side 1. Introduction and synopsis of act 1 (Milton Cross) ; Opera news on the air (Boris Goldovsky, host, with Vittorio Giannini and Frank St. Leger) ; Synopsis of act 2 (Cross) ; Texaco's opera quiz (Robert Lawrence, host, with Deems Taylor, Walter Ducloux and Regina Resnik) -- side 2. Synopsis of act 3 (Cross) ; Mrs August Belmont on the new National Council ; 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 4893
Note
Sung in Italian.
Title from house program ; series title from Opera news.
Durations: 1:06:32 (synopses and features) ; 2:03:28 (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. 7, 1953.
Reproduction (note)
Service copy (3 sound cassettes : analog, mono., Dolby-B processed) available in: *LTCM 343 (F)
Author
Verdi, Giuseppe, 1813-1901.
Title
Rigoletto [sound recording] : opera in four acts / music by Giuseppe Verdi ; libretto by F.M. Piave.
Playing time
10632 20328
Series
Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Mar. 7, 1953]
Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Mar. 7, 1953]
Performer
Eugene Conley (Duke) ; Leonard Warren (Rigoletto) ; Hilde Gueden (Gilda) ; Jean Madeira (Maddalena) ; Nicola Moscona (Sparafucile) ; Thelma Votipka (Giovanna) ; Norman Scott (Monterone) ; Clifford Harvuot (Marullo) ; Gabor Carelli (Borsa) ; Lawrence Davidson (Count Ceprano) ; Paula Lenchner (Countess Ceprano) ; Margaret Roggero (A page) ; Algerd Brazis (Chief guard) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; Alberto Erede, conductor ; Milton Cross, broadcast announcer.
Indexed in:
Opera news, v. 17, no. 18 (Mar. 2, 1953).
Event
Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Mar. 7, 1953.
Original version
Preservation tapes recorded at NYPL in Mar. 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 343 (F)
Added author
Conley, Eugene, 1908-1981. Performer
Warren, Leonard, 1911-1960. Performer
Güden, Hilde. Performer
Moscona, Nicola. Performer
Madeira, Jean. Performer
Votipka, Thelma. Performer
Scott, Norman, 1921-1968 Performer
Harvuot, Clifford, 1912-1990. Performer
Carelli, Gabor. Performer
Davidson, Lawrence. Performer
Lenchner, Paula. Performer
Roggero, Margaret. Performer
Brazis, Algerd. Performer
Erede, Alberto. Conductor
Cross, Milton, 1897-1975. Commentator
Goldovsky, Boris. Commentator
Giannini, Vittorio, 1903-1966. Commentator
St. Leger, Frank. Commentator
Lawrence, Robert, 1912- Commentator
Taylor, Deems, 1885-1966. Commentator
Ducloux, Walter. Commentator
Resnik, Regina, 1922-2013. Commentator
Belmont, Eleanor Robson, 1879- Commentator
Piave, Francesco Maria, 1810-1876 Librettist
Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.)
Added title
Opera news on the air (Radio program)
Texaco's opera quiz (Radio program)
Metropolitan Opera National Council
Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (Radio program)
Research call number
*LT-10 4893 Master tape. Request cassette service copy in *LTCM 343(F).
*LTCM 343 (F) Cassette service copy; production notes on file. Master tape in *LT10-4893.