side 1. Introduction and synopsis of act 1 (Milton Cross) ; Opera news on the air (Boris Goldovsky, host, with Rosa Ponselle) ; Synopsis of act 2 (Cross) ; Texaco's opera quiz (Robert Lawrence, host, with Mary Ellis Peltz, George Marek and Reginald Allen) ; Synopsis of act 3 (Cross) -- side 2. Third intermission feature (Rudolf Bing) ; George A. Sloan ; Synopsis of act 4 (Cross) -- side 3. Overture ; Act 1 through "Deh! proteggimi O Dio!" -- side 4. Act 1 concluded ; Act 2 -- side 5. Act 3 -- side 6. Act 4 ; Closing remarks (Cross).
Call number
*LT-10 5554
Note
Title from house program ; series title from Opera news.
Durations: 1:04:43 (synopses and features) ; 2:31:21 (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)
Cesare Siepi (Oroveso) ; Zinka Milanov (Norma) ; Gino Penno (Pollione) ; Blanche Thebom (Adalgisa) ; Maria Leone (Clotilde) ; Paul Franke (Flavio) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; Fausto Cleva, conductor ; Milton Cross, broadcast announcer.
Event (note)
Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Mar. 27, 1954.
Reproduction (note)
Service copy (3 sound cassettes : analog, mono., Dolby-B processed) available in: *LTCM 404 (F)
Language (note)
Sung in Italian.
Author
Bellini, Vincenzo, 1801-1835.
Title
Norma [sound recording] : opera in four acts / music by Vincenzo Bellini ; libretto by Felice Romani.
Playing time
010443 023121
Series
Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Mar. 27, 1954]
Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Mar. 27, 1954]
Cast
Cesare Siepi (Oroveso) ; Zinka Milanov (Norma) ; Gino Penno (Pollione) ; Blanche Thebom (Adalgisa) ; Maria Leone (Clotilde) ; Paul Franke (Flavio) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; Fausto Cleva, conductor ; Milton Cross, broadcast announcer.
Indexed in:
Opera news, v. 18, no. 20 (Mar. 22, 1954).
Event
Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Mar. 27, 1954.
Original version
Preservation tape, recorded at NYPL in Feb. 1990, from aluminum-based acetates (8 sound discs : analog, 33 1/3 rpm, mono. ; 16 in.) lent by the Metropolitan Opera.
Reproduction
Service copy (3 sound cassettes : analog, mono., Dolby-B processed) available in: *LTCM 404 (F)
Language
Sung in Italian.
Added author
Romani, Felice, 1788-1865. Librettist
Siepi, Cesare. Performer
Milanov, Zinka. Performer
Penno, Gino. Performer
Thebom, Blanche. Performer
Leone, Maria (Soprano) Performer
Franke, Paul, 1917-2011. Performer
Cleva, Fausto. Conductor
Cross, Milton, 1897-1975. Commentator
Bing, Rudolf, 1902-1997. Commentator
Sloan, George A. Commentator
Goldovsky, Boris. Commentator
Ponselle, Rosa, 1897-1981. Commentator
Lawrence, Robert, 1912- Commentator
Peltz, Mary Ellis, 1896-1981. Commentator
Marek, George R. (George Richard), 1902-1987. Commentator
Allen, Reginald. Commentator
Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.)
Added title
Third intermission feature (Radio program)
Opera news on the air (Radio program)
Texaco's opera quiz (Radio program)
Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (Radio program)
Research call number
*LT-10 5554 Master tape. Request cassette service copy in *LTCM 404 (F)
*LTCM 404 (F) Cassette service copy; production notes on file. Master tape in *LT-10 5554.