Performer

Blair, Lynn. Performer

Allen, Mildred. Performer

Ordassy, Carlotta. Performer

Tomanelli, Carlo. Performer

Pechner, Gerhard. Performer

Rosenstock, Joseph, 1895-1985. Conductor

Cross, Milton, 1897-1975. Commentator

Downes, Edward, 1911- Commentator

Benthall, Michael. Commentator

Peltz, Mary Ellis, 1896-1981. Commentator

Hubbard, Merle. Commentator

De Schauensee, Max. Commentator

Slezak, Walter, 1902- Commentator

Hook, Howard J., Jr. Commentator

Martin, Janis. 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 161 (F) Production notes on file.

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