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Tosca opera in three acts

Title: Tosca [sound recording] : opera in three acts / Giacomo Puccini ; libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa, after Victorien Sardou's play.
Author: Puccini, Giacomo, 1858-1924.

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Description

on 5 sides of 3 sound cassettes : analog, stereo., Dolby-B processed.

Series Statement

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of] Apr. 8, 1978

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

Title from house program.

Event (note)

Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, April 8, 1978.

Language (note)

Sung in Italian.

Contents

side 1. Introduction and synopsis of Act 1 (Peter Allen) ; Opera news on the air (Boris Goldovsky presents a musical and dramatic analysis of Tosca) ; synopsis of Act 2 (Allen) -- side 2. Texaco's opera quiz (Edward Downes questions Robert Jacobson, Robert Lawrence, Richard Mohr, and William Weaver) ; synopsis of Act 3 (Allen) -- side 3. Act 1 -- side 4. Act 2 -- side 5. Act 3 ; Closing remarks (Allen).

Call Number

*LTCM 828

OCLC

NYPG05-R10561

Author

Puccini, Giacomo, 1858-1924.

Title

Tosca [sound recording] : opera in three acts / Giacomo Puccini ; libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa, after Victorien Sardou's play.

Series

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of] Apr. 8, 1978

Performer

Teresa Kubiak (Tosca) ; Placido Domingo (Cavaradossi) ; Louis Quilico (Scarpia) ; Renato Capecchi (Sacristan) ; Nico Castel (Spoletta) ; Allan Monk (Angelotti) ; Russell Christopher (Sciarrone) ; Robert Sapolsky (Shepherd) ; Philip Booth (Jailer) ; Metropolitan Opera Chorus and Orchestra ; James Conlon, conductor ; Peter Allen, broadcast announcer.

Event

Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, April 8, 1978.

Original Version

Cassette tape service copy re-recorded at NYPL in 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

Illica, Luigi, 1857-1919. Librettist

Giacosa, Giuseppe, 1847-1906. Librettist

Sardou, Victorien, 1831-1908. Tosca.

Kubiak, Teresa, 1937- Performer

Domingo, Plácido, 1941- Performer

Quilico, Louis. Performer

Capecchi, Renato. Performer

Castel, Nico. Performer

Monk, Allan. Performer

Christopher, Russell. Performer

Sapolsky, Robert. Performer

Booth, Philip, 1942- Performer

Conlon, James, 1950- Conductor

Allen, Peter, 1920-2016. Commentator

Goldovsky, Boris. Commentator

Downes, Edward, 1911- Commentator

Jacobson, Robert. Commentator

Lawrence, Robert, 1912- Performer

Mohr, Richard. Commentator

Weaver, William, 1923-2013, 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 828

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