Collection search - Don Giovanni (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart), performed at the Stratford Festival

2008-00143-1

Sound

4 of 4

1966-07-08/1966-08-23

1966-08-23 ?

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

composer, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; English translator of libretto, Edward Dent; opera director, Jean Gascon; recording supervisor, James Kent

conductor, Mario Bernardi; Don Giovanni, Cornelis Opthof; Leporello, Jan Rubes; Il Commendatore, Howell Glynne; Donna Anna, Sylvia Saurette; Zerlina, Gwenlynn Little; Donna Elvira, Sylvia Grant; Masetto, Maurice Brown; Don Ottavio, [Jerold Siena ?]

Sound recording (copy) of the edition of the radio programme CBC Tuesday Night that included the recently recorded performance of the opera Don Giovanni (composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart), sung in English, at the Avon Theatre, Stratford, Ontario, as part of the Stratford Music Festival. The recording was dubbed off-air from CBL AM radio, Toronto. Includes an introduction and commentary from CBC announcers, including a discussion of the opera, its plot, and its context among other operatic works. The broadcast is interrupted during the first act (on reel 2) for an address by Prime Minister Lester Pearson, although the address is not included on that reel. Reel 3 ends with a fragment of an address by Pearson concerning the call for an imminent national railway strike. The broadcast of the opera is followed by a performance of Mozart's Divertimento in D Major. <2h 58mn>

English