Le nozze di figaro [sound recording] : opera in four acts / music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ; libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte, based on Beaumarchais' play.
side 1. Introduction and synopsis of act 1 (Milton Cross) ; Opera news on the air (Boris Goldovsky, host, with Martial Singher and Brenda Lewis) ; Synopsis of act 2 (Cross) ; Texaco's opera quiz (Robert Lawrence, host, with Deems Taylor, Sigmund Spaeth and Mary Ellis Peltz) ; Synopsis of act 3 (Cross) -- side 2. 3rd intermission feature (Milton Cross, host, with Kurt Adler) ; Synopsis of act 4 (Cross) -- side 3. Act 1 -- side 4. Act 2 -- side 5. Act 3 -- side 6. Act 4.
Call number
*LT-10 4911
Note
Sung in Italian.
Title from house program ; series title from Opera news.
Durations: 1:03:50 (synopses and features) ; 2:50:36 (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, Mar. 1, 1952.
Reproduction (note)
Service copy (3 sound cassettes : analog, mono., Dolby-B processed) available in: *LTCM 362 (F)
Author
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791.
Title
Le nozze di figaro [sound recording] : opera in four acts / music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ; libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte, based on Beaumarchais' play.
Playing time
10350 25036
Series
Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Mar. 1, 1952]
Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Mar. 1, 1952]
Performer
Giuseppe Valdengo (Count Almaviva) ; Victoria de los Angeles (Countess Almaviva) ; Nadine Conner (Susanna) ; Cesare Siepi (Figaro) ; Mildred Miller (Cherubino) ; Jean Madeira (Marcellina) ; Salvatore Baccaloni (Don Bartolo) ; Alessio De Paolis (Don Basilio) ; Gabor Carelli (Don Curzio) ; Lawrence Davidson (Antonio) ; Roberta Peters (Barbarina) ; Paula Lenchner and Margaret Roggero (Two peasant girls) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; Fritz Reiner, conductor ; Milton Cross, broadcast announcer.
Indexed in:
Opera news, v. 16, no. 17 (Feb. 25, 1952).
Event
Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Mar. 1, 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 362 (F)
Added author
Da Ponte, Lorenzo, 1749-1838. Librettist
Beaumarchais, Pierre Augustin Caron de, 1732-1799. Le mariage de Figaro.
Valdengo, Giuseppe, 1914- Performer
Angeles, Victoria de los. Performer
Conner, Nadine. Performer
Siepi, Cesare. Performer
Miller, Mildred. Performer
Madeira, Jean. Performer
Baccaloni, Salvatore, 1900-1969. Performer
De Paolis, Alessio. Performer
Carelli, Gabor. Performer
Davidson, Lawrence. Performer
Peters, Roberta, 1930-2017. Performer
Lenchner, Paula. Performer
Roggero, Margaret. Performer
Reiner, Fritz, 1888-1963., cnd.
Cross, Milton, 1897-1975. Commentator
Goldovsky, Boris. Commentator
Singher, Martial. Commentator
Lewis, Brenda, 1921- Commentator
Lawrence, Robert, 1912- Commentator
Taylor, Deems, 1885-1966. Commentator
Spaeth, Sigmund, 1885-1965. Commentator
Peltz, Mary Ellis, 1896-1981. Commentator
Adler, Kurt Herbert. Commentator
Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.)
Added title
Opera news on the air (Radio program)
Texaco's opera quiz (Radio program)
"Unsung heros of opera" (Interview)
Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (Radio program)
Research call number
*LT-10 4911 Master tape. Request cassette service copy in *LTCM 362 (F).
*LTCM 362 (F) Cassette service copy; production notes on file. Master tape in *LT-10 4911.