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Il trovatore opera in four acts

Title: Il trovatore [sound recording] : opera in four acts / music by Giuseppe Verdi ; libretto by Salvatore Cammarano.
Author: Verdi, Giuseppe, 1813-1901.

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Description

3 sound cassettes : stereo., Dolby-B processed.

Series Statement

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of] January 14, 1978

Uniform Title

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

Alternative Title

Trovatore

Subject

Operas

Genre/Form

Live sound recordings.

Note

Title from house program.
Durations: 58 minutes (Introduction, synopses and intermission features) ; 2:24:00 (opera).
Production notes and official cast list (6 p.) on file.

Event (note)

Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Jan. 14, 1978.

Language (note)

Sung in Italian.

Contents

side 1. Act 1 -- side 2. Act 2 -- side 3. Act 3 -- side 4. Act 4 ; Closing remarks (Peter Allen) -- side 5. Introduction and synopsis of Act 1 (Peter Allen) ; Opera news on the air (Alberta Masiello discusses Il trovatore) ; synopsis of Act 2 (Allen) ; Texaco's opera quiz, part 1 (Edward Downes questions John Ardoin, William Livingston, Richard Woitach, and Barry S. Brook) -- side 6. Texaco's opera quiz, part 2 ; Synopsis of Act 3 (Allen) ; John Culshaw discusses the January 7, 1939 Metropolitan Opera broadcast of Richard Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier ; Synopsis of Act 4 (Allen).

Call Number

*LTCM 768

OCLC

NYPG05-R10533

Author

Verdi, Giuseppe, 1813-1901.

Title

Il trovatore [sound recording] : opera in four acts / music by Giuseppe Verdi ; libretto by Salvatore Cammarano.

Series

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of] January 14, 1978

Performer

James Morris (Ferrando) ; Ariel Bybee (Inez) ; Martina Arroyo (Leonora) ; Ingvar Wixell (Count di Luna) ; Giorgio Merighi (Manrico) ; Viorica Cortez (Azucena) ; Herman Marcus (A gypsy) ; Luigi Marcella (A messenger) ; John Carpenter (Ruiz) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; Giuseppe Patané, conductor ; Peter Allen, broadcast announcer.

Event

Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Jan. 14, 1978.

Original Version

Cassette tape service copy re-recorded at NYPL in Feb. 1982, from borrowed masters (3 sound tape reels : 7 1/2 ips, 2 track, stereo ; 10 in.) lent by the Metropolitan Opera.

Language

Sung in Italian.

Added Author

Cammarano, Salvatore, 1801-1852. Trovatore.

Morris, James, 1947- Performer

Bybee, Ariel. Performer

Arroyo, Martina. Performer

Wixell, Ingvar. Performer

Merighi, Giorgio. Performer

Cortez, Viorica. Performer

Marcus, Herman. Performer

Marcella, Luigi. Performer

Carpenter, John (Singer)

Patanè, Giuseppe, 1932- Conductor

Allen, Peter, 1920-2016. Commentator

Masiello, Alberta. Commentator

Downes, Edward, 1911- Commentator

Ardoin, John. Commentator

Brook, Barry S. Commentator

Woitach, Richard. Commentator

Livingstone, William. Commentator

Culshaw, John. Commentator

Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.)

Added Title

Opera news on the air (Radio program)

Texaco's opera quiz (Radio program)

Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (Radio program)

Research Call Number

*LTCM 768 Notes on file.

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