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Le nozze di Figaro opera in four acts

Title: Le nozze di Figaro [sound recording] : opera in four acts / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ; libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte, based on Beaumarchais' play.
Author: Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791.

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Description

3 sound cassettes (213 min.) : analog, mono., Dolby-B processed.

Series Statement

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Jan. 2, 1965]

Uniform Title

Nozze di Figaro
Opera news on the air (Radio program)
Texaco's opera quiz (Radio program).
Biographies in music (Radio program).
Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (Radio program)

Alternative Title

Nozze di Figaro

Subjects

Note

Sung in Italian.
Title from house program ; series title from Opera news.
Durations: 1:03:40 (synopses and features) ; 2:47:25 (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, Jan. 2, 1965.

Contents

side 1. Introduction and synopsis of act 1 (Milton Cross) ; Opera news on the air: Rebroadcast of Dec. 26, 1961 with Clifton Fadiman, Dorothee Manski, Deems Taylor, Milton Cross and Charles Gray ; Synopsis of act 2 (Cross) ; Texaco's opera quiz: Edward Downes, Walter Ducloux, Boris Goldovsky, Jay Harrison and Terry McEwen ; Synopsis of act 2 (Cross) -- side 2. Biographies in music: Francis Robinson discusses Beniamino Gigli ; 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 210 (f)

OCLC

NYPG86-R135

Author

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791.

Title

Le nozze di Figaro [sound recording] : opera in four acts / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ; libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte, based on Beaumarchais' play.

Playing Time

010340 024725

Series

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Jan. 2, 1965]

Performer

Giorgio Tozzi (Figaro) ; Judith Raskin (Susanna) ; Lisa Della Casa (Countess Almaviva) ; Hermann Prey (Count Almaviva) ; Teresa Stratas (Cherubino) ; Gladys Kriese (Marcellina) ; Elfego Esparza (Dr. Bartolo) ; Mariano Caruso (Don Basilio) ; Gabor Carelli (Don Curzio) ; Lorenzo Alvary (Antonio) ; Lynn Blair (Barbarina) ; Loretta Di Franco, Dorothy Shawn (peasant girls) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; Joseph Rosenstock, conductor ; Milton Cross, broadcast announcer.

Indexed In:

Opera news, v. 29, no. 8 (Jan. 2, 1965).

Event

Originally broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Jan. 2, 1965.

Original Version

Re-recorded at NYPL in Mar. 1986, from borrowed masters (4 sound tape reels : 7 1/2 ips, 1 track, mono. ; 10 in.).

Added Author

Da Ponte, Lorenzo, 1749-1838. Librettist

Tozzi, Giorgio. Performer

Raskin, Judith. Performer

Della Casa, Lisa. Performer

Prey, Hermann, 1929-1998. Performer

Stratas, Teresa. Performer

Kriese, Gladys. Performer

Esparza, Elfego. Performer

Caruso, Mariano. Performer

Carelli, Gabor. Performer

Alvary, Lorenzo, 1909- Performer

Blair, Lynn. Performer

Di Franco, Loretta. Performer

Shawn, Dorothy. Performer

Rosenstock, Joseph, 1895-1985. Conductor

Cross, Milton, 1897-1975. Commentator

Fadiman, Clifton, 1904-1999. Commentator

Manski, Dorothee. Commentator

Taylor, Deems, 1885-1966. Commentator

Gray, Charles (Singer) Commentator

Downes, Edward, 1911- Commentator

Ducloux, Walter, 1913- Commentator

Goldovsky, Boris. Commentator

Harrison, Jay. Commentator

McEwen, Terry. Commentator

Robinson, Francis, 1910- Commentator

Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.)

Added Title

Opera news on the air (Radio program)

Texaco's opera quiz (Radio program).

Biographies in music (Radio program).

Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (Radio program)

Research Call Number

*LTCM 210 (f) Production notes filed in listening room)

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