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Mignon opera in three acts

Title: Mignon [sound recording] : opera in three acts / music by Ambroise Thomas ; libretto by Michel Carré and Jules Barbier.
Author: Thomas, Ambroise, 1811-1896.
Publication: [New York, NY] : Metropolitan Opera, [2003]

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Description

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

Donor/Sponsor

Gift of the Metropolitan Opera.

Series Statement

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Broadcast ; [broadcast of] December 4, 1948
Texaco Metropolitan Opera Radio Broadcast ; [broadcast of] December 4, 1948.

Uniform Title

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

Subject

Operas

Genre/Form

Live sound recordings.

Note

Subtitle from house program.
Durations: 2:24:00 (opera) ; 38:26 (Synopses and intermission features).
Compact discs.
House program on file in Music Division.

Performer (note)

Risë Stevens (Mignon) ; Marilyn Cotrow (Philine) ; Jean Madeira (Frédéric) ; James Melton (Wilhelm) ; Nicola Moscona (Lothario) ; John Garris (Laërte) ; Osie Hawkins (Jarno) ; Lawrence Davidson (Antonio) ; Metropolitan Opera Chorus and Orchestra ; Wilfrid Pelletire, conductor ; Milton Cross, broadcast announcer.

Event (note)

Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, December 4, 1948.

Language (note)

Sung in French.

Contents

CD 1. Act 1 -- CD 2. Act 2 -- CD 3. Act 3 -- CD 4. Opera news on the air (Boris Goldovsky speaks with Gladys Swarthout and Charles Kullman about Mignon) ; Synopsis of Act 2 (Cross) ; Opera quiz (Robert Lawrence questions Robert Bagar, Sigmund Spaeth, and Lawrence Tibbett) ; Synopsis of Act 3 (Cross).

Call Number

*LDC 32511 [CD]

OCLC

NYPG05-R10003

Author

Thomas, Ambroise, 1811-1896.

Title

Mignon [sound recording] : opera in three acts / music by Ambroise Thomas ; libretto by Michel Carré and Jules Barbier.

Imprint

[New York, NY] : Metropolitan Opera, [2003]

Series

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Broadcast ; [broadcast of] December 4, 1948

Texaco Metropolitan Opera Radio Broadcast ; [broadcast of] December 4, 1948.

Cast

Risë Stevens (Mignon) ; Marilyn Cotrow (Philine) ; Jean Madeira (Frédéric) ; James Melton (Wilhelm) ; Nicola Moscona (Lothario) ; John Garris (Laërte) ; Osie Hawkins (Jarno) ; Lawrence Davidson (Antonio) ; Metropolitan Opera Chorus and Orchestra ; Wilfrid Pelletire, conductor ; Milton Cross, broadcast announcer.

Event

Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, December 4, 1948.

Language

Sung in French.

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Added Author

Carré. Michel, 1819-1872. Librettist

Barbier, Jules, 1825-1901. Librettist

Stevens, Risë, 1913- Performer

Cotlow, Marilyn. Performer

Madeira, Jean. Performer

Melton, James, 1904-1961. Performer

Moscona, Nicola. Performer

Garris, John, 1911-1949. Performer

Hawkins, Osie. Performer

Davidson, Lawrence (Baritone)

Pelletier, Wilfrid, 1896-1982. Conductor

Cross, Milton, 1897-1975. Commentator

Goldovsky, Boris. Commentator

Swarthout, Gladys, 1904- Commentator

Kullman, Charles, 1903-1983. Commentator

Lawrence, Robert, 1912- Commentator

Bagar, Robert C. Commentator

Spaeth, Sigmund, 1885-1965. Commentator

Tibbett, Lawrence, 1896-1960. Commentator

Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.)

Added Title

Opera news on the air (Radio program)

Texaco's opera quiz (Radio program)

Added Title

Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (Radio program)

Research Call Number

*LDC 32511 [CD]

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