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Un ballo in maschera : opera in three acts

Title: Un ballo in maschera : radio broadcast, 2008-01-05 [sound recording] : opera in three acts / music by Giuseppe Verdi ; libretto by Antonio Somma after Scribe's play, Gustave III, or Le bal masqué.
Author: Verdi, Giuseppe, 1813-1901.
Publication: [New York, NY] : Metropolitan Opera, [2008]

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Description

3 sound discs : digital; 4 3/4 in.

Series Statement

Metropolitan Opera Saturday matinée broadcasts
Toll Brothers--Metropolitan Opera International Radio Network ; [broadcast] of Jan. 5, 2008

Uniform Title

Ballo in maschera
Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (Radio program)
Toll Brothers-Metropolitan Opera Quiz (Radio program)

Alternative Title

Ballo in maschera

Subject

Operas

Genre/Form

Live sound recordings.

Note

Original version, set in Sweden.
Compact discs.
House program on file in Music Division.

Indexed In (note)

Opera news

Event (note)

Broadcast live from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Jan. 5, 2008.

Source (note)

Metropolitan Opera;

Language (note)

Sung in Italian.

Contents

CD 1. Introduction (Margaret Juntwait and Ira Siff discuss the opera with Gianandrea Noseda, Michèle Crider,and Ofelia Sala) ; synopsis of act 1, scene 1 (Juntwait and Siff) ; Act I, scene 1 ; synopsis of act 1, scene 2 (Juntwait and Siff) ; Act I, scene 2 ; Loren Toolajian interviews Stephanie Blythe ; Met Cameo (Naomi Lewin interviews opera fan, Danny Cardona) ; Loren Toolajian interviews Salvatore Licitra ; Tribute to Met stars who died in 2007, including clips from Met broadcasts (Beverly Sills, Frank Guarrera, Kitty Carlisle Hart, Jerry Hadley) [incomplete] -- CD 2. Loren Toolajian interviews Salvatore Licitra [incomplete] ; Tribute to Met stars who died in 2007, including clips from Met broadcasts (Beverly Sills, Frank Guarrera, Kitty Carlisle Hart, Jerry Hadley, Teresa Stich-Randall, Rose Bampton, Gian Carlo Menotti, Régine Crespin, Luciano Pavarotti) [complete] ; Juntwait interviews stage director, Peter McClintock ; Met Cameo (Naomi Lewin interviews English horn player, Pedro Díaz) ; synopsis of act 2 (Juntwait and Siff) ; Act 2 ; Met Cameo (Naomi Lewin interviews violist, Désirée Elsevier) ; Toll Brothers-Metropolitan Opera Quiz (Alice Coote, host, with William Berger, Philip Gainsley, Karen Stone, and Willie Anthony Waters) ; Met Cameo (Naomi Lewin interviews John Relyea) ; Mary Jo Heath discusses Verdi ensembles -- CD 3. Mary Jo Heath discusses Verdi ensembles [beginning omitted] ; synopsis of act 3, scene 1 ; Act 3, scene 1 ; synopsis of act 3, scene 2 ; Act 3, scene 2 ; closing remarks (Juntwait and Siff).

Call Number

*LDC 46559

OCLC

285423107

Author

Verdi, Giuseppe, 1813-1901.

Title

Un ballo in maschera : radio broadcast, 2008-01-05 [sound recording] : opera in three acts / music by Giuseppe Verdi ; libretto by Antonio Somma after Scribe's play, Gustave III, or Le bal masqué.

Imprint

[New York, NY] : Metropolitan Opera, [2008]

Series

Metropolitan Opera Saturday matinée broadcasts

Toll Brothers--Metropolitan Opera International Radio Network ; [broadcast] of Jan. 5, 2008

Performer

Michèle Crider (Amelia) ; Ofelia Sala (Oscar) ; Stephanie Blythe (Ulrica) ; Salvatore Licitra (Gustavo III) ; Dmitri Hvorostovsky (Anckarström) ; Hao Jiang Tian (De Horn) ; Andrew Gangestad (Ribbing) ; Mark Schowalter (Chief Justice) ; Jeff Mattsey (Christiano) ; Charles Anthony (Amelia's servant) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; Gianandrea Noseda, conductor.

Event

Broadcast live from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Jan. 5, 2008.

Indexed In:

Opera news, v. 72, no. 7 (Jan. 2008).

Language

Sung in Italian.

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Added Author

Somma, Antonio, 1809-1864. Librettist

Crider, Michèle. Performer. Commentator

Sala, Ofelia. Performer. Commentator

Blythe, Stephanie. Performer. Interviewee

Licitra, Salvatore, 1968- Performer. Interviewee

Hvorostovsky, Dmitri. Performer

Tian, Hao Jiang, 1954- Performer

Gangestad, Andrew. Performer

Schowalter, Mark. Performer

Mattsey, Jeff. Performer

Anthony, Charles, 1929-2012. Performer

Noseda, Gianandrea. Conductor. Commentator

Toolajian, Loren. Interviewer

Juntwait, Margaret. Commentator

Siff, Ira. Commentator

McClintock, Peter. Interviewee

Coote, Alice. Host

Berger, William, 1961- Commentator

Stone, Karen, 1952- Commentator

Gainsley, Philip. Commentator

Waters, Willie Anthony. Commentator

Heath, Mary Joanne Renner, 1954- Commentator

Cardona, Danny. Interviewee

Díaz, Pedro (Pedro R.) Interviewee

Elsevier, Désirée. Interviewee

Relyea, John. Interviewee

Lewin, Naomi. Interviewer

Scribe, Eugène, 1791-1861. Gustave III.

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

Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.) Donor NN-RHA

Added Title

Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (Radio program)

Toll Brothers-Metropolitan Opera Quiz (Radio program)

Research Call Number

*LDC 46559

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