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Tosca

Title: Tosca [sound recording] / Giacomo Puccini ; libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa, after Victorien Sardou's play.
Author: Puccini, Giacomo, 1858-1924.
Publication: [New York, NY] : Metropolitan Opera, c2002.

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Description

4 sound discs : digital, stereo.; 4 3/4 in.

Donor/Sponsor

Gift of Metropolitan Opera.

Series Statement

ChevronTexaco-Metropolitan Opera International Radio Network ; [broadcast of] Jan. 19, 2002.

Uniform Title

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

Subject

Operas

Genre/Form

Live sound recordings.

Note

Compact discs.

Performer (note)

Catherine Malfitano (Tosca) ; Franco Farina (Cavaradossi) ; James Morris (Scarpia) ; Bruno Pola (Sacristan) ; Richard Bernstein (Angelotti) ; Anthony Laciura (Spoletta) ; Richard Vernon (Sciarrone) ; George Cook (Shepherd) ; Vaclovas Daunoras (Jailer) ; Daniel Oren, conductor ; Metropoltan Opera Chorus and Orchestra ; Peter Allen, broadcast announcer.

Event (note)

Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Jan. 19, 2002.

Source (note)

Metropolitan Opera;

Language (note)

Sung in Italian.

Contents

CD 1. Introduction and synopsis of Act 1 (Peter Allen) ; Act 1 -- CD 2. Act 2 -- CD 3. Act 3 ; Closing remarks (Allen) -- CD 4. Opera News on the Air (Guilty Pleasures Roundtable with Robert Marx, Ken Benson and Fred Plotkin) ; Synopsis of Act 2 (Allen) ; Texaco's Opera Quiz (Thor Eckert, Jr, host, with Linda Fairtile, Rex Levang and Christopher Purdy) ; Synopsis of Act 3 (Allen).

Call Number

*LDC 27385

OCLC

NYPG02-R130

Author

Puccini, Giacomo, 1858-1924.

Title

Tosca [sound recording] / Giacomo Puccini ; libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa, after Victorien Sardou's play.

Imprint

[New York, NY] : Metropolitan Opera, c2002.

Series

ChevronTexaco-Metropolitan Opera International Radio Network ; [broadcast of] Jan. 19, 2002.

Cast

Catherine Malfitano (Tosca) ; Franco Farina (Cavaradossi) ; James Morris (Scarpia) ; Bruno Pola (Sacristan) ; Richard Bernstein (Angelotti) ; Anthony Laciura (Spoletta) ; Richard Vernon (Sciarrone) ; George Cook (Shepherd) ; Vaclovas Daunoras (Jailer) ; Daniel Oren, conductor ; Metropoltan Opera Chorus and Orchestra ; Peter Allen, broadcast announcer.

Event

Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Jan. 19, 2002.

Language

Sung in Italian.

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Added Author

Allen, Peter, 1920-2016. Commentator

Illica, Luigi, 1857-1919. Librettist

Giacosa, Giuseppe, 1847-1906. Librettist

Sardou, Victorien, 1831-1908. Tosca.

Oren, Daniel. Conductor

Malfitano, Catherine. Performer

Farina, Franco (Tenor) Performer

Morris, James, 1947- Performer

Pola, Bruno. Performer

Bernstein, Richard (Bass-baritone) Performer

Laciura, Anthony. Performer

Vernon, Richard, 1950- Performer

Cook, George (Singer) Performer

Daunoras, Vaclovas. Performer

Benson, Ken (Ken G.) Commentator

Marx, Robert. Commentator

Plotkin, Fred. Commentator

Eckert, Thor, Jr. Commentator

Fairtile, Linda Beard. Commentator

Levang, Rex. Commentator

Purdy, Christopher. Commentator

Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.)

Added Title

Texaco's opera quiz (Radio program)

Opera news on the air (Radio program)

Added Title

Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (Radio program)

Research Call Number

*LDC 27385

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