Così fan tutte (Women are like that) opera in two acts
Title
Così fan tutte (Women are like that) [sound recording] : opera in two acts / music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ; libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte ; new english version by Ruth and Thomas P. Martin.
side 1. Introduction and synopsis of act 1 (Milton Cross) ; Opera news on the air (Boris Goldovsky, host, with Risë Stevens) ; Metropolitan opera mailbox (Rudolf Bing, host) ; Synopsis of act 2 (Cross) -- side 2. [blank] -- side 3. Overture and act 1 through "Smanie implacabili" -- side 4. Act 1 concluded -- side 5. Act 2 through "Donne mie, la fate a tanti" -- side 6. Act 2 concluded ; Broadcast concluded.
Call number
*LT-10 4904
Note
Sung in English.
Title from house program ; series title from Opera news.
Durations: 0:33:16 (synopses and features) ; 2:44:06 (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
Event (note)
Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Jan. 12, 1952.
Reproduction (note)
Service copy (3 sound cassettes : analog, mono., Dolby-B processed) available in: *LTCM 355 (F)
Author
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791.
Title
Così fan tutte (Women are like that) [sound recording] : opera in two acts / music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ; libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte ; new english version by Ruth and Thomas P. Martin.
Playing time
03316 24406
Series
Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Jan. 12, 1952]
Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Jan. 12, 1952]
Performer
Eleanor Steber (Fiordiligi) ; Blanche Thebom (Dorabella) ; Patrice Munsel (Despina) ; Richard Tucker (Ferrando) ; Frank Guarrera (Guglielmo) ; John Brownlee (Don Alfonso) ; Alfred Lunt (A servant) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; Fritz Stiedry, conductor ; Milton Cross, broadcast announcer.
Indexed in:
Opera news, v. 16, no. 10 (Jan. 7, 1952).
Event
Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Jan. 12, 1952.
Original version
Preservation tape, recorded at NYPL in May. 1989, from aluminum-based acetates (7 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 355 (F)
Added author
Da Ponte, Lorenzo, 1749-1838. Librettist
Martin, Ruth Berenice Kelley, 1914- Librettist
Martin, Thomas Philipp, 1909- Librettist
Steber, Eleanor. Performer
Thebom, Blanche. Performer
Munsel, Patrice, 1925- Performer
Tucker, Richard, 1913-1975. Performer
Guarrera, Frank, 1924- Performer
Brownlee, John, 1901-1969. Performer
Lunt, Alfred. Performer
Stiedry, Fritz. Conductor
Cross, Milton, 1897-1975. Commentator
Goldovsky, Boris. Commentator
Stevens, Risë, 1913-2013. Commentator
Bing, Rudolf, 1902-1997. Commentator
Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.)
Added title
Opera news on the air (Radio program)
Metropolitan Opera Mailbox (Radio program)
Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (Radio program)
Research call number
*LT-10 4904 Master tape. Request cassette service copy in *LTCM 355 (F).
*LTCM 355 (F) Cassette service copy; production notes on file. Master tape in *LT-10 4904.