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Tosca opera in three acts

Title: Tosca [sound recording] : opera in three acts / Giacomo Puccini ; libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa, founded on La Tosca, play by Victorien Sardou.
Author: Puccini, Giacomo, 1858-1924.

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Description

3 sound cassettes (179 min.) : analog, mono., Dolby-B processed.

Series Statement

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Apr. 7, 1962.

Uniform Title

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

Subject

Operas

Note

Sung in Italian.
Titles from Opera news.
Durations: 0:57:30 (synopses and features) ; 2:01:45 (opera).
With production notes and official cast list (6 p.).

Indexed In (note)

Opera news

Event (note)

Originally recorded in the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Apr. 7, 1962.

Contents

side 1. Introduction and synopsis of act 1 (Milton Cross) ; Opera news on the air: George Schick and singers Mary Ellen Pracht, Teresa Stratas, Carlotta Ordassy, Lili Chookasian, Robert Nagy, Calvin Marsh, Morley Meredith, Louis Sgarro and Gerhard Pechner illustrate voice categories ; Synopsis of act 2 (Cross) -- side 2. Texaco's opera quiz: Edward Downes, Mary Ellis Peltz, George Marek, Walter Ducloux and Walter Slezak ; Synopsis of act 3 (Cross) -- side 3. Act 1 -- side 4. Act 2 -- side 5. Act 3 ; Closing remarks (Cross).

Call Number

*LTCM 163 (F)

OCLC

NYPG85-R407

Author

Puccini, Giacomo, 1858-1924.

Title

Tosca [sound recording] : opera in three acts / Giacomo Puccini ; libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa, founded on La Tosca, play by Victorien Sardou.

Playing Time

005730 020145

Series

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Apr. 7, 1962.

Performer

Leontyne Price (Tosca) ; Franco Corelli (Cavaradossi) ; Cornell MacNeil (Scarpia) ; Ezio Flagello (Sacristan) ; Norman Scott (Angelotti) ; Paul Franke (Spoletta) ; George Cehanovsky (Sciarrone) ; Alan Fischer (Shepherd boy) ; Roald Reitan (Jailer) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; Kurt Adler, conductor ; Milton Cross, broadcast announcer.

Indexed In:

Opera news, v. 26, no. 21 (Apr. 7, 1962).

Event

Originally recorded in the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Apr. 7, 1962.

Original Version

Re-recorded at NYPL in July 1985, from borrowed masters (3 sound tape reels : 7 1/2 ips, 1 track, mono. ; 10 in.).

Added Author

Illica, Luigi, 1857-1919. Librettist

Giacosa, Giuseppe, 1847-1906. Librettist

Sardou, Victorien, 1831-1908. Tosca.

Price, Leontyne. Performer

Corelli, Franco. Performer

MacNeil, Cornell, 1922- Performer

Flagello, Ezio. Performer

Scott, Norman, 1921-1968. Performer

Franke, Paul, 1917-2011. Performer

Cehanovsky, George, 1892-1986. Performer

Fischer, Alan (Singer) Performer

Reitan, Roald. Performer

Adler, Kurt, 1907-1977. Conductor

Cross, Milton, 1897-1975. Commentator

Schick, George. Commentator

Pracht, Mary Ellen. Commentator

Stratas, Teresa. Commentator

Ordassy, Carlotta. Commentator

Chookasian, Lili. Commentator

Nagy, Robert, 1929- Commentator

Marsh, Calvin. Commentator

Morley, Meredith. Commentator

Sgarro, Louis, 1920-1985. Commentator

Pechner, Gerhard. Commentator

Downes, Edward, 1911- Commentator

Peltz, Mary Ellis (Odyke). Commentator

Marek, George Richard. Commentator

Ducloux, Walter, 1913- Commentator

Slezak, Walter, 1902- Commentator

Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.)

Added Title

Texaco's opera quiz (Radio program)

Opera news on the air (Radio program)

Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (Radio program)

Research Call Number

*LTCM 163 (F) (Production notes in litening room.)

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