side 1. Introduction and synopsis of act 1 (Milton Cross) ; Opera news on the air (Boris Goldovsky, host, with Helen Hayes and Giovanni Martinelli) ; Synopsis of act 2 (Cross) ; Texaco's opera quiz (Robert Lawrence, host, with Sigmund Spaeth, Walter Ducloux and Francis Robinson) -- side 2. Synopsis of act 3 (Cross) ; Texaco's roving opera reporter (Clifton Fadiman, host, with Rudolf Bing) ; Synopsis of act (Cross) -- side 3. Preludio ; Act 1 through "Voce di Donna" -- side 4. Act 1 concluded -- side 5. Act 2 -- side 6. Act 3 through Synopsis of scene 2 -- side 7. Act 3 concluded -- side 8. Act 4 ; Closing remarks (Cross).
Call number
*LT-10 6091
Note
Title from house program ; series title from Opera news.
Durations: 1:09:14 (synopses and features) ; 2:47:41 (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, Apr. 2, 1955.
Reproduction (note)
Service copy (4 sound cassettes : analog, mono., Dolby-B processed) available in: *LTCM 425 (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
010914 024741
Series
Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Apr. 2, 1955]
Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Apr. 2, 1955]
Performer
Zinka Milanov (Gioconda) ; Nell Rankin (Laura) ; Georgio Tozzi (Alvise) ; Sandra Warfield (La Cieca) ; Kurt Baum (Enzo) ; Leonard Warren (Barnaba) ; George Cehanovsky (Zuane) ; James McCracken (First singer) ; Calvin Marsh (Second singer, A steersman) ; Alessio De Paolis (Isepo) ; Louis Sgarro (A monk) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; Fausto Cleva, conductor ; Milton Cross, broadcast announcer.
Original version
Preservation tape, recorded at NYPL in May, 1990, 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. 19, no. 21 (Mar. 28, 1955).
Event
Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Apr. 2, 1955.
Reproduction
Service copy (4 sound cassettes : analog, mono., Dolby-B processed) available in: *LTCM 425 (F)
Language
Sung in Italian.
Added author
Boito, Arrigo, 1842-1918. Librettist
Milanov, Zinka. Performer
Rankin, Nell. Performer
Tozzi, Giorgio. Performer
Warfield, Sandra. Performer
Baum, Kurt, 1900-1989. Performer
Warren, Leonard, 1911-1960. Performer
Cehanovsky, George, 1892-1986. Performer
McCracken, James, 1926- Performer
Marsh, Calvin. Performer
De Paolis, Alessio. Performer
Sgarro, Louis, 1920-1985. Performer
Cleva, Fausto. Conductor
Cross, Milton, 1897-1975. Commentator
Goldovsky, Boris. Commentator
Hayes, Helen, 1900-1993. Commentator
Martinelli, Giovanni, 1885-1969. Commentator
Lawrence, Robert, 1912- Commentator
Spaeth, Sigmund, 1885-1965. Commentator
Ducloux, Walter. Commentator
Robinson, Francis, 1910- Commentator
Fadiman, Clifton, 1904-1999, host.
Bing, Rudolf, 1902-1997. Commentator
Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.)
Added title
Opera news on the air (Radio program)
Texaco's opera quiz (Radio program)
Texaco's roving opera reporter (Radio program)
Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (Radio program)
Research call number
*LT-10 6091 Master tape. Request cassette service copy in *LTCM 425 (F)
*LTCM 425 (F) Cassette service copy; production notes on file. Master tape in *LT-10 6091.