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Tosca : [opera in three acts]

Title: Tosca : radio broadcast, 2012-01-28 : [opera in three acts] / music by Giacomo Puccini ; libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa.
Author: Puccini, Giacomo, 1858-1924
Publication: New York, NY : Metropolitan Opera, [2012]

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Description

3 audio discs : digital, stereo; 4 3/4 in.

Series Statement

Metropolitan Opera Saturday matinée broadcasts
Toll Brothers--Metropolitan Opera International Radio Network ; [broadcast of] January 28, 2012

Uniform Title

Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (Radio program)
Toll Brothers-Metropolitan Opera Quiz (Radio program)
Toll Brothers-Metropolitan Opera International Radio Network ; [broadcast of] January 28, 2012.
Metropolitan Opera Saturday matinée broadcasts.

Subject

Operas

Genre/Form

Live sound recordings.

Note

Title and date from the discs ; credits from audition and Metropolitan Opera program.
House program on file in Music Division.

Performer (note)

Patricia Racette (Tosca) ; Marcelo Álvarez (Cavaradossi) ; James Morris (Scarpia) ; Paul Plishka (Sacristan) ; Richard Bernstein (Angelotti) ; Joel Sorensen (Spoletta) ; James Courtney (Sciarrone) ; Neel Ram Nagarajan (Shepherd) ; David Crawford (Jailer) ; Metropolitan Opera Chorus and Orchestra ; Mikko Franck, conductor.

Source (note)

Metropolitan Opera

Language (note)

Sung in Italian.

Contents

CD 1. Introduction and synopsis of act 1 (Margaret Juntwait and Ira Stiff) ; Act 1 ; Paul Plishka farewell presentation by Peter Gelb ; Blythe talks about Plishka (on tape) ; Plishka sings "Vecchia zimarra" from La Boheme (on tape) ; Tosca Time Capsule ; Morris on his role of Scarpia with Juntwait (on tape) ; Juntwait talks with Jay Hunter Morris with excerpt from last's night Götterdämmerung (start) -- CD 2. Juntwait talks with Jay Hunter Morris (conclusion) ; Gomez speaks with Naomi Lewin about her work at the Met ; Synopsis of Act 2 ; Act 2 ; Talking Opera on Basso Buffo with Mary Jo Heath ; Toolajian interviews Racette ; Toll Brothers-Metropolitan Opera Quiz (Ken Benson questions Ashbaker, Goren, Marx with guests Owens and English hornist Díaz) -- CD 3. Toll Brothers-Metropolitan Opera Quiz (conclusion) ; Synopsis of Act 3 ; Act 3 ; Closing remarks (Juntwait and Siff).

Call Number

*LDC 53125

OCLC

868712391

Author

Puccini, Giacomo, 1858-1924, composer.

Title

Tosca : radio broadcast, 2012-01-28 : [opera in three acts] / music by Giacomo Puccini ; libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa.

Production

New York, NY : Metropolitan Opera, [2012]

Playing Time

011957 011957 004141

Type of Content

performed music

Type of Medium

audio

Type of Carrier

audio disc

Series

Metropolitan Opera Saturday matinée broadcasts

Toll Brothers--Metropolitan Opera International Radio Network ; [broadcast of] January 28, 2012

Toll Brothers-Metropolitan Opera International Radio Network ; [broadcast of] January 28, 2012.

Metropolitan Opera Saturday matinée broadcasts.

Performer

Margaret Juntwait, Ira Siff, Peter Gelb, Ken Benson, hosts ; Paul Plishka, Stephanie Blythe, James Morris, Jay Hunter Morris, Susan Ashbaker, Neal Goren, Robert Marx, Eric Owens, Mary Jo Heath, commentators ; Loren Toolajian, Naomi Lewin, interviewers ; Patricia Racette, Susie Gomez, interviewees ; Pedro Díaz, performer for the Quiz.

Cast

Patricia Racette (Tosca) ; Marcelo Álvarez (Cavaradossi) ; James Morris (Scarpia) ; Paul Plishka (Sacristan) ; Richard Bernstein (Angelotti) ; Joel Sorensen (Spoletta) ; James Courtney (Sciarrone) ; Neel Ram Nagarajan (Shepherd) ; David Crawford (Jailer) ; Metropolitan Opera Chorus and Orchestra ; Mikko Franck, conductor.

Event

Broadcast live on Sirius XM Metropolitan Opera Radio from Metropolitan Opera House, NYC 2012 January 28.

Language

Sung in Italian.

Source

Gift; Metropolitan Opera, August 2011.

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Added Author

Illica, Luigi, 1857-1919, librettist.

Giacosa, Giuseppe, 1847-1906, librettist.

Container of (work): Puccini, Giacomo, 1858-1924. Bohème. Vecchia zimarra.

Franck, Mikko, 1979- conductor.

Racette, Patricia, 1967- performer.

Racette, Patricia, 1967- interviewee.

Álvarez, Marcelo, 1962- performer.

Morris, James, 1947- performer.

Morris, James, 1947- commentator.

Plishka, Paul, 1941- performer.

Plishka, Paul, 1941- commentator.

Bernstein, Richard (Bass-baritone), performer.

Sorensen, Joel, performer.

Courtney, James, 1946- performer.

Nagarajan, Neel Ram, performer.

Crawford, David, 1978- performer.

Juntwait, Margaret, host.

Siff, Ira, commentator.

Blythe, Stephanie, commentator.

Gelb, Peter, host.

Heath, Mary Joanne Renner, 1954- commentator.

Toolajian, Loren, interviewer.

Morris, Jay Hunter, commentator.

Lewin, Naomi, interviewer.

Gomez, Susie, interviewee.

Benson, Ken ( Ken G.), host.

Ashbaker, Susan, commentator.

Goren, Neal, commentator.

Marx, Robert, commentator.

Owens, Eric, commentator.

Díaz, Pedro (Pedro R.), performer.

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

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

Metropolitan Opera Radio Broadcast collection.

Added Title

Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (Radio program)

Toll Brothers-Metropolitan Opera Quiz (Radio program)

Research Call Number

*LDC 53125

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