Manon Lescaut [sound recording] : opera in four acts / music by Giacomo Puccini ; libretto by Messrs. Praga, Oliva, Leoncavallo, Illica, Giacosa and Ricordi, after the novel by the Abbée Prévost.
side 1. Introduction and synopsis of act 1 (Milton Cross) ; Opera news on the air (Boris Goldovsky, host, with Max Rudolf) ; Synopsis of act 2 (Cross) ; Texaco's opera quiz (Deems Taylor, host, with Mary Ellis Peltz, George Marek and Walter Ducloux) ; Synopsis of act 3 (Cross) -- side 2. Third intermission feature (Mrs. Walter Sands Marven and Dimitri Mitropoulos) ; Synopsis of act 4 -- side 3. Act 1 -- side 4. Act 2 -- side 5. Act 3 -- side 6. Act 4 ; Closing remarks (Cross).
Call number
*LT-10 4919
Note
Title from house program ; series title from Opera news.
Durations: 0:58:31 (synopses and features) ; 2:04:46 (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)
Dorothy Kirsten (Manon) ; Giuseppe Valdengo (Lescaut) ; Richard Tucker (Des Grieux) ; Gerhard Pechner (Geronte) ; Leslie Chabay (Edmondo) ; Alessio De Paolis (Ballet master) ; Lawrence Davidson (Innkeeper) ; Margaret Roggero (Musician) ; Clifford Harvuot (Sergeant) ; Paul Franke (Lamplighter) ; Osie Hawkins (Captain) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; Fausto Cleva, conductor ; Milton Cross, broadcast announcer.
Event (note)
Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Nov. 18, 1950.
Reproduction (note)
Service copy (3 sound cassettes : analog, mono., Dolby-B processed) available in: *LTCM 370 (F)
Language (note)
Sung in Italian.
Author
Puccini, Giacomo, 1858-1924.
Title
Manon Lescaut [sound recording] : opera in four acts / music by Giacomo Puccini ; libretto by Messrs. Praga, Oliva, Leoncavallo, Illica, Giacosa and Ricordi, after the novel by the Abbée Prévost.
Playing time
005831 020446
Series
Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Nov. 18, 1950]
Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of] Nov. 18, 1950.
Cast
Dorothy Kirsten (Manon) ; Giuseppe Valdengo (Lescaut) ; Richard Tucker (Des Grieux) ; Gerhard Pechner (Geronte) ; Leslie Chabay (Edmondo) ; Alessio De Paolis (Ballet master) ; Lawrence Davidson (Innkeeper) ; Margaret Roggero (Musician) ; Clifford Harvuot (Sergeant) ; Paul Franke (Lamplighter) ; Osie Hawkins (Captain) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; Fausto Cleva, conductor ; Milton Cross, broadcast announcer.
Indexed in:
Opera news, v. 15, no. 4 (Nov. 13, 1950).
Event
Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Nov. 18, 1950.
Original version
Preservation tape, recorded at NYPL in Aug. 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 370 (F)
Language
Sung in Italian.
Added author
Praga, Marco, 1862-1929. Librettist
Oliva, Domenico. Librettist
Leoncavallo, Ruggiero, 1858-1919. Librettist
Illica, Luigi, 1857-1919. Librettist
Giacosa, Giuseppe, 1847-1906. Librettist
Ricordi, Giulio, 1840-1912. Librettist
Prévost, abbé, 1697-1763. Manon Lescaut.
Kirsten, Dorothy, 1910-1992. Performer
Valdengo, Giuseppe, 1914- Performer
Tucker, Richard, 1913-1975. Performer
Pechner, Gerhard. Performer
Chabay, Leslie, 1907- Performer
De Paolis, Alessio. Performer
Davidson, Lawrence (Baritone) Performer
Roggero, Margaret. Performer
Harvuot, Clifford, 1912-1990. Performer
Franke, Paul, 1917-2011. Performer
Hawkins, Osie. Performer
Cleva, Fausto. Conductor
Cross, Milton, 1897-1975. Commentator
Goldovsky, Boris. Commentator
Rudolf, Max, 1902-1995. Commentator
Taylor, Deems, 1885-1966. Commentator
Peltz, Mary Ellis, 1896-1981. Commentator
Marek, George R. (George Richard), 1902-1987. Commentator
Ducloux, Walter. Commentator
Marven, Walter Sands, Mrs. Commentator
Mitropoulos, Dimitri, 1896-1960. 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).
Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (Radio program)
Research call number
*LT-10 4919 Master tape. Request cassette service copy in *LTCM 370 (F)
*LTCM 370 (F) Cassette service copy; production notes on file. Master tape in *LT-10 4919.