side 1. Introduction and synopsis of act 1 (Milton Cross) ; Opera
news on the air (Boris Goldovsky, host, with Licia Albanese and Paul Affelder) ; Synopsis of act 2 (Cross) ; Texaco's opera quiz (Sigmund Spaeth, host, with Robert Bagar, Walter Ducloux and Vincent Shehan) -- side 2. Synopsis of act 3 (Cross) ; Broadway come to 39th street (John Gutman, host, with Alfred Lunt) ; Synopsis of act 4 (Cross) -- side 3. Act 1 -- side 4. Act 2 -- side 5. Act 3 -- side 6. Act 4
Call number
*LT-10 4899
Note
Title from house program ; series title from Opera news.
Durations: 0:57:00 (synopses and features) ; 2:06:25 (opera).
Production notes and official cast list (4 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, Dec. 8, 1951.
Reproduction (note)
Service copy (3 sound cassettes : analog, mono., Dolby-B processed) available in: *LTCM 350 (F)
Language (note)
Sung in Italian.
Author
Verdi, Giuseppe, 1813-1901.
Title
Rigoletto [sound recording] : opera in four acts / music by Giuseppe Verdi ; libretto by F.M. Piave.
Playing time
005700 020625
Series
Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Dec. 8, 1951]
Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Dec. 8, 1951]
Performer
Richard Tucker (The Duke) ; Leonard Warren (Rigoletto) ; Hilde Gueden (Gilda) ; Alois Pernerstorfer (Sparafucile) ; Jean Madeira (Maddalena) ; Thelma Votipka (Giovanna) ; Norman Scott (Monterone) ; Clifford Harvuot (Marullo) ; Paul Franke (Borsa) ; Lawrence Davidson (Count Ceprano) ; Anne Bollinger (Countess Ceprano) ; Margaret Roggero (A page) ; Algerd Brazis (Chief guard) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; Alberto Erede, conductor ; Milton Cross, broadcast announcer.
Original version
Preservation tape, recorded at NYPL in May. 1989, from aluminum-based acetates (7 sound discs : analog, 33 1/3 rpm, mono. ; 16 in.) lent by the Metropolitan Opera.
Indexed in:
Opera news, v. 16, no. 5 (Dec. 3, 1951).
Event
Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Dec. 8, 1951.
Reproduction
Service copy (3 sound cassettes : analog, mono., Dolby-B processed) available in: *LTCM 350 (F)
Language
Sung in Italian.
Added author
Piave, Francesco Maria, 1810-1876. Librettist
Tucker, Richard, 1913-1975. Performer
Warren, Leonard, 1911-1960. Performer
Güden, Hilde. Performer
Pernerstorfer, Alois, 1912- Performer
Madeira, Jean. Performer
Votipka, Thelma. Performer
Scott, Norman, 1921-1968. Performer
Harvuot, Clifford, 1912-1990. Performer
Franke, Paul, 1917-2011. Performer
Davidson, Lawrence (Baritone) Performer
Bollinger, Anne, 1919-1963. Performer
Roggero, Margaret. Performer
Brazis, Algerd. Performer
Erede, Alberto. Conductor
Cross, Milton, 1897-1975. Commentator
Belmont, Eleanor Robson, 1879- Commentator
Goldovsky, Boris. Commentator
Albanese, Licia. Commentator
Affelder, Paul. Commentator
Spaeth, Sigmund, 1885-1965. Commentator
Bagar, Robert C. Commentator
Ducloux, Walter. Commentator
Shehan, Vincent. Commentator
Gutman, John. Commentator
Lunt, Alfred. Commentator
Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.)
Added title
Opera news on the air (Radio program)
Texaco's opera quiz (Radio program)
Broadway comes to 39th street (Radio program)
Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (Radio program)
Research call number
*LT-10 4899 Master tape. Request cassette service copy in *LTCM 350 (F)
*LTCM 350 (F) Cassette service copy; production notes on file. Master tape in *LT- 10 4899.