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Additional authors

1. Piper, Myfanwy
2. Mann, Thomas, 1875-1955.
3. Rolfe Johnson, Anthony
4. Allen, Thomas, 1944-
5. Gall, Jeffrey
6. Aroldingen, Karin von, 1941-2018.
7. Edwards, Jeffrey
8. Mendell, Sarah Elizabeth
9. Skidmore Daines, Katherine
10. Laurence, Suzanne
11. Pankevich, Anton
12. Byrne, Richard (Singer)
13. Cokorinos, Philip
14. Groves, Paul (Tenor)
15. Mercer, Gregory
16. Schaldenbrand, Christopher
17. Valdes, Eduardo (Tenor)
18. Combs, Steven
19. Fitch, Bernard
20. Vernon, Richard, 1950-
21. Gonzales, Yvonne
22. Peloso, Antoinette
23. Dufford, Dean
24. Stocker, Christopher
25. Garvin, Bradley
26. Reuter-Foss, Kitt
27. De Young, Michelle
28. Belliston, Seth
29. Best, Michael
30. Stevenson, Tony (Tenor)
31. Pessolano, Jonathan
32. Collins, Buck
33. Gormley, Clare
34. Pulley, Emily Ann
35. Litherland, Victoria
36. Warren, Nina
37. Fiorito, John
38. D'Avella, Lauren Jean
39. Bramaz, Didier
40. Conner, Jeremy
41. Köppel, Johann Daniel
42. Cornetti, Marianne
43. Hoffman, Wendy (Mezzo-soprano)
44. Forest, Michael
45. Bybee, Ariel
46. Hanna, Stephen
47. Cincione, Theresa
48. Di Franco, Loretta
49. Bender, Howard (Baritone)
50. Piper, David (Singer)
51. Creech, Philip
52. Jepson, Kristine
53. Bishop, Elizabeth (Mezzo-soprano)
54. Skok, Heidi
55. Anguish, Elizabeth
56. Bush, Sandra
57. Green, Constance
58. Olson, Joyce
59. Steiner, Patricia
60. Alpert, Glenn
61. Asch, David (Singer)
62. Crolius, Ross
63. Pariso, Joseph
64. Reese, Irwin
65. Atherton, David, 1944-
66. Allen, Peter, 1920-
67. Burton, Humphrey, 1931-
68. Graham, Colin, 1931-
69. Downes, Edward, 1911-
70. Eckert, Thor, Jr.
71. McNally, Terrence
72. Purdy, Christopher
73. Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.)
74. Metropolitan Opera Radio Broadcast collection

Description

1. 4 sound discs (215 min.) : digital, stereo.; 4 3/4 in.

Donor/Sponsor

1. Gift of the Metropolitan Opera.

Series statement

1. Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of] Feb. 26, 1994
2. Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of] Feb. 26, 1994.

Uniform title

1. Texaco's opera quiz (Radio program)
2. Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (Radio program)

Subject

1. Operas

Genre/Form

1. Live sound recordings.

Contents

1. CD 1. Act 1, Part 1 -- CD 2. Act 1, Part 2 -- CD 3. Act 2 ; Closing remarks (Peter Allen) -- CD 4. Introduction (Peter Allen) ; Pre-curtain feature: Humphrey Burton discusses Death in Venice with Colin Graham, David Atherton, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, and Thomas Allen; Linda Hall, pianist ; Synopsis of Act 1 (Allen) ; Texaco's opera quiz (Edward Downes, host, with Thor Eckert Jr., Terrence McNally and Christopher Purdy) ; Synopsis of Act 2 (Allen).

Call number

1. *LDC 33913

Note

1. Durations: 1:03:25 (synopses and features) ; 2:31:20 (opera).
2. Compact discs.
3. Production notes and official cast list (6 p.) filed under classmark: *LTCM 739 (F).
4. House program on file in Music Division.

