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Mignon

Title: Mignon [sound recording] / music by Ambroise Thomas ; libretto by Michel Carré and Jules Barbier.
Author: Thomas, Ambroise, 1811-1896.
Publication: [New York, NY] : Metropolitan Opera, [2002]

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Description

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

Donor/Sponsor

Gift of the Metropolitan Opera.

Series Statement

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of] Jan. 27, 1945.

Uniform Title

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

Subject

Operas

Genre/Form

Live sound recordings.

Note

Durations: 56:42 (announcements, synopses and intermission features) ; 2:34:44 (opera).
Compact discs.
House program on file in Music Division.

Performer (note)

Risë Stevens (Mignon) ; Mimi Benzell (Philine) ; Lucielle Browning (Frédéric) ; James Melton (Wilhelm) ; Ezio Pinza (Lothario) ; Donald Dame (Laërte) ; John Gurney (Jarno) ; Osie Hawkins (Antonio) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; Wilfrid Pelletier, conductor ; Milton Cross, broadcast announcer.

Event (note)

Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Jan. 27, 1945.

Source (note)

Metropolitan Opera;

Language (note)

Sung in French.

Contents

CD 1. Introduction and synopsis of Act 1 (Milton Cross) ; Act 1 -- CD 2. Act 2 -- CD 3. Act 3 ; Closing remarks (Cross) -- CD 4. Opera victory rally (Metropolitan Opera Board member Thomas J. Watson, rally chairman, introduces Henry J. Kaiser who speaks on Free enterprise and peace ; Mrs. Joseph J. Truesdale speaks about next week's rally) ; Synopsis of Act 2 (Cross) ; Opera forum quiz (Olin Downes questions Robert Bagar, George Marek, and Sigmund Spaeth) ; Synopsis of Act 3 (Cross).

Call Number

*LDC 32726

OCLC

NYPG04-R306

Author

Thomas, Ambroise, 1811-1896.

Title

Mignon [sound recording] / music by Ambroise Thomas ; libretto by Michel Carré and Jules Barbier.

Imprint

[New York, NY] : Metropolitan Opera, [2002]

Series

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of] Jan. 27, 1945.

Cast

Risë Stevens (Mignon) ; Mimi Benzell (Philine) ; Lucielle Browning (Frédéric) ; James Melton (Wilhelm) ; Ezio Pinza (Lothario) ; Donald Dame (Laërte) ; John Gurney (Jarno) ; Osie Hawkins (Antonio) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; Wilfrid Pelletier, conductor ; Milton Cross, broadcast announcer.

Event

Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Jan. 27, 1945.

Language

Sung in French.

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Added Author

Carré, Michel, 1819-1872. Librettist

Barbier, Jules, 1825-1901. Librettist

Stevens, Risë, 1913- Performer

Benzell, Mimi. Performer

Browning, Lucielle. Performer

Melton, James, 1904-1961. Performer

Pinza, Ezio. Performer

Dame, Donald. Performer

Gurney, John, 1902-1997. Performer

Hawkins, Osie. Performer

Pelletier, Wilfrid, 1896-1982. Conductor

Cross, Milton, 1897-1975. Commentator

Watson, Thomas J., 1914-1993. Commentator

Kaiser, Henry J., 1882- Commentator

Truesdale, Joseph J., Mrs. Commentator

Downes, Olin, 1886-1955. Commentator

Bagar, Robert C. Commentator

Marek, George R. (George Richard), 1902-1987. Commentator

Spaeth, Sigmund, 1885-1965. Commentator

Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.)

Added Title

Opera victory rally (Radio program)

Texaco's opera quiz (Radio program)

Added Title

Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (Radio program)

Research Call Number

*LDC 32726

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