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Otello

Synopsis
Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York of Verdi’s Otello. Ramon Vinay sings the title role. The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus is conducted by Fritz Stiedry. 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 August 1985, from borrowed master 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
Algerd Brazis 
Eleanor Steber 
Leonard Warren 
Lubomir Vichegenov 
Martha Lipton 
Osie Hawkins 
Paul Franke 
Ramon Vinay 
Thomas Hayward 

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

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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