side 1. Introduction and synopsis of act 1 (Milton Cross) ; Opera news on the air (Boris Goldovsky, host, with Russell Kraus) ; Synopsis of act 2 (Cross) ; Texaco's opera quiz (Robert Lawrence, host, with Walter Ducloux, Sigmund Spaeth and Deems Taylor) ; Synopsis of act 3 (Cross) -- side 2. Metropolitan opera mailbox (Rudolf Bing) ; Synopsis of act 4 -- side 3. Act 1 -- side 4. Act 2 -- side 5. Act 3 -- side 6. Act 4.
Call number
*LT-10 4908
Note
Sung in Italian.
Title from house program ; series title from Opera news.
Durations: 0:59:08 (synopses and features) ; 2:28:25 (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, Feb. 9, 1952.
Reproduction (note)
Service copy (3 sound cassettes : analog, mono., Dolby-B processed) available in: *LTCM 359 (F)
Author
Verdi, Giuseppe, 1813-1901.
Title
Otello [sound recording] : opera in four acts / music by Giuseppe Verdi ; libretto by Arrigo Boito.
Playing time
05908 22825
Series
Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Feb. 9, 1952]
Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Feb. 9, 1952]
Performer
Ramon Vinay (Otello) ; Eleanor Steber (Desdemona) ; Leonard Warren (Iago) ; Martha Lipton (Emilia) ; Thomas Hayward (Cassio) ; Paul Franke (Roderigo) ; Lubomir Vichegonov (Lodovico) ; Osie Hawkins (Montano) ; Algerd Brazis (A herald) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; Fritz Stiedry, conductor ; Milton Cross, broadcast announcer.
Indexed in:
Opera news, v. 16, no. 14 (Feb. 4, 1952).
Event
Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Feb. 9, 1952.
Original version
Preservation tape, recorded at NYPL in June 1952, 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 359 (F)
Added author
Boito, Arrigo, 1842-1918. Librettist
Vinay, Ramon. Performer
Steber, Eleanor. Performer
Warren, Leonard, 1911-1960. Performer
Hayward, Thomas. Performer
Franke, Paul, 1917-2011. Performer
Lipton, Martha. Performer
Vichegonov, Lubomir. Performer
Hawkins, Osie. Performer
Brazis, Algerd. Performer
Stiedry, Fritz. Conductor
Cross, Milton, 1897-1975. Commentator
Goldovsky, Boris. Commentator
Kraus, Russell. Commentator
Lawrence, Robert, 1912- Commentator
Ducloux, Walter. Commentator
Taylor, Deems, 1885-1966. Commentator
Spaeth, Sigmund, 1885-1965. Commentator
Bing, Rudolf, 1902-1997. Commentator
Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.)
Added title
Opera news on the air (Radio program)
Texaco's opera quiz (Radio program)
Metropolitan opera mailbox (Radio program)
Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (Radio program)
Research call number
*LT-10 4908 Master tape. Request cassette service copy in *LTCM 359 (F).
*LTCM 359 (F) Cassette service copy; production notes on file. Master tape in *LT-10 4908.