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La traviata opera in three acts

Title: La traviata [sound recording] : opera in three acts / music by Giuseppe Verdi ; libretto by Francesco Maria Piave, after Alexandre Dumas fils' La dame aux camélias.
Author: Verdi, Giuseppe, 1813-1901.

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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] Dec. 6, 1980.

Uniform Title

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

Alternative Title

Traviata

Subject

Operas

Note

Subtitle from house program.
Compact discs.

Event (note)

Due to a labor dispute that disrupted the season, the RCA Victor recording (originally recorded in 1960) of this opera was broadcast. The intermission features were broadcast live, Dec. 6, 1980.

Source (note)

Metropolitan Opera;

Language (note)

Sung in Italian.

Contents

CD 1. Introduction and synopsis of Act 1 (Peter Allen) ; Act 1 -- CD 2. Act 2 -- CD 3. Act 3 ; Closing remarks (Allen) -- CD 4. Opera news on the air (Anthony A. Bliss, Frank E. Taplin, and Texaco CEO John K. McKinley commemorate a new season of Texaco sponsorship) ; Synopsis of Act 2 (Allen) ; Texaco's opera quiz (Edward Downes questions Alberta Masiello, Robert Jacobson, and Richard Mohr) ; Synopsis of Act 3 (Allen).

Call Number

*LDC 32036

OCLC

NYPG05-R10165

Author

Verdi, Giuseppe, 1813-1901.

Title

La traviata [sound recording] : opera in three acts / music by Giuseppe Verdi ; libretto by Francesco Maria Piave, after Alexandre Dumas fils' La dame aux camélias.

Series

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of] Dec. 6, 1980.

Performer

Anna Moffo (Violetta) ; Richard Tucker (Alfredo) ; Robert Merrill (Germont) ; Anna Reynolds (Flora) ; Piero De Palma (Gastone) ; Franco Calabrese (Douphol) ; Vito Susca (D'Obigny) ; Franco Ventriglia (Grenvil) ; Liliana Poli (Annina) ; Adelio Zagonara (Giuseppe) ; Sergio Liviabella (a gardener) ; Rome Opera Chorus and Orchestra ; Fernando Previtali, conductor ; Peter Allen, broadcast announcer.

Event

Due to a labor dispute that disrupted the season, the RCA Victor recording (originally recorded in 1960) of this opera was broadcast. The intermission features were broadcast live, Dec. 6, 1980.

Language

Sung in Italian.

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Piave, Francesco Maria, 1810-1876. Librettist

Dumas, Alexandre, 1824-1895. Dame aux camélias.

Moffo, Anna. Performer

Reynolds, Anna. Performer

Tucker, Richard, 1913-1975. Performer

Merrill, Robert, 1917-2004 Performer

De Palma, Piero. Performer

Calabrese, Franco. Performer

Susca, Vito. Performer

Ventriglia, Franco. Performer

Poli, Liliani. Performer

Zagonara, Adelio. Performer

Liviabella, Sergio. Performer

Previtali, Fernando. Conductor

Allen, Peter, 1920-2016. Commentator

Bliss, Anthony A., 1913-1991. Commentator

Taplin, Frank E. Commentator

McKinley, John K. Commentator

Downes, Edward, 1911- Commentator

Masiello, Alberta. Commentator

Jacobson, Robert M. Commentator

Mohr, Richard. Commentator

Teatro dell'opera (Rome, Italy)

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)

Publisher No.

LSC 6154 RCA Victor

Research Call Number

*LDC 32036

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