Zinka Milanov, soprano; Margaret Roggero, mezzo-soprano; Carol Smith, contralto; Jussi Bjoerling, tenor; Robert Merrill, baritone; Robert Shaw Chorale; RCA Victor Orchestra; Renato Cellini, conductor
Automatic sequence.
Program notes by W. H. Auden; synopsis, and libretto by G. Targioni-Tozzetti and G. Menasci, with English version by Nathan Haskell Dole (70 p.) laid in container.
Robert Oursler donation.
Recorded Jan. to Feb. 1953, in RCA Victor's New York studios.