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Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro
Nozze di Figaro
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- Included Title
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- Standard Hour Program (Radio program)
- Format
- Sound Recordings
- Languages
- German, Italian, French
- Contributors
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- Da Ponte, Lorenzo, 1749-1838, librettist
- Pinza, Ezio, singer
- Sayão, Bidú, singer
- Novotná, Jarmila, 1907-1994, singer
- Steber, Eleanor, singer
- Baccaloni, Salvatore, 1900-1969, singer
- Breisach, Paul, conductor
- Conley, Eugene, 1908-1981, singer
- Merola, Gaetano, conductor
- Lalo, Édouard, 1823-1892. Roi d'Ys
- Gounod, Charles, 1818-1893. Faust
- Boito, Arrigo, 1842-1918. Mefistofele
- Massenet, Jules, 1842-1912. Manon
- Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.)
- San Francisco Opera
- Publication
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- St. Helier, Jersey, Channel Islands : Guild Historical, [2002]
- ℗2002
- Series
- Physical Details
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- 3 audio discs : digital ; 4 3/4 in
- OCLC
- ocm49980950
- Credits
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- Ezio Pinza ; Bidú Sayão ; Jarmila Novotna ; Eleanor Steber ; Salvatore Baccaloni ; supporting soloists ; Chorus and Orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera ; Paul Breisach, conductor
- Guild Historical: GHCD 2203--GHCD 2205 (On container spine: GHCD 2203/5).
- "Immortal performances."
- Opera in 4 acts.
- Libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte.
- Compact discs.
- Duration: 2:39:00 (Le nozze).
- Program notes and biographical notes on the singers by Richard Caniell and Marc Rochester (30 p. : ill.) in container.
- Includes Standard Hour concert, Sept. 28, 1951 (Bidú Sayão, soprano ; Eugene Conley, tenor ; Orchestra of the San Francisco Opera and Chorus ; Gaetano Merola, conductor ; with broadcast commentary): Le roi d'Ys. Vainement, ma bien aimé / Eduard Lalo -- Faust. Le roi de Thulé ; and Jewel song / Charles Gounod -- Mefistofele. L'altra notte in fondo al mare / Arrigo Boito -- Manon. Ah fuyez, douce image ; and J'ai marqué l'heure du départ / Jules Massenet.
- Recorded from a 1943 radio broadcast and preserved on NBC transcription discs; where required by poor condition of this source "an interpolation (with the same cast) from a different broadcast [is substituted]"--Booklet, p. 25.
- Sung in Italian.