side 1. Introduction and synopsis of act 1 (Milton Cross) ; Texaco's opera quiz (Deems Taylor, host, with Sigmund Spaeth, Mary Ellis Peltz and Louis Biancolli) ; Mrs. August Belmont and Milton Cross discuss the Metropolitan Opera Fund ; Synopsis of act 2 (Cross) -- side 2. [blank] -- side 3. Overture ; Act 1 through "Ah! fuggi il traditor" -- side 4. Act 1 concluded -- side 5. Act 2 through Synopsis of act 2, scene 2 -- side 6. Act 2 concluded ; Closing remarks (Cross).
Call number
*LT-10 4926
Note
Title from house program ; series title from Opera news.
Durations: 0:31:00 (synopses and features) ; 2:46:30 (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)
Paolo Silveri (Don Giovanni) ; Ljuba Welitsch (Donna Anna) ; Regina Resnik (Donna Elvira) ; Nadine Conner (Zerlina) ; Nicola Moscona (Il Commendatore) ; Eugene Conley (Don Ottavio) ; Salvatore Baccaloni (Leporello) ; Lorenzo Alvary (Masetto) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; Fritz Reiner, conductor ; Milton Cross, broadcast announcer.
Event (note)
Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Jan. 6, 1951.
Reproduction (note)
Service copy (3 sound cassettes : analog, mono., Dolby-B processed) available in: *LTCM 377 (F)
Language (note)
Sung in Italian.
Author
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791.
Title
Don Giovanni [sound recording] : opera in two acts / music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ; libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte.
Playing time
003100 024630
Series
Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Jan. 6, 1951]
Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Jan. 6, 1951]
Cast
Paolo Silveri (Don Giovanni) ; Ljuba Welitsch (Donna Anna) ; Regina Resnik (Donna Elvira) ; Nadine Conner (Zerlina) ; Nicola Moscona (Il Commendatore) ; Eugene Conley (Don Ottavio) ; Salvatore Baccaloni (Leporello) ; Lorenzo Alvary (Masetto) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; Fritz Reiner, conductor ; Milton Cross, broadcast announcer.
Indexed in:
Opera news, v. 15, no. 11 (Jan. 1, 1951).
Event
Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Jan. 6, 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 377 (F)
Language
Sung in Italian.
Added author
Da Ponte, Lorenzo, 1749-1838. bt.
Silveri, Paolo. Performer
Welitsch, Ljuba. Performer
Resnik, Regina, 1922-2013. Performer
Conner, Nadine. Performer
Moscona, Nicola. Performer
Conley, Eugene, 1908-1981. Performer
Baccaloni, Salvatore, 1900-1969. Performer
Alvary, Lorenzo, 1909- Performer
Reiner, Fritz, 1888-1963. Conductor
Cross, Milton, 1897-1975. Commentator
Belmont, Eleanor Robson, 1879- Commentator
Taylor, Deems, 1885-1966. Commentator
Spaeth, Sigmund, 1885-1965. Commentator
Peltz, Mary Ellis, 1896-1981. Commentator
Biancolli, Louis. Commentator
Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.)
Added title
Texaco's opera quiz (Radio program)
Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (Radio program)
Research call number
*LT-10 4926 Master tape. Request cassette service copy in *LTCM 377 (F)
*LTCM 377 (F) Cassette service copy; production notes on file. Master tape in *LT-10 4926.