Texaco: Metropolitan Opera Radio Broadcasts, 1960s

Year Published: 1960s

Creator: Texaco D'Arcy Masius Benton & Bowles (DMB&B)

Format: 16mm

Description: Transcription: (tenor singing opera - Vesti La Giubba) 0:01 Narrator It's Saturday afternoon all over America 0:04 and millions of people are sitting back 0:07 and enjoying something that's become 0:09 a very special part of their lives. 0:10 Grand opera. 0:12 Broadcast live 0:14 from the Metropolitan Opera House in New York, 0:15 home of America's only national opera company. 0:17 For 38 years, Texaco has been bringing this glorious music 0:21 performed by the world's great opera stars 0:24 to local radio stations 0:27 from Bath, Maine to Laramie, Wyoming. 0:28 (music swells) 0:31 (enthusiastic off-key opera singing) 0:34 (cows mooing) 0:39 (enthusiastic off-key opera singing) 0:41 (chuckling) 0:47 Narrator Texaco has been proud to broadcast 0:48 this magnificent music all over America 0:50 and bring delight to so many. 0:53 Texaco. 0:55 We've been helping the Met make beautiful music 0:56 for 38 years. 0:58

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