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Rigoletto opera in four acts...

Title: Rigoletto [sound recording] : opera in four acts... / Giuseppe Verdi ; libretto by Francesco Maria Piave, after Victor Hugo's play Le roi s'amuse.
Author: Verdi, Giuseppe, 1813-1901.

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Description

3 sound cassettes (193 min.) : analog, mono., Dolby-B processed.

Series Statement

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of \Feb. 22, 1964\640222\]

Uniform Title

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

Alternative Title

Rigoletto

Subject

Operas

Note

Sung in Italian.
Titles from Opera news.
Durations: 1:13:55 (synopses and features) ; 1:59:05 (opera).
With production notes and official cast list (6 p.).

Indexed In (note)

Opera news

Event (note)

Originally broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Feb. 22, 1964.

Contents

side 1. Introduction and synopsis of act 1 (Milton Cross) ; Opera news on the air: Prompters' roundtable discussion with Edward Downes and Prompters Julius Burger, Victor Trucco and William Weibel ; Synopsis of act 2 (Cross) ; Texaco's opera quiz: Downes, Burger, Trucco and Weibel -- side 2. Synopsis of act 3 (Cross) ; Third intermission: William Weaver discusses Verdi's Casa di Riposo ; Synopsis of act 4 (Cross) -- side 3. Act 1 -- side 4. Act 2 -- side 5. Act 3. -- side 6. Act 4 ; Closing remarks (Cross).

Call Number

*LTCM 197 (F)

OCLC

NYPG86-R11

Author

Verdi, Giuseppe, 1813-1901.

Title

Rigoletto [sound recording] : opera in four acts... / Giuseppe Verdi ; libretto by Francesco Maria Piave, after Victor Hugo's play Le roi s'amuse.

Playing Time

011355 015905

Series

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of \Feb. 22, 1964\640222\]

Performer

Robert Merrill (Rigoletto) ; Roberta Peters (Gilda) ; Richard Tucker (Duke) ; Bonaldo Giaiotti (Sparafucile) ; Mignon Dunn (Maddalena) ; Robert Patterson (Count Ceprano) ; Joy Clements (Countess Ceprano) ; Arthur Graham (Borsa) ; Calvin Marsh (Marullo) ; John Macurdy (Monterone) ; Carlotta Ordassy (Giovanna) ; Junetta Jones (Page) ; Peter Sliker (Chief Guard) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; Fausto Cleva, conductor ; Milton Cross, broadcast announcer.

Indexed In:

Opera news, v. 28, no. 15 (Feb. 22, 1964).

Event

Originally broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Feb. 22, 1964.

Original Version

Re-recorded at NYPL in Nov. 1985, from borrowed masters (4 sound tape reels : 7 1/2 ips, 1 track, mono. ; 10 in.).

Added Author

Piave, Francesco Maria, 1810-1876. Librettist

Hugo, Victor, 1802-1885. Roi s'amuse.

Merrill, Robert, 1917-2004 Performer

Peters, Roberta, 1930-2017. Performer

Tucker, Richard, 1913-1975. Performer

Giaiotti, Bonaldo. Performer

Dunn, Mignon. Performer

Patterson, Robert. Performer

Clements, Joy. Performer

Graham, Arthur. Performer

Marsh, Calvin. Performer

Macurdy, John. Performer

Ordassy, Carlotta. Performer

Jones, Junetta. Performer

Sliker, Peter. Performer

Cleva, Faust. Conductor

Cross, Milton, 1897-1975. Commentator

Downes, Edward, 1911- Commentator

Burger, Julius. Commentator

Trucco, Victor. Commentator

Weibel, William. Commentator

Weaver, William, 1923-2013, 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

*LTCM 197 (F) \(Production notes in listening room.)

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