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Rigoletto [incomplete].

Title: Rigoletto [incomplete]. Act 2 [sound recording] / Giuseppe Verdi ; libretto by Francesco Maria Piave.
Author: Verdi, Giuseppe, 1813-1901.
Publication: [New York, NY] : Metropolitan Opera, 1947.

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Description

2 sound discs : digital, stereo.; 4 3/4 in.

Donor/Sponsor

Gift of the Metropolitan Opera.

Series Statement

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Broadcast; [broadcast of] Mar. 1, 1947

Uniform Title

Rigoletto Atto 2o.
Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (Radio program)
Opera news on the air (Radio program)
Texaco's opera quiz (Radio program)

Alternative Title

Rigoletto Atto 2o.

Subject

Operas

Genre/Form

Live sound recordings.

Note

Recording consists of Act 2 of the opera and the intermission features only.
Compact discs.
House program on file in Music Division.

Event (note)

Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Mar. 1, 1947.

Source (note)

Metropolitan Opera;

Language (note)

Sung in Italian.

Contents

CD 1. Act 2 -- CD 2. Opening announcements (Milton Cross) ; Synopsis of Act 1 (Cross) ; Opera News on the Air (Boris Goldovsky questions Risë Stevens, guest) ; Synopsis of Act 2 (Cross) ; Opera Round Table (Robert Lawrence moderates a discussion on 'Has opera kept pace with changes in the other arts' with Dr. Paul Lang, Olga Samaroff Stokowski, and Olin Downes) ; Synopsis of Act 3 (Cross) ; Opera Quiz (Olin Downes questions Sigmund Spaeth, Robert Bagar, and George Marek) ; Synopsis of Act 4 (Cross) ; Closing announcements (Cross)

Call Number

*LDC 32489

OCLC

NYPG04-R111

Author

Verdi, Giuseppe, 1813-1901.

Title

Rigoletto [incomplete]. Act 2 [sound recording] / Giuseppe Verdi ; libretto by Francesco Maria Piave.

Imprint

[New York, NY] : Metropolitan Opera, 1947.

Series

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Broadcast; [broadcast of] Mar. 1, 1947

Performer

Leonard Warren (Rigoletto) ; Hjördis Schymberg (Gilda) ; Jan Peerce (Duke of Mantua) ; Martha Lipton (Maddalena) ; Giacomo Vaghi (Sparafucile) ; Osie Hawkins (Monterone) ; Alessio De Paolis (Borsa) ; George Cehanovsky (Marullo) ; John Baker (Count Ceprano) ; Maxine Stellman (Countess Ceprano) ; Thelma Altman (Giovanna) ; Irene Jordan (Page) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra ; Cesare Sodero, conductor ; Milton Cross, broadcast announcer.

Event

Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Mar. 1, 1947.

Language

Sung in Italian.

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Added Author

Piave, Francesco Maria, 1810-1876. Librettist

Warren, Leonard, 1911-1960. Performer

Schymberg, Hjördis, 1909- Performer

Peerce, Jan, 1904-1984. Performer

Lipton, Martha. Performer

Vaghi, Giacomo. Performer

Hawkins, Osie. Performer

De Paolis, Alessio. Performer

Cehanovsky, George, 1892-1986. Performer

Baker, John, 1911- Performer

Stellman, Maxine. Performer

Altman, Thelma. Performer

Jordan, Irene, 1919-2016. Performer

Sodero, Cesare, 1886-1947. Conductor

Cross, Milton, 1897-1975. Commentator

Goldovsky, Boris. Commentator

Stevens, Risë, 1913-2013. Commentator

Lawrence, Robert, 1912- Commentator

Lang, Paul Henry, 1901-1991. Commentator

Samaroff Stokowski, Olga, 1882-1948. Commentator

Downes, Olin, 1886-1955. Commentator

Spaeth, Sigmund, 1885-1965. Commentator

Bagar, Robert C. Commentator

Marek, George R. (George Richard), 1902-1987. Commentator

Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.)

Added Title

Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (Radio program)

Opera news on the air (Radio program)

Texaco's opera quiz (Radio program)

Research Call Number

*LDC 32489

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