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Manon Lescaut lyric drama in four acts

Title: Manon Lescaut [sound recording] : lyric drama in four acts / music by Giacomo Puccini ; libretto by Marco Praga, Domenico Oliva, Luigi Illica, Giuseppe Giacosa and Giulio Ricordi, based on the novel by Abbé Prévost.
Author: Puccini, Giacomo, 1858-1924.

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Description

3 sound cassettes (196 min.) : stereo, Dolby-B processed.

Series Statement

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Mar. 2, 1985]

Uniform Title

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

Alternative Title

Manon Lescaut

Subject

Operas

Genre/Form

Live sound recordings.

Note

Sung in Italian.
Title from house program ; series title from Opera news.
Durations: 1:11:06 (synopses and features) ; 2:04:51 (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, Mar. 2, 1985.

Reproduction (note)

Service copy (3 sound cassettes : stereo, Dolby-B processed) available in: *LTCM 468 (F)

Contents

side 1. Introduction and synopsis of act 1 (Peter Allen ; Opera news on the air (Nimet Habachy) ; Synopsis of act 2 (Allen) ; Texaco's opera quiz (Edward Downes, host, with Alfred Hubay, Terrence McNally and Martin Bernheimer) -- side 2. Synopsis of act 3 ; Third intermission feature (William Edgerton) ; Synopsis of act 4 (Allen) -- side 3. Prelude ; Act 1 -- side 4. Act 2 -- side 5. Intermezzo ; Act 3 -- side 6. Act 4 ; Closing remarks (Allen).

Call Number

*LTCM 468 (f)

OCLC

NYPG91-R201

Author

Puccini, Giacomo, 1858-1924.

Title

Manon Lescaut [sound recording] : lyric drama in four acts / music by Giacomo Puccini ; libretto by Marco Praga, Domenico Oliva, Luigi Illica, Giuseppe Giacosa and Giulio Ricordi, based on the novel by Abbé Prévost.

Playing Time

011106 020451

Series

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Mar. 2, 1985]

Performer

Kirk Redmann (Edmondo) ; Vasile Moldoveanu (Des Grieux) ; Lenus Carlson (Lescaut) ; Spiro Malas (An innkeeper) ; Ara Berberian (Geronte) ; Adriana Maliponte (Manon Lescaut) ; Diane Kesling (A musician) ; Constance Green, Judith Goldberg, Barbara Bystrom and Carole Wright (Madrigal singer's) ; Andrea Velis (Dancing Master) ; John Darrenkamp (A sergeant) ; Charles Anthony (A lamplighter) ; Russell Christopher (A sea captain) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; Nello Santi, conductor ; Peter Allen, broadcast announcer.

Indexed In:

Opera news, v. 49, no. 12 (Mar. 2, 1985).

Event

Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Mar. 2, 1985.

Original Version

Re-recorded at NYPL in Mar. 1991, from borrowed masters (4 sound tape reels : 7 1/2 ips, 2 track, stereo ; 10 in.) lent by the Metropolitan Opera.

Reproduction

Service copy (3 sound cassettes : stereo, Dolby-B processed) available in: *LTCM 468 (F)

Added Author

Praga, Marco, 1862-1929. Librettist

Oliva, Domenico, 1860-1917. Librettist

Illica, Luigi, 1857-1919. Librettist

Giacosa, Giuseppe, 1847-1906. Librettist

Ricordi, Giulio, 1840-1912. Librettist

Prévost, abbé, 1697-1763. Manon Lescaut.

Redmann, Kirk. Performer

Moldoveanu, Vasile. Performer

Carlson, Lenus. Performer

Malas, Spiro. Performer

Berberian, Ara. Performer

Maliponte, Adriana. Performer

Kesling, Diane. Performer

Green, Constance. Performer

Goldberg, Judith. Performer

Bystrom, Barbara. Performer

Wright, Carole. Performer

Velis, Andrea, 1932-1994. Performer

Darrenkamp, John. Performer

Anthony, Charles, 1929-2012. Performer

Christopher, Russell. Performer

Santi, Nello. Conductor

Allen, Peter, 1920-2016. Commentator

Habachy, Nimet. Commentator

Downes, Edward, 1911- Commentator

Hubay, Alfred. Commentator

Bernheimer, Martin. Commentator

McNally, Terrence. Commentator

Edgerton, William. 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 468 (f) \(Production notes in listening room.)

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