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Madama Butterfly opera in three acts

Title: Madama Butterfly [sound recording] : opera in three acts / music by Giacomo Puccini ; libretto by L. Illica and G. Giacosa, after the work of John Luther Long and David Belasco.
Author: Puccini, Giacomo, 1858-1924.

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Description

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

Series Statement

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of] Apr. 3, 1976

Uniform Title

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

Subjects

Genre/Form

Live sound recordings.

Note

Title from house program.
Production notes and official cast list (6 p.) on file.

Event (note)

Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, April 3, 1976.

Language (note)

Sung in Italian.

Contents

side 1. Introduction and synopsis of Act 1 (Peter Allen) ; Opera news on the air (William Weaver on Puccini's rediscovered Requiem for Giuseppe Verdi ; Geraldine Souvaine on Milton Cross) ; synopsis of Act 2 (Allen) -- side 2. Texaco's opera quiz (Paul Hume questions John Coveney, Richard Mohr, and Terry McEwen) ; synopsis of Act 3 (Allen) ; Metropolitan Opera National Auditions winner, John Carpenter, tenor, with Joan Dorneman, piano -- side 3. Act 1 -- side 4. Act 2, part 1 -- side 5. Act 2, part 2 -- side 6. Act 3 ; Closing remarks (Allen).

Call Number

*LTCM 769

OCLC

NYPG06-R1

Author

Puccini, Giacomo, 1858-1924. Composer

Title

Madama Butterfly [sound recording] : opera in three acts / music by Giacomo Puccini ; libretto by L. Illica and G. Giacosa, after the work of John Luther Long and David Belasco.

Series

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of] Apr. 3, 1976

Performer

Teresa Zylis-Gara (Cio-Cio San) ; John Alexander (B. F. Pinkerton) ; Nico Castel (Goro) ; Nedda Casei (Suzuki) ; Theodor Uppman (Sharpless) ; Gene Boucher (Imperial Commissary) ; Kun Yul Yoo (The Registrar) ; Andrij Dobriansky (The uncle-priest) ; Russell Christopher (Yamadori) ; Carlotta Ordassy (Kate Pinkerton) ; Metropolitan Opera Chorus and Orchestra ; Richard Woitach, conductor ; Peter Allen, broadcast announcer.

Event

Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, April 3, 1976.

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

Giacosa, Giuseppe, 1847-1906. Librettist

Illica, Luigi, 1857-1919. Librettist

Belasco, David, 1853-1931. Madame Butterfly.

Zylis-Gara, Teresa. Performer

Alexander, John, 1923-1990. Performer

Castel, Nico. Performer

Casei, Nedda, 1935-2020. Performer

Uppman, Theodor, 1920- Performer

Boucher, Gene. Performer

Yoo, Kun Yul. Performer

Dobriansky, Andrij. Performer

Christopher, Russell. Performer

Ordassy, Carlotta. Performer

Woitach, Richard. Conductor

Allen, Peter, 1920-2016. Commentator

Weaver, William, 1923-2013. Commentator

Souvaine, Geraldine, 1909- Commentator

Hume, Paul, 1915- Commentator

Coveney, John. Commentator

Mohr, Richard. Commentator

McEwen, Terry. Commentator

Carpenter, John, (Singer).

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

Added Title

Opera news on the air (Radio program)

Texaco's opera quiz (Radio program)

Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (Radio program)

Research Call Number

*LTCM 769 Notes on file.

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