Texaco Metropolitan Opera
Monaural broadcasts on Texaco Metropolitan
Opera Radio Network
Announced by Milton Cross, official commentator
for the Met 1935 - 1974. Originally performances were at the old
Metropoliltan Opera House which was alive with audience reaction.
First public performance from Avery Fischer Hall, Lincoln Center
was September 16, 1966. Live performance operas typically run
3 to 4 hours because of the time required to make scene changes
between acts. Peter Allen served as Metropolitan Opera announcer
until retirement in 2004, when Margaret Juntwait of WNYC-FM will
take over the Saturday afternoon broadcasts.
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- MP3PD4-101 La Boheme (Puccini)
Season 22 (1961-62) show 7. Martin Rich/Conductor WGFM-WGY
- MP3PD4-102 Die Walkure (Wagner)
Season 22 (1961-1962) show 3. Eric Leinsdorf/Conductor WGFM-WGY
- MP3PD4-103 Andre Chenier (Giordano)
Season 22 (March 1962). Faustave Claiborne/Conductor WGFM-WGY
- Reference made to NYC newspaper strike.
- MP3PD4-104 Marriage of Figaro (Mozart)
Season 25 (December 1964) show 5. Joseph Rosenstalk/Conductor
WGFM-WGY
- Ends with advertisement for General Electric
hiring of apprentices, newscast.
- MP3PD4-105 Il Travadore (Verdi)
Season 25 (1965) Richard Tucker 20th Year, Robert Merril, Lyotene
Price,
- Thomas Shippers/Conductor WGFM-WGY
- MP3PD4-106 Alcestis (Gluck) Season
25 (1965) Kurt Addler/Conductor WGY
- MP3PD4-107 Simon Boccanegra (Verdi)
Season 25 (1965) Richard Tucker, Renalda Tibaldi, Nino Verdi/Conductor
WGY
WGFM-WGY 810 AM, Schennectedy NY owned by
General Electric (in the early days of FM, simulcast with a co-owned
AM station was common, and classical/good music stations were
usually on the AM band)
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