Sign-Off for the Old Met by Paul Jackson (1997, Hardcover) 
Sign-Off for the Old Met by Paul Jackson (1997, Hardcover)

 
Sign-Off for the Old Met by Paul Jackson (1997, Hardcover)

Author: Paul Jackson
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corp
Publication Date: 1997-10-01
Language: English
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-10: 1574670301
ISBN-13: 9781574670301
Product ID: EPID184643
Description: A second volume in the author's exhaustive examination of weekly radio broadcasts by the Metropolitan Opera. In this volume, Jackson--a performer and historian--chronicles "Live at the Met" performances from 1950 to 1966, a period marked...
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Synopsis
A second volume in the author's exhaustive examination of weekly radio broadcasts by the Metropolitan Opera. In this volume, Jackson--a performer and historian--chronicles "Live at the Met" performances from 1950 to 1966, a period marked by the ascendency of such divas as Joan Sutherland and Birgit Nilsson.

Details
Publication Date:1997-10-01

Size
Length:644 pages
Height:11.0 in
Width:8.0 in
Thickness:2.0 in
Weight:67.2 oz

Publisher's Note
For more than sixty-five years, the weekly Saturday afternoon broadcasts from the Metropolitan Opera have brought performances from one of the world's great opera companies to millions of listeners. Covering the period from the beginning of the Rudolf Bing era to the destruction of the old Met in 1966, the new volume surveys two hundred broadcasts featuring luminaries inherited from the Johnson regime (Flagstad, Milanov, Albanese, Steber, Stevens, Bjorling, Di Stefano, Tucker, Warren) and Bing recruits (De Los Angeles, Della Casa, Tebaldi, Nilsson, Price, Sutherland, Crespin, Siepi, Bergonzi, Vickers, Corelli), under the leadership of such great conductors as Fritz Reiner, Dimitri Mitropoulos, and Georg Solti. As in Saturday Afternoons at the Old Met: The Metropolitan Opera Broadcasts, 1931-1950, the author uses unpublished documents and letters from the Metropolitan Opera Archives to tell behind-the-scenes stories of the players involved.

Industry Reviews
"...one of the best histories of singing ever published. Now that so many of these old broadcasts are finding their way on to CDs, either through the Met's own publishing efforts, or other series, his work will become the manual for listeners and researchers alike."
Literary Review - Patrick O'Connor (03/19/1998)

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