side 1. Introduction and synopsis of act 1 (Milton Cross) ; Opera news on the air (Boris Goldovsky, host, with Gladys Swarthout and Jan Peerce) ; Synopsis of act 2 (Cross) ; Texaco's opera quiz (Robert Lawrence, host, with Sigmund Spaeth, Robert Bagar, Walter Ducloux and John Gutman) -- side 2. Synopsis of act 3 (Cross) ; Opera quiz part 2 ; Synopsis of act 4 and Closing (Cross) -- side 3. Prelude Through "O Grido di Quest'anima" -- side 4. "Maledici? Sta ben" through end of act 1 -- side 5. Act 2 -- side 6. Act 3 through scene 3 -- side 7. "Benvenuti, messeri!" through end of act 3 -- side 8. Act 4.
Call number
*LT-10 4884
Note
Title from house program ; series title from Opera news.
Durations: 1:14:21 (synopses and features) ; 2:44:40 (opera).
Production notes and official cast list (5 p.) on file in the Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound.
Indexed in (note)
Opera news
Event (note)
Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Jan. 3, 1953.
Reproduction (note)
Service copy (4 sound cassettes : analog, mono., Dolby-B processed) available in: *LTCM 334 (F)
Language (note)
Sung in Italian.
Author
Ponchielli, Amilcare, 1834-1886.
Title
La Gioconda [sound recording ] : opera in four acts / music by Amilcare Ponchielli ; libretto by Tobia Gorrio (Arrigo Boito).
Playing time
011421 024440
Series
Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Jan. 03, 1953]
Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Jan. 03, 1953]
Performer
Zinka Milanov (Gioconda) ; Fedora Barbieri (Laura) ; Cesare Siepi (Alvise Badoere) ; Jean Madeira (La Cieca) ; Kurt Baum (Enzo) ; Leonard Warren (Barnaba) ; George Cehanovsky (Zuane) ; Gabor Corelli (First Singer) ; Lawrence Davidson (Second Singer) ; Alessio De Paolis (Isepo) ; Norman Scott (A monk) ; Algerd Brazis (A steerman) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; Fausto Cleva, conductor ; Milton Cross, broadcast announcer.
Original version
Preservation tapes recorded at NYPL in Mar. 1989, from aluminum-based acetates (8 sound discs : analog, 33 1/3 rpm, mono. ; 16 in.) lent by the Metropolitan Opera.
Indexed in:
Opera news, v. 17, no. 9 (Dec. 29, 1952).
Event
Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Jan. 3, 1953.
Reproduction
Service copy (4 sound cassettes : analog, mono., Dolby-B processed) available in: *LTCM 334 (F)
Language
Sung in Italian.
Added author
Boito, Arrigo, 1842-1918. Librettist
Milanov, Zinka. Performer
Barbieri, Fedora. Performer
Siepi, Cesare. Performer
Madeira, Jean. Performer
Baum, Kurt, 1900-1989. Performer
Warren, Leonard, 1911-1960. Performer
Cehanovsky, George, 1892-1986. Performer
Carelli, Gabor. Performer
Davidson, Lawrence (Baritone) Performer
De Paolis, Alessio. Performer
Scott, Norman, 1921-1968. Performer
Brazis, Algerd. Performer
Cleva, Fausto. Conductor
Cross, Milton, 1897-1975. Commentator
Goldovsky, Boris. Commentator
Swarthout, Gladys, 1904- Commentator
Peerce, Jan, 1904-1984. Commentator
Lawrence, Robert, 1912- Commentator
Spaeth, Sigmund, 1885-1965. Commentator
Bagar, Robert C. Commentator
Ducloux, Walter. Commentator
Gutman, John. Commentator
Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.)
Added title
Opera news on the air (Radio program)
Texaco's opera quiz (Radio program)
Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (Radio program)
Research call number
*LT-10 4884 Master tape. Request cassette service copy in *LTCM 334 (F)
*LTCM 334 (F) Cassette service copy; production notes on file. Master tape in *LT-10 4884.