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Tosca opera in three acts

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

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Description

3 sound cassettes (186 min.) : stereo, Dolby-B processed.

Series Statement

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Mar. 30, 1985]

Uniform Title

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

Alternative Title

Tosca

Subject

Operas

Genre/Form

Live sound recordings.

Note

Sung in Italian.
Title from house program ; series title from Opera news.
Durations: 1:00:56 (synopses and features) ; 2:05:36 (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. 30, 1985.

Reproduction (note)

Service copy (3 sound cassettes : analog, mono., Dolby-B processed) available in: *LTCM 472 (F)

Contents

side 1. Introduction and synopsis of act 1 (Peter Allen) ; Opera news on the air (Nimet Habachy) ; Synopsis of act 2 (Allen) -- side 2. Texaco's opera quiz (Edward Downes, host, with Alberta Masiello, M. Owen Lee and John Pfeiffer) ; Synopsis of act 3 (Allen) -- side 3. Act 1 -- side 4. Act 2 -- side 5. Act 3 ; Closing remarks -- side 6. [blank].

Call Number

*LTCM 472 (f)

OCLC

NYPG91-R204

Author

Puccini, Giacomo, 1858-1924.

Title

Tosca [sound recording] : opera in three acts / music by Giacomo Puccini ; libretto Victorien Sardou, Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa.

Playing Time

010056 020536

Series

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Mar. 30, 1985]

Performer

JAmes Courtney (Angelotti) ; Italo Tajo (Sacristan) ; Plácido Domingo (Cavaradossi) ; Hildegard Behrens (Tosca) ; Cornell MacNeil (Scarpia) ; Anthony Laciura (Spoletta) ; Russell Christopher (Sciarrone) ; Melissa Fogarty (Shepherd) ; Richard Vernon (Jailer) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra ; Giuseppe Sinopoli, conductor ; Peter Allen, broadcast announcer.

Indexed In:

Opera news, v. 49, no. 14 (Mar. 30, 1985).

Event

Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Mar. 30, 1985.

Original Version

Re-recorded at NYPL in Mar. 1991, from aluminum-based acetates (3 tape reels : 7 1/2 ips, 2 track, stereo ; 10 in.) lent by the Metropolitan Opera.

Reproduction

Service copy (3 sound cassettes : analog, mono., Dolby-B processed) available in: *LTCM 472 (F)

Added Author

Illica, Luigi, 1857-1919. Librettist

Giacosa, Giuseppe, 1847-1906. Librettist

Sardou, Victorien, 1831-1908. Tosca.

Courtney, James, 1946- performer

Tajo, Italo. Performer

Domingo, Plácido, 1941- Performer

Behrens, Hildegard. Performer

MacNeil, Cornell, 1922- Performer

Laciura, Anthony. Performer

Christopher, Russell. Performer

Fogarty, Melissa. Performer

Vernon, Richard, 1950- Performer

Sinopoli, Giuseppe. Conductor

Allen, Peter, 1920-2016. Commentator

Habachy, Nimet. Commentator

Downes, Edward, 1911- Commentator

Lee, M. Owen, 1930-2019. Commentator

Masiello, Alberta. Commentator

Pfeiffer, John, 1920- 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 472 (f) \(Production notes in listening room.)

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