- unitid
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{"value"=>"*L (Special) 89-31", "type"=>"local_call"}
{"value"=>"20498", "type"=>"local_mss"}
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"Let's go to the opera radio broadcast collection [sound recording]"}
- physdesc
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{"format"=>"simple", "value"=>"77 sound recordings"}
- repository
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{"value"=>"The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound."}
- abstract
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{"value"=>"<span class=\"title\">Let's Go to the Opera</span> was a 1946 radio series that featured Metropolitan Opera principals and other well known singers of the time in selections from popular operas and operettas. All selections are sung in English."}
- prefercite
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{"value"=>"<p>*L (Special) 89.31, Let's Go to the Opera Radio Broadcast Collection, Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.</p>"}
- origination
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{"value"=>"Let's Go to the Opera (Radio program)."}
- bioghist
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{"value"=>"<p><span class=\"title\">Let's Go to the Opera</span> was a 1946 radio series that featured Metropolitan Opera principals and other well known singers of the time in selections from popular operas and operettas. The weekly series was broadcast live on station WOR, the New York affiliate of the Mutual Broadcasting Company.</p>"}
- scopecontent
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{"value"=>"<p>The collection consists of excerpts of twenty-five consecutive programs, broadcast weekly from April 28, 1946 to September 13, 1946. The selections are sung in English and introduced with a brief explanation of the plot context.</p> <p><span class=\"persname\">Thomas Scherman</span> served as conductor for the entire series. Noteworthy singers include Natalie Bodanya, John Brownlee, Eugene Conley, Norman Cordon, Todd Duncan, Dorothy Kirsten, Charles Kullman, Brenda Lewis, Martha Lipton, Ann McKnight, Ray Middleton, Mona Paulee, Eleanor Steber, Lawrence Tibbett, Richard Tucker, and Claramae Turner.</p>"}
- userestrict
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{"value"=>"<p>For permission to publish, contact the Curator, The Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound.</p>"}
- acqinfo
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{"internal"=>true, "method"=>"Gift"}
- processinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Processed by Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound staff.</p>"}