side 1. Introduction and synopsis of act 1 (Milton Cross) ; Texaco's opera quiz (Robert Lawrence, host, Boris Goldovsky, Mary Ellis Peltz, Robert Bagar and George Marek) ; Synopsis of act 2 and Closing remarks (Cross) -- side 2 Act 1 through "Ah! fuggi il traditor" -- side 3. "Non ti fidar, o misera" through end of act 1 -- side 4. Act 2 through "O statua gentilissima" -- side 5. "Non mi dir" through end of act 2 -- side 6. [blank].
Call number
*LTCM 330 (F)
Note
Sung in Italian.
Title from house program ; series title from Opera news.
Durations: 0:35:37 (synopses and features) ; 2:52:34 (opera).
Production notes and official cast list (4 p.) on file.
Indexed in (note)
Opera news
Event (note)
Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Dec. 6, 1952.
Reproduction (note)
Service copy (3 sound cassettes : analog, mono., Dolby-B processed) available in: *LTCM 330 (F)
Author
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791, composer.
Title
Don Giovanni [sound recording] : opera in two acts / music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ; libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte.
Playing time
03537 25234
Series
Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Dec. 06, 1952]
Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Dec. 06, 1952]
Performer
Cesare Siepi (Don Giovanni) ; Hilde Zadek (Donna Anna) ; Delia Rigal (Donna Elvira) ; Patrice Munsel (Zerlina) ; Dezso Ernster (Il Commendatore) ; Jan Peerce (Don Ottavio) ; Erich Kunz (Leporello) ; Lorenzo Alvary (Musetto) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; Fritz Reiner, conductor ; Milton Cross, broadcast announcer.
Indexed in:
Opera news, v. 17, no. 5 (Dec. 1, 1952).
Event
Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Dec. 6, 1952.
Original version
Preservation tape, recorded at NYPL in Feb. 1989, from aluminum-based acetates (8 sound discs ; : 33 1/3 rpm, mono. ; 16 in.) lent by the Metropolitian Opera.
Reproduction
Service copy (3 sound cassettes : analog, mono., Dolby-B processed) available in: *LTCM 330 (F)
Added author
Da Ponte, Lorenzo, 1749-1838, librettist.
Siepi, Cesare, performer.
Zadek, Hilde, 1917-2019, performer.
Rigal, Delia, performer.
Munsel, Patrice, 1925-2016, performer.
Ernster, Dezsö, 1898-1981, performer.
Peerce, Jan, 1904-1984, performer.
Kunz, Erich, 1909-1995, performer.
Alvary, Lorenzo, 1909- performer.
Reiner, Fritz, 1888-1963, conductor.
Cross, Milton, 1897-1975, commentator.
Lawrence, Robert, 1912- commentator.
Goldovsky, Boris, commentator.
Peltz, Mary Ellis, 1896-1981, commentator.
Bagar, Robert, commentator.
Marek, George, 1902- commentator.
Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.)
Added title
Texaco's opera quiz (Radio program)
Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (Radio program)
Research call number
*LTCM 330 (F) Cassette service copy; production notes on file.
*LT-10 4880 Master tape. Request cassette service copy in *LTCM 330 (F)