Argento, The Voyage of Edgar Allan Poe, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Civic Opera House, opening night 27 October 1990, Christopher Keene. Off-air tape of the live broadcast. AFTER-THE-FACT SOURCE, which settles the date, the conductor and the principals: John von Rhein, "Lyric's 'Poe' is a grim but gripping voyage", Chicago Tribune, 29 October 1990, https://www.chicagotribune.com/1990/10/29/lyrics-poe-is-a-grim-but-gripping-voyage/ . It reports that the work "received its first production by a leading American company Saturday at the Civic Opera House" -- Saturday was 27 October 1990 -- and names Christopher Keene conducting, Donald Kaasch "coping heroically with the high tessitura of the title role", Richard Stilwell as "the suavely sinister Griswold", Ruth Ann Swenson as "Poe's Euridice-like child-bride" (Virginia) and John Duykers as the Doctor. Its credit block adds chorus direction by Philip Morehead and "Length of performance: 2:10", and lists the remaining nights of the run as Wednesday, Saturday, Nov 6, 9, 13, 16, 19 -- so 27 October was the first of eight. THE REST OF THE CAST comes from the note that travels with the tape, in the folder as "VOYAGE OF EDGAR ALLAN POE - Cast.rtf". It is not an in-house cast sheet: it was written by the collector who made the recording (the RTF's author field reads William Heron, Kensington MD) and it says so in its own words -- "Live broadcast recording of the opening night performance", "2 files + cuesheets", "At the end of CD2, I have appended an interview with the composer, the librettist and the conductor, which was originally played in the intermission, between the two acts." Its five principals all match the Tribune review, which is why the remaining six names are entered on its authority: Winifred Faix Brown (Mrs. Poe), Phyllis Pancella (Mrs. Clemm), Jane Shaulis (Mrs. Allan), Stephen West (Theater Director), Elizabeth Futral (Rosy) and Philip Zawisza (Willie, entered against the character findopera spells "Willy"). NOT ENTERED: the note also lists Crickett Leigh as "Virginia as a child". findopera has no character of that name for this opera and one has not been invented for her, so that role is recorded here rather than in the cast. Orchestra and chorus are named as Lyric Opera of Chicago's own; the Tribune preview of 21 October (https://www.chicagotribune.com/1990/10/21/fantastic-voyage-3/) describes the Chicago staging as the first to realise Argento's original scoring, "complete with large orchestra and a 60-voice chorus in the pit". Distinct from findopera 10091, the 2025 Odyssey Opera / Boston Modern Orchestra Project studio recording under Gil Rose, which is the only other recording of this opera here. Billing: Poe (Kaasch, the title role), Griswold (Stilwell), Virginia Poe (Swenson). Filed from the rip in /volume1/Opera/rips: two mp3s, 52:55 and 60:29, the second ending with the intermission interview.

Argento, The Voyage of Edgar Allan Poe, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Civic Opera House, opening night 27 October 1990, Christopher Keene. Off-air tape of the live broadcast. AFTER-THE-FACT SOURCE, which settles the date, the conductor and the principals: John von Rhein, "Lyric's 'Poe' is a grim but gripping voyage", Chicago Tribune, 29 October 1990, https://www.chicagotribune.com/1990/10/29/lyrics-poe-is-a-grim-but-gripping-voyage/ . It reports that the work "received its first production by a leading American company Saturday at the Civic Opera House" -- Saturday was 27 October 1990 -- and names Christopher Keene conducting, Donald Kaasch "coping heroically with the high tessitura of the title role", Richard Stilwell as "the suavely sinister Griswold", Ruth Ann Swenson as "Poe's Euridice-like child-bride" (Virginia) and John Duykers as the Doctor. Its credit block adds chorus direction by Philip Morehead and "Length of performance: 2:10", and lists the remaining nights of the run as Wednesday, Saturday, Nov 6, 9, 13, 16, 19 -- so 27 October was the first of eight. THE REST OF THE CAST comes from the note that travels with the tape, in the folder as "VOYAGE OF EDGAR ALLAN POE - Cