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Madama butterfly opera in three acts

Title: Madama butterfly [sound recording] : opera in three acts / music by Giacomo Puccini ; libretto by Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica.
Author: Puccini, Giacomo, 1858-1924.

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Description

4 sound tape reels (178 min.) : analog, 7 1/2 ips, 2 track, mono.; 10 in.

Series Statement

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Feb. 2, 1952]

Uniform Title

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

Alternative Title

Madama Butterfly.

Subject

Operas

Genre/Form

Live sound recordings.

Note

Sung in Italian.
Title from house program ; series title from Opera news.
Durations: 0:42:58 (synopses and features) ; 2:15:40 (opera).
Production notes and official cast list (4 p.) on file in the Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound.

Indexed In (note)

Opera news

Event (note)

Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Feb. 2, 1952.

Reproduction (note)

Service copy (3 sound cassettes : analog, mono., Dolby-B processed) available in: *LTCM 358 (F)

Contents

side 1. Introduction and synopsis of act 1 (Milton Cross) ; Opera news on the air (Boris Goldovsky, host, with Quaintance Eaton and Charles Kullman) ; Synopsis of act 2 (Cross) ; Texaco's opera quiz (Robert Lawrence, host, with Mary Ellis Peltz, Robert Bagar and H.W. Heimsheimer) ; Synopsis of act 3 (Cross) -- side 2. [blank] -- side 3. Act 1 through "Ieri son salita tutta sola" -- side 4. Act 1 concluded -- side 5. Act 2 through postlude -- side 6. Act 2 concluded ; Act 3 ; Broadcast concluded.

Call Number

*LT-10 4907

OCLC

NYPG89-R211

Author

Puccini, Giacomo, 1858-1924.

Title

Madama butterfly [sound recording] : opera in three acts / music by Giacomo Puccini ; libretto by Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica.

Playing Time

04258 21540̲

Series

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Feb. 2, 1952]

Performer

Dorothy Kirsten (Cio-Cio-San) ; Giacinto Prandelli (B.F. Pinkerton) ; Frank Valentino (Consul Sharpless) ; Mildred Miller (Suzuki) ; Anne Bollinger (Kate Pinkerton) ; Alessio De Paolis (Goro) ; George Cehanovsky (Yamadori) ; Osie Hawkins (The uncle-priest) ; Algerd Brazis (The imperial commissary) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; Fausto Cleva, conductor ; Milton Cross, broadcast announcer.

Indexed In:

Opera news, v. 16, no. 13 (Jan. 28, 1952).

Event

Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Feb. 2, 1952.

Original Version

Preservation tape, recorded at NYPL in May. 1989, from aluminum-based acetates (6 sound discs : analog, 33 1/3 rpm, mono. ; 16 in.) lent by the Metropolitan Opera.

Reproduction

Service copy (3 sound cassettes : analog, mono., Dolby-B processed) available in: *LTCM 358 (F)

Added Author

Giacosa, Giuseppe, 1847-1906. Librettist

Illica, Luigi, 1857-1919. Librettist

Kirsten, Dorothy, 1910-1992. Performer

Prandelli, Giacinto, 1916- Performer

Valentino, Frank. Performer

Miller, Mildred. Performer

Bollinger, Anne. Performer

De Paolis, Alessio. Performer

Cehanovsky, George, 1892-1986. Performer

Hawkins, Osie. Performer

Brazis, Algerd. Performer

Cleva, Fausto. Conductor

Cross, Milton, 1897-1975. Commentator

Goldovsky, Boris. Commentator

Eaton, Quaintance. Commentator

Kullman, Charles, 1903-1983. Commentator

Lawrence, Robert, 1912- Commentator

Peltz, Mary Ellis, 1896-1981. Commentator

Bagar, Robert. Commentator

Heinsheimer, H.W. 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

*LT-10 4907 Master tape. Request cassette service copy in *LTCM 358 (F).

*LTCM 358 (F) Cassette service copy; production notes on file. Master tape in *LT-10 4907.

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