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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 (184 min.) : analog, 7 1/2 ips, 2 track, mono. ;-c10 in.

Series Statement

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Jan. 17, 1953]

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: 0:49:42 (synopses and features) ; 2:14:46 (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, Jan. 17, 1953.

Reproduction (note)

Service copy (3 sound cassettes : analog, mono., Dolby-B processed) available in: *LTCM 336 (F)

Contents

side 1. Introduction and synopsis of act 1 (Milton Cross) ; Opera news on the air (Bing Crosby, host, with Martin Snyder, Annabelle Newell, Gerald Fitzgerald and Josef Conrad) ; Synopsis of act 2 (Cross) ; Texaco's opera quiz (Robert Lawrence, host, with George Marek, Walter Ducloux and Sigmund Spaeth) -- side 2. Synopsis of act 3 and Closing remarks (Cross) -- side 3. Act 1 through "Ieri son salita tutta sola" -- side 4. Act 1 concluded -- side 5. Act 2 through "Spoglio è L'orto" -- side 6. Act 2 concluded ; Act 3.

Call Number

*LT-10 4886

OCLC

NYPG89-R58

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

04942 21446

Series

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Jan. 17, 1953]

Performer

Licia Albanese (Cio-Cio-San) ; Eugene Conley (B.F. Pinkerton) ; Frank Valentino (Consul Sharpless) ; Margaret Roggero (Suzuki) ; Laura Castellano (Kate Pinkerton) ; Alessio De Paolis (Goro) ; George Cehanovsky (Yamadori) ; Osie Hawkins (Uncle-Priest) ; Algerd Bazis (Imperial Commissary) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; Fausto Cleva, conductor ; Milton Cross, broadcast announcer.

Indexed In:

Opera news, v. 17, no. 11 (Jan. 12, 1953).

Event

Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Jan. 17, 1953.

Original Version

Preservation tapes recorded at NYPL in Mar. 1989, from aluminum-based acetates (7 sound discs : analog, 3 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 336 (F)

Added Author

Giacosa, Giuseppe, 1847-1906. Librettist

Illica, Luigi, 1857-1919. Librettist

Albanese, Licia. Performer

Conley, Eugene, 1908-1981. Performer

Valentino, Frank. Performer

Roggero, Margaret. Performer

Castellano, Laura. Performer

De Paolis, Alessio. Performer

Cehanovsky, George, 1892-1986. Performer

Hawkins, Osie. Performer

Brazis, Algerd. Performer

Cleva, Fausto. Conductor

Cross, Milton, 1897-1975. Commentator

Crosby, Bing, 1903-1977, commentator.

Synder, Martin. Commentator

Newell, Annabelle. Commentator

Fitzgerald, Gerald. Commentator

Conrad, Josef. Commentator

Lawrence, Robert, 1912- Commentator

Marek, George R. (George Richard), 1902-1987. Commentator

Ducloux, Walter. cmm̀

Spaeth, Sigmund, 1885-1965. 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 4886 Master tape. Request cassette service copy in *LTCM 336 (F).

*LTCM 336 (F) Cassette service copy; production notes on file. Master tape in *LT-10 4886.

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