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
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.
Subjects
Drama; Music
Keywords
Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)

Credits

Writer
Arrigo Boito
Music
Giuseppe Verdi
Cast
Arthur Budney 
James McCracken 
Leonard Warren 
Luben Vichey 
Mario Del Monaco 
Martha Lipton 
Osie Hawkins 
Paul Franke 
Renata Tebaldi 

Production Company

Name

Metropolitan Opera, New York

Email
metropolitanopera@metopera.org
Web
https://www.metopera.org/ External site opens in new window
Address
30 Lincoln Center
New York, NY
10023
USA

Sponsor

Name

Texaco

Archive

Name

British Library Sound Archive

Email
listening@bl.uk
Web
http://www.bl.uk/nsa External site opens in new window
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
Web
http://www.nypl.org/research/lpa/rha/rha.html External site opens in new window
Phone
(212) 870 1663
Address
New York Public Library of Recorded Sound
40 Lincoln Center Plaza
New York
NY 100123
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