Indexed in (note)

1. Opera news

Performer (note)

1. Wendy Hoffman (Lace seller) ; Michael Forest (Glass maker) ; Ariel Bybee (Beggar woman) ; Stephen Hanna (Her son) ; Steven Combs (Restaurant waiter) ; Theresa Cincione (Newspaper seller) ; Loretta Di Franco (Flower seller) ; Howard Bender (Postcard seller) ; Bradley Garvin (Photographer) ; David Piper (Pickpocket) ; Philip Creech, Gregory Mercer, Eduardo Valdes and Richard Vernon (Gondoliers) ; Kristine Jepson, Elizabeth Bishop (Venetians) ; Richard Vernon (Priest in St. Mark's) ; Theresa Cincione, Yvonne Gonzales, Heidi Skok, Elizabeth Anguish, Sandra Bush, Constance Green, Joyce Olson, Patricia Steiner, Glenn Alpert, David Asch, Ross Crolius, Joseph Pariso and Irwin Reese (Tourists) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Ballet and Chorus ; David Atherton, conductor ; Peter Allen, broadcast announcer.

Event (note)

1. Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Feb. 26, 1994.

Reproduction (note)

1. Cassette copy (3 sound cassettes : analog, stereo, Dolby-B processed) available in: *LTCM 739 (F)

Source (note)

1. Metropolitan Opera;

Language (note)

1. Sung in English.

Author

1. Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976.

Title

1. Death in Venice : radio broadcast, 1994-02-26 [sound recording] : opera in two acts / music by Benjamin Britten ; libretto by Myfanwy Piper after the novella by Thomas Mann.

Imprint

1. Feb. 26, 1994.

Playing time

1. 010325 023120

Series

1. Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of] Feb. 26, 1994
2. Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of] Feb. 26, 1994.

Performer

1. Anthony Rolfe Johnson (Gustav von Aschenbach) ; Thomas Allen (The Traveller, The Elderly Fop, The Old Gondolier, The Hotel Manager, The Barber, The Leader of the Players and The Voice of Dionysus) ; Jeffrey Gall (The Voice of Apollo) ; Karin von Aroldingen (The Lady of the Pearls) ; Jeffrey Edwards (Tadzio) ; Sarah Elizabeth Mendell and Katherine Skidmore Daines (Tadzio's sisters) ; Suzanne Laurence (Governess) ; Anton Pankevich (Jachiu) ; Richard Byrne, Philip Cokorinos, Paul Groves, Gregory Mercer, Christopher Schaldenbrand and Eduardo Valdes (Young men on the boat to Venice) ; Steven Combs (Ship's steward/Hotel waiter) ; Bernard Fitch (Hotel Porter) ; Richard Vernon (Lido Boatman) ; Clare Gormley (Stawberry seller) ; Yvonne Gonzales, Paul Groves (Street singers) ; Antoinette Peloso (Street dancer) ; Dean Dufford, Christopher Stocker (Beach attendants, Acrobats) ; Bradley Garvin (English clerk in the travel bureau) ; Kitt Reuter-Foss (French mother) ; Clare Gormley (Her daughter) ; Michelle De Young (German mother) ; Philip Cokorinos (German father) ; Seth Belliston (Their son) ; Michael Best, Tony Stevenson (Americans) ; Richard Byrne (Jachiu's father) ; Jonathan Pessolano, Buck Collins (Polish brothers) ; Emily Ann Pulley (Danish lady) ; Victoria Litherland (English lady) ; Nina Warren (Russian mother) ; John Fiorito (Russian father) ; Lauren Jean D'Avella, Didier Bramaz, Jeremy Conner and Daniel Koppel (Their children) ; Marianne Cornetti (Their nanny) ; Christopher Schaldenbrand (Guide in Venice).
2. Wendy Hoffman (Lace seller) ; Michael Forest (Glass maker) ; Ariel Bybee (Beggar woman) ; Stephen Hanna (Her son) ; Steven Combs (Restaurant waiter) ; Theresa Cincione (Newspaper seller) ; Loretta Di Franco (Flower seller) ; Howard Bender (Postcard seller) ; Bradley Garvin (Photographer) ; David Piper (Pickpocket) ; Philip Creech, Gregory Mercer, Eduardo Valdes and Richard Vernon (Gondoliers) ; Kristine Jepson, Elizabeth Bishop (Venetians) ; Richard Vernon (Priest in St. Mark's) ; Theresa Cincione, Yvonne Gonzales, Heidi Skok, Elizabeth Anguish, Sandra Bush, Constance Green, Joyce Olson, Patricia Steiner, Glenn Alpert, David Asch, Ross Crolius, Joseph Pariso and Irwin Reese (Tourists) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Ballet and Chorus ; David Atherton, conductor ; Peter Allen, broadcast announcer.

