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Otello lyric drama in four acts

Title: Otello [sound recording] : lyric drama in four acts / Giuseppe Verdi ; libretto by Arrigo Boïto.
Author: Verdi, Giuseppe, 1813-1901.
Publication: [New York, NY] : Metropolitan Opera, c1974.

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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 Radio Network ; [broadcast of] Feb. 9, 1974
Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of] Feb. 9, 1974.

Uniform Title

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

Alternative Title

Otello

Subjects

Genre/Form

Live sound recordings.

Note

Sung in Italian.
Compact discs.
Durations: 2:24:22 (opera) ; 1:37:51 (synopses and features).
This performance is Kiri Te Kanawa's Metropolitan Opera debut.
Production notes and official cast list on file under classmark *LTCM 776.
House program on file in Music Division.

Indexed In (note)

Opera news

Event (note)

Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Feb. 9, 1974.

Source (note)

Metropolitan Opera;

Contents

CD 1. Introduction and synopsis of Act 1 (Milton Cross) ; Act 1 -- CD 2. Act 2 ; Act 3 -- CD 3. Act 4 ; Closing remarks (Cross) ; Opera news on the air: Alberta Masiello gives a musical and dramatic analysis of Otello ; Synopsis of Act 2 (Cross) -- CD 4. Texaco's opera quiz: Edward Downes questions Chris Mahan, William Nix, Tony Randall, and David Stivender ; Synopsis of Act 3 ; Intermission feature: Milton Cross plays excerpts from the historic album of the first Texaco broadcast on Dec. 7, 1940 of Le Nozze di Figaro, ; Synopsis of Act 4.

Call Number

*LDC 32142

OCLC

NYPG05-R10042

Author

Verdi, Giuseppe, 1813-1901.

Title

Otello [sound recording] : lyric drama in four acts / Giuseppe Verdi ; libretto by Arrigo Boïto.

Imprint

[New York, NY] : Metropolitan Opera, c1974.

Playing Time

022422 013751

Series

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of] Feb. 9, 1974

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of] Feb. 9, 1974.

Performer

Jon Vickers (Otello) ; Kiri Te Kanawa (Desdemona) ; Thomas Stewart (Iago) ; Andrea Velis (Roderigo) ; William Lewis (Cassio) ; Jean Kraft (Emilia) ; Robert Goodloe (Montano) ; Paul Plishka (Lodovico) ; David Holloway (Herald) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; James Levine, conductor ; Milton Cross, broadcast announcer.

Event

Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Feb. 9, 1974.

Indexed In:

Opera news, v. 38, no. 14 (Feb. 9, 1974).

Source

Gift; Metropolitan Opera; May, 2003.

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Added Author

Boito, Arrigo, 1842-1918. Librettist

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Othello.

Vickers, Jon. Performer

Te Kanawa, Kiri. Performer

Stewart, Thomas, 1926- Performer

Velis, Andrea, 1932-1994. Performer

Yuscarán, Guillermo. Performer

Kraft, Jean. Performer

Goodloe, Robert. Performer

Plishka, Paul, 1941- Performer

Holloway, David, 1942- Performer

Levine, James, 1943-2021. Conductor

Cross, Milton, 1897-1975. Commentator

Masiello, Alberta. Commentator

Mahan, Chris. Commentator

Nix, William. Commentator

Randall, Tony. Commentator

Stivender, David. Commentator

Downes, Edward, 1911- Commentator

Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.) Performer

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 32142

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