side 1. Introduction and synopsis of act 1 (Milton Cross) ; Opera news on the air (Deems Taylor, host, with Richard Bonelli and Frank Guarrera) ; Synopsis of act 2 (Cross) ; Texaco's opera quiz (Robert Lawrence, host, with Robert Bagar, Sigmund Spaeth and Jay S. Harrison) ; Synopsis of act 3 (Cross) -- side 2. The Metropolitan in a changing world (Irving S. Oles and Louis L. Stross) ; Synopsis of act 4 (Cross) -- side 3. Act 1 -- side 4. Act 2 -- side 5. Act 3 -- side 6. Act 4 ; Closing remarks (Cross).
Call number
*LT-10 4938
Note
Title from house program ; series title from Opera news.
Durations: 0:59:56 (synopses and features) ; 2:01:14 (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
Performer (note)
Jan Peerce (Duke) ; Robert Merrill (Rigoletto) ; Hilde Gueden (Gilda) ; Lubomir Vichegonov (Sparafucile) ; Jean Madeira (Maddalena) ; Thelma Votipka (Giovanna) ; Norman Scott (Monterone) ; Clifford Harvuot (Marullo) ; Paul Franke (Borsa) ; Lawrence Davidson (Count Ceprano) ; Maria Leone (Countess Ceprano) ; Sandra Warfield (A page) ; Algerd Brazis (Chief guard) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; Alberto Erede, conductor ; Milton Cross, broadcast announcer.
Event (note)
Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Dec. 12, 1953.
Reproduction (note)
Service copy (3 sound cassettes : analog, mono., Dolby-B processed) available in: *LTCM 389 (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
005956 020114
Series
Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Dec. 12, 1953]
Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Dec. 12, 1953]
Cast
Jan Peerce (Duke) ; Robert Merrill (Rigoletto) ; Hilde Gueden (Gilda) ; Lubomir Vichegonov (Sparafucile) ; Jean Madeira (Maddalena) ; Thelma Votipka (Giovanna) ; Norman Scott (Monterone) ; Clifford Harvuot (Marullo) ; Paul Franke (Borsa) ; Lawrence Davidson (Count Ceprano) ; Maria Leone (Countess Ceprano) ; Sandra Warfield (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 Dec. 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. 18, no. 5 (Dec. 7, 1953).
Event
Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Dec. 12, 1953.
Reproduction
Service copy (3 sound cassettes : analog, mono., Dolby-B processed) available in: *LTCM 389 (F)
Language
Sung in Italian.
Added author
Piave, Francesco Maria, 1810-1876. Librettist
Peerce, Jan, 1904-1984. Performer
Merrill, Robert, 1917-2004 Performer
Güden, Hilde. Performer
Vichegonov, Lubomir. 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
Leone, Maria (Soprano) Performer
Warfield, Sandra. Performer
Brazis, Algerd. Performer
Erede, Alberto. Conductor
Cross, Milton, 1897-1975. Commentator
Taylor, Deems, 1885-1966. Commentator
Bonelli, Richard. Commentator
Guarrera, Frank, 1923- Commentator
Lawrence, Robert, 1912- Commentator
Bagar, Robert C. Commentator
Spaeth, Sigmund, 1885-1965. Commentator
Harrison, Jay. Commentator
Oles, Irving S. Commentator
Stross, Louis L. Commentator
Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.)
Added title
Opera news on the air (Radio program)
Texaco's opera quiz (Radio program)
Metropolitan in a changing world (Radio program)
Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (Radio program)
Research call number
*LT-10 4938 Master tape. Request cassette service copy in *LTCM 389 (F)
*LTCM 389 (F) Cassette service copy; production notes on file. Master tape in *LT-10 4938.