Indexed in:

1. Opera news, v. 58, no. 11 (Feb. 19, 1994).

Event

1. Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Feb. 26, 1994.

Original version

1. Preservation tape, recorded at NYPL in Mar. 1995, from borrowed masters (4 tape reels : analog, 7 1/2 ips, stereo ; 10 in.) lent by the Metropolitan Opera.

Reproduction

1. Cassette copy (3 sound cassettes : analog, stereo, Dolby-B processed) available in: *LTCM 739 (F)

Language

1. Sung in English.

Connect to:

1. Request Access to Music Division Audio and Moving Image material

Added author

1. Piper, Myfanwy. Librettist
2. Mann, Thomas, 1875-1955. Tod in Venedig.
3. Rolfe Johnson, Anthony. Performer
4. Allen, Thomas, 1944- Performer
5. Gall, Jeffrey. Performer
6. Aroldingen, Karin von, 1941-2018. Performer
7. Edwards, Jeffrey. Performer
8. Mendell, Sarah Elizabeth. Performer
9. Skidmore Daines, Katherine. Performer
10. Laurence, Suzanne. Performer
11. Pankevich, Anton. Performer
12. Byrne, Richard (Singer) Performer
13. Cokorinos, Philip. Performer
14. Groves, Paul (Tenor) Performer
15. Mercer, Gregory. Performer
16. Schaldenbrand, Christopher. Performer
17. Valdes, Eduardo (Tenor) Performer
18. Combs, Steven. Performer
19. Fitch, Bernard. Performer
20. Vernon, Richard, 1950- Performer
21. Gonzales, Yvonne. Performer
22. Peloso, Antoinette. Performer
23. Dufford, Dean. Performer
24. Stocker, Christopher. Performer
25. Garvin, Bradley. Performer
26. Reuter-Foss, Kitt. Performer
27. De Young, Michelle. Performer
28. Belliston, Seth. Performer
29. Best, Michael. Performer
30. Stevenson, Tony (Tenor) Performer
31. Pessolano, Jonathan. Performer
32. Collins, Buck. Performer
33. Gormley, Clare. Performer
34. Pulley, Emily Ann. Performer
35. Litherland, Victoria. Performer
36. Warren, Nina. Performer
37. Fiorito, John. Performer
38. D'Avella, Lauren Jean. Performer
39. Bramaz, Didier. Performer
40. Conner, Jeremy. Performer
41. Köppel, Johann Daniel. Performer
42. Cornetti, Marianne. Performer
43. Hoffman, Wendy (Mezzo-soprano) Performer
44. Forest, Michael. Performer
45. Bybee, Ariel. Performer
46. Hanna, Stephen. Performer
47. Cincione, Theresa. Performer
48. Di Franco, Loretta. Performer
49. Bender, Howard (Baritone) Performer
50. Piper, David (Singer) Performer
51. Creech, Philip. Performer
52. Jepson, Kristine. Performer
53. Bishop, Elizabeth (Mezzo-soprano) Performer
54. Skok, Heidi. Performer
55. Anguish, Elizabeth. Performer
56. Bush, Sandra. Performer
57. Green, Constance. Performer
58. Olson, Joyce. Performer
59. Steiner, Patricia. Performer
60. Alpert, Glenn. Performer
61. Asch, David (Singer) Performer
62. Crolius, Ross. Performer
63. Pariso, Joseph. Performer
64. Reese, Irwin. Performer
65. Atherton, David, 1944- Conductor
66. Allen, Peter, 1920- Commentator
67. Burton, Humphrey, 1931- Commentator
68. Graham, Colin, 1931- Commentator
69. Downes, Edward, 1911- Commentator
70. Eckert, Thor, Jr. Commentator
71. McNally, Terrence. Commentator
72. Purdy, Christopher. Commentator
73. Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.)

Added title

1. Texaco's opera quiz (Radio program)
2. Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (Radio program)

Research call number

1. *LDC 33913 Service copy.