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The ghosts of Versailles a grand opera buffa in two acts

Title: The ghosts of Versailles [sound recording] : a grand opera buffa in two acts / music by John Corigliano ; libretto by William M. Hoffman, suggested by "La mère coupable" of Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais.
Author: Corigliano, John, 1938-
Publication: [New York, N.Y.] : Metropolitan Opera, c1995.

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Description

4 sound discs : digital, stereo.; 4 3/4 in.

Donor/Sponsor

Gift of the Metropolitan Opera.

Series Statement

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera International Radio Network ; [broadcast of Apr. 15, 1995]

Uniform Title

Texaco's opera quiz (Radio program)
Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (Radio program)

Subject

Operas

Genre/Form

Live sound recordings.

Note

Compact discs.
House program on file in Music Division.

Indexed In (note)

Opera news

Event (note)

Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Apr. 15, 1995.

Source (note)

Metropolitan Opera;

Language (note)

Sung in English.

Contents

CD 1. Introduction and synopsis of Act I (Peter Allen) ; Act I, part 1 -- CD 2. Act I, part 2 -- CD 3. Act II, part 1 -- CD 4. Act II, part 2 ; Closing remarks (Allen) ; John Corigliano reflects on Ghosts of Versailles ; Texaco's opera quiz (William Livingstone, host, with Cori Ellison, Alfred Hubay and William Weaver) ; Synopsis of act II (Allen).

Call Number

*LDC 32519

OCLC

NYPG04-R89

Author

Corigliano, John, 1938-

Title

The ghosts of Versailles [sound recording] : a grand opera buffa in two acts / music by John Corigliano ; libretto by William M. Hoffman, suggested by "La mère coupable" of Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais.

Imprint

[New York, N.Y.] : Metropolitan Opera, c1995.

Series

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera International Radio Network ; [broadcast of Apr. 15, 1995]

Performer

Teresa Stratas (Marie Antoinette) ; Marilyn Horne (Samira) ; Allan Glassman (Bégearss) ; Gino Quilico (Figaro) ; Hector Vasquez (Beaumarchais) ; Jane Shaulis (Woman in hat) ; James Courtney (Louis XVI) ; Ronald Naldi (The Marquis) ; Elizabeth Bishop, Yvonne Gonzales, Wendy Hoffman (The gossips) ; Theresa Cincione (Lucienne) ; Margaret Lattimore (Diane) ; Michael Best (The Bishop) ; Richard Vernon (Joseph) ; Judith Christin (Susanna) ; Kurt Streit (Count Almaviva) ; Hei-Kyung Hong (Rosina) ; Tracy Dahl (Florestine) ; Paul Groves (Léon) ; Bradley Garvin (Wilhelm) ; Wendy White (Cherubino) ; Ara Berberian (Suleyman Pasha) ; Dean Badolato (His page) ; Peter Van Derick (The English Ambassador) ; Midhat Serbagi (An Egyptian violist) ; Steven Combs, John Darrenkamp, Nathan Gunn (Three Muscovite traders) ; Eduardo Valdes (A man with a ladder) ; Howard Bender (A man with lather on his face) ; LeRoy Lehr (The other man) ; Christine Goerke, Carol Meyer (Two women with babies) ; Loretta Di Franco, Janet Hopkins, Kathryn Krasovec, Emily Pulley (Four other women with babies) ; Michelle De Young, Kristine Jepson (Ladies of town) ; Michael Forest, Tony Stevenson (Two bailifs) ; Kemal Kahn (Harpsichord) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; James Levine, conductor ; Peter Allen, broadcast announcer.

Indexed In:

Opera news, v. 59, no. 15 (Apr. 15, 1995).

Event

Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Apr. 15, 1995.

Language

Sung in English.

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Added Author

Hoffman, William M. (William Moses), 1939-2017, librettist.

Beaumarchais, Pierre Augustin Caron de, 1732-1799. Mère coupable.

Stratas, Teresa. Performer

Horne, Marilyn. Performer

Glassman, Allan. Performer

Quilico, Gino. Performer

Vásquez, Hector (Baritone) Performer

Shaulis, Jane. Performer

Courtney, James, 1946- performer

Naldi, Ronald. Performer

Bishop, Elizabeth (Mezzo-soprano) Performer

Gonzales, Yvonne. Performer

Hoffman, Wendy (Mezzo-soprano) Performer

Cincione, Theresa. Performer

Lattimore, Margaret. Performer

Best, Michael. Performer

Vernon, Richard, 1950- Performer

Christin, Judith. Performer

Streit, Kurt. Performer

Hong, Hei-Kyung. Performer

Dahl, Tracy. Performer

Groves, Paul (Tenor) Performer

Garvin, Bradley. Performer

White, Wendy. Performer

Berberian, Ara. Performer

Badolato, Dean. Performer

Van Derick, Peter. Performer

Serbagi, Midhat. Performer

Combs, Steven. Performer

Darrenkamp, John. Performer

Gunn, Nathan. Performer

Valdes, Eduardo (Tenor) Performer

Bender, Howard (Baritone) Performer

Lehr, LeRoy. Performer

Goerke, Christine. Performer

Meyer, Carol (Soprano)

Di Franco, Loretta. Performer

Hopkins, Janet (Singer) Performer

Krasovec, Kathryn. Performer

Pulley, Emily Ann. Performer

DeYoung, Michelle. Performer

Jepson, Kristine. Performer

Forest, Michael. Performer

Stevenson, Tony (Tenor) Performer

Kahn, Kemal. Performer

Levine, James, 1943-2021. Conductor

Allen, Peter, 1920-2016. Commentator

Corigliano, John, 1938- Commentator

Livingstone, William. Commentator

Ellison, Cori. Commentator

Hubay, Alfred. Commentator

Weaver, William, 1923-2013, commentator.

Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.)

Added Title

Texaco's opera quiz (Radio program)

Added Title

Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (Radio program)

Research Call Number

*LDC 32519

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