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Otello opera in four acts

Title: Otello [sound recording] : opera in four acts / music by Giuseppe Verdi ; book by Arrigo Boito, based on Shakespeare's tragedy.
Author: Verdi, Giuseppe, 1813-1901.

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Description

5 sound discs (in 2 containers) : digital, mono.; 4 3/4 in.

Donor/Sponsor

Gift of the Metropolitan Opera.

Series Statement

Metropolitan Opera Radio Broadcast ; [broadcast of] Feb. 24, 1940

Uniform Title

Otello
Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (Radio program)

Alternative Title

Otello
Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (Radio program)

Subject

Operas

Genre/Form

Live sound recordings.

Note

Title from house program.
Compact discs.
Durations: 1:13:28 (announcements, synopses, and intermission features) ; 2:21:40 (opera).
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. 24, 1940.

Source (note)

Metropolitan Opera;

Language (note)

Sung in Italian.

Contents

CD 1. Opening and synopsis of Act 1 (Milton Cross) ; Act 1 -- CD 2. Act 2 -- CD 3. Act 3 -- CD 4. Act 4 -- CD 5. First intermission feature (San Francisco Opera Association President Robert W. Miller discusses the Metropolitan Opera's relationship with smaller opera companies and requests donations to the Met's fund raising effort and Alexander J. Englander, a blind, long time audience member, speaks with Robert Waldrop) ; Synopsis of Act 2 ; Second intermission feature (Grace Moore speaks about the Metropolitan and requests donations to the Metropolitan Opera Fund ; Mr. Cross discusses the letter writing contest "What the Metropolitan Opera broadcasts mean to me") ; Synopsis of Act 3 ; Third intermission feature (Lawrence Tibbett speaks from his dressing room about the Met, and requests donations) ; Synopsis of Act 4.

Call Number

*LDC 33000

OCLC

NYPG06-R86

Author

Verdi, Giuseppe, 1813-1901.

Title

Otello [sound recording] : opera in four acts / music by Giuseppe Verdi ; book by Arrigo Boito, based on Shakespeare's tragedy.

Series

Metropolitan Opera Radio Broadcast ; [broadcast of] Feb. 24, 1940

Performer

Giovanni Martinelli (Otello) ; Lawrence Tibbett (Iago) ; Alessio De Paolis (Cassio) ; Giordano Paltrinieri (Roderigo) ; Nicola Moscona (Lodovico) ; George Cehanovsky (Montano) ; Wilfred Engelman (A Herald) ; Elisabeth Rethberg (Desdemona) ; Thelma Votipka (Emilia) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; Ettore Panizza, conductor.

Event

Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Feb. 24, 1940.

Indexed In:

Opera news, (Feb. 19, 1940).

Language

Sung in Italian.

Connect to:

Request Access to Music Division Audio and Moving Image material

Added Author

Boito, Arrigo, 1842-1918. Librettist

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Othello.

Martinelli, Giovanni, 1885-1969. Performer

Tibbett, Lawrence, 1896-1960. Performer. Commentator

De Paolis, Alessio. Performer

Paltrinieri, Giordano, 1890-1970. Performer

Moscona, Nicola. Performer

Cehanovsky, George, 1892-1986. Performer

Engelman, Wilfred. Performer

Rethberg, Elisabeth, 1894- Performer

Votipka, Thelma. Performer

Panizza, Héctor, 1875-1967. Conductor

Cross, Milton, 1897-1975. Commentator

Miller, Robert W. Commentator

Englander, Alexander J. Commentator

Waldrop, Robert. Commentator

Moore, Grace, 1898-1947. Commentator

Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.)

Added Title

Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (Radio program)

Added Title

Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (Radio program)

Research Call Number

*LDC 33000

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