SHAKESPEARE

Otello

Synopsis: Live broadcast of Verdi’s Otello from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York. The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus is conducted by Fritz Stiedry. Mario Del Monaco is Otello and Leonard Warren is Iago. Milton Cross is the broadcast announcer.
Series: Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network
Language: Italian (Standard)
Country: United States
Medium: Radio
Transmission details: 12 Mar 1955 (Channel: ABC)
Duration: 228. (76 (synopses and intermission features); 152 (opera)

Credits

Additional Details

Theatre: Metropolitan Opera House, New York, NY
Theatre company: New York Metropolitan Opera and Chorus
Production type: Operas and Musicals
Plays: Othello
Subjects: Drama; Music
Keywords: Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)

Notes

Notes: Preservation tape recorded at NYPL in May 1990, from aluminium-based acetates lent by the Metropolitan Opera.

The opera may be streamed by US subscribers to Sirius Satellite Radio http://www.sirius.com/siriusinternetradio.
Reviews: Opera News, vol 19, no 18 (7 March 1955).

Production Company

Name: Metropolitan Opera, New York
Email: metropolitanopera@metopera.org
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Address: 30 Lincoln Center
New York, NY
10023
USA

Sponsor

Name: Texaco

Archive

Name: British Library Sound Archive
Email: listening@bl.uk
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Phone: 020 7412 7676
Fax: 020 7412 7441
Address: 96 Euston Road
London
NW1 2DB

Name: Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound
Email: rha@nypl.org
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Phone: (212) 870 1663
Address: New York Public Library of Recorded Sound
40 Lincoln Center Plaza
New York
NY 100123

How to cite this record

Shakespeare, "Otello". https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/shakespeare/search/index.php/title/av71496 (Accessed 19 Sep 2024)