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Rigoletto

Title: Rigoletto [sound recording] / Giuseppe Verdi ; libretto by Francesco Maria Piave.
Author: Verdi, Giuseppe, 1813-1901.
Publication: [New York, NY] : Metropolitan Opera, c2002.

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Description

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

Donor/Sponsor

Gift of Metropolitan Opera.

Series Statement

ChevronTexaco-Metropolitan Opera International Radio Network ; [broadcast of] Mar. 9, 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)

Ruth Ann Swenson (Gilda) ; Denyce Graves (Maddalena) ; Marcelo Alvarez (Duke) ; Juan Pons (Rigoletto) ; Robert Lloyd (Sparafucile) ; Michael Forest (Borsa) ; Reveka Mavrovitis (Countess Ceprano) ; Rodion Pogossov (Marullo) ; Alfred Walker (Count Ceprano) ; James Courtney (Monterone) ; Diane Elias (Giovanna) ; Alexandra Newland (Page) ; Joseph Pariso (Chief guard) ; Marco Guidarini, conductor ; Metropolitan Opera Chorus and Orchestra ; Peter Allen, broadcast announcer.

Event (note)

Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Mar. 9, 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. Acts 2 & 3 ; Closing remarks (Allen) -- CD 3. Opera news on the air (Bridget Paolucci discusses "Rigoletto: A character worthy of Shakespeare") ; Robert Marx previews "Parade" ; Synopsis of Act 2 (Allen) ; Texaco's Opera Quiz (Steven Blier, host, with Jason Ferrante, George Jellinek and Susan Webb) ; Synopsis of Act 3 (Allen).

Call Number

*LDC 27391

OCLC

NYPG02-R134

Author

Verdi, Giuseppe, 1813-1901.

Title

Rigoletto [sound recording] / Giuseppe Verdi ; libretto by Francesco Maria Piave.

Imprint

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

Series

ChevronTexaco-Metropolitan Opera International Radio Network ; [broadcast of] Mar. 9, 2002.

Cast

Ruth Ann Swenson (Gilda) ; Denyce Graves (Maddalena) ; Marcelo Alvarez (Duke) ; Juan Pons (Rigoletto) ; Robert Lloyd (Sparafucile) ; Michael Forest (Borsa) ; Reveka Mavrovitis (Countess Ceprano) ; Rodion Pogossov (Marullo) ; Alfred Walker (Count Ceprano) ; James Courtney (Monterone) ; Diane Elias (Giovanna) ; Alexandra Newland (Page) ; Joseph Pariso (Chief guard) ; Marco Guidarini, conductor ; Metropolitan Opera Chorus and Orchestra ; Peter Allen, broadcast announcer.

Event

Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Mar. 9, 2002.

Language

Sung in Italian.

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Added Author

Allen, Peter, 1920-2016. Commentator

Piave, Francesco Maria, 1810-1876. Librettist

Guidarini, Marco. Conductor

Swenson, Ruth Ann. Performer

Graves, Denyce. Performer

Alvarez, Marcelo (Tenor) Performer

Pons, Juan. Performer

Lloyd, Robert, 1940- Performer

Forest, Michael. Performer

Mavrovitis, Reveka. Performer

Pogosov, Rodion. Performer

Walker, Alfred (Bass) Performer

Marx, Robert. Commentator

Courtney, James, 1946- performer

Elias, Diane. Performer

Newland, Alexandra. Performer

Pariso, Joseph. Performer

Paolucci, Bridget. Performer

Blier, Steven. Performer

Webb, Susan (Susan S.) Commentator

Ferrante, Jason. Commentator

Jellinek, George, 1919- 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 27391

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