side 1. Introduction and synopsis of act 1 (Milton Cross) ; Opera news on the air (Boris Goldovsky, host, with Jarmila Novotná, Robert Merrill and Richard Tucker) ; Synopsis of act 2 (Cross) ; Texaco's opera quiz (Deems Taylor, host, with Robert Bagar, Walter Ducloux and Lawrence Tibbett) ; Synopsis of act 3 (Cross) -- side 2. Third intermission feature (George A. Sloan, host, with Vincent R. Impellitteri, Katharine Cornell and James A. Linen) ; 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 4927
Note
Title from house program ; series title from Opera news.
Durations: 1:04:30 (synopses and features) ; 2:16:35 (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)
Delia Rigal (Leonora) ; Kurt Baum (Manrico) ; Leonard Warren (Count di Luna) ; Fedora Barbieri (Azucena) ; Barbara Troxell (Inez) ; Nicola Moscona (Ferrando) ; Thomas Hayward (Ruiz) ; John Baker (A gypsy) ; Alessio De Paolis (A messenger) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; Alberto Erede, conductor ; Milton Cross, broadcast announcer.
Event (note)
Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Jan. 13, 1951.
Reproduction (note)
Service copy (3 sound cassettes : analog, mono., Dolby-B processed) available in: *LTCM 378 (F)
Language (note)
Sung in Italian.
Author
Verdi, Giuseppe, 1813-1901.
Title
Il trovatore [sound recording] : opera in four acts / music by Giuseppe Verdi ; libretto by Salvatore Cammarano.
Playing time
010430 021635
Series
Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Jan. 13, 1951]
Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Jan. 13, 1951]
Cast
Delia Rigal (Leonora) ; Kurt Baum (Manrico) ; Leonard Warren (Count di Luna) ; Fedora Barbieri (Azucena) ; Barbara Troxell (Inez) ; Nicola Moscona (Ferrando) ; Thomas Hayward (Ruiz) ; John Baker (A gypsy) ; Alessio De Paolis (A messenger) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; Alberto Erede, conductor ; Milton Cross, broadcast announcer.
Indexed in:
Opera news, v. 15, no. 12 (Jan. 8, 1951).
Event
Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Jan. 13, 1951.
Original version
Preservation tape, recorded at NYPL in Sept. 1989, 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 378 (F)
Language
Sung in Italian.
Added author
Cammarano, Salvatore, 1801-1852. Librettist
Rigal, Delia. Performer
Baum, Kurt, 1900-1989. Performer
Warren, Leonard, 1911-1960. Performer
Barbieri, Fedora. Performer
Troxell, Barbara. Performer
Moscona, Nicola. Performer
Hayward, Thomas, 1921- Performer
Baker, John. Performer
De Paolis, Alessio. Performer
Erede, Alberto. Conductor
Cross, Milton, 1897-1975. Commentator
Bing, Rudolf, 1902-1997. Commentator
Goldovsky, Boris. Commentator
Novotná, Jarmila, 1907-1994. Commentator
Tucker, Richard, 1913-1975. Commentator
Merrill, Robert, 1917-2004 Commentator
Taylor, Deems, 1885-1966. Commentator
Bagar, Robert C. Commentator
Ducloux, Walter. Commentator
Tibbett, Lawrence, 1896-1960. Commentator
Impellitteri, Vincent R. (Vincent Richard), 1900-1987. Commentator
Cornell, Katharine, 1893-1974. Commentator
Linen, James A. Commentator
Sloan, George A. Commentator
Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.)
Added title
Opera news on the air (Radio program)
Texaco's opera quiz (Radio program)
Third intermission feature (Radio program)
Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (Radio program)
Research call number
*LT-10 4927 Master tape. Request cassette service copy in *LTCM 378 (F)
*LTCM 378 (F) Cassette service copy; production notes on file. Master tape in *LT-10 4927.