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Double LP
RCA VictorRL 02094
1977
UK
Barber - Vanessa (Box Set, Samuel Barber , Gian Carlo Menotti , Eleanor Steber , Nicolai Gedda , Rosalind Elias , Giorgio Tozz)

Box Set

Samuel Barber , Gian Carlo Menotti , Eleanor Steber , Nicolai Gedda , Rosalind Elias , Giorgio Tozz - Barber - Vanessa

Barber - Vanessa (Box Set, Samuel Barber , Gian Carlo Menotti , Eleanor Steber , Nicolai Gedda , Rosalind Elias , Giorgio Tozz)

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(Stereo) 'Complete recording of original four-act version of opera, first performed at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York, January 15, 1958.

Front of box shows detail from 'L'Élégante', by Édouard Vuillard (1868-1940), and blurb at top right from The American Record Guide: 'Eleanor Steber ... is quite triumphant ... The conducting by Dimitri Mitropoulos brings out all the virtuosic orchestral comment on dramatic situations ... The recorded sound is excellent throughout.'

Back of box carries photograph of composer and notes by Francis Robinson, with price code (2XHH) at top right. A post-production white sticker repeats the price code, adding 'Specially imported by RCA RECORDS LTD. Under license from and on payment of royalty to the British copyright owners concerned.' Copyright date © 1977/58 at foot.

Label gives composer's year of birth (1910), and phonographic copyright as ℗ 77.

12-page libretto © 1957, G. Schirmer Inc.'[discogs]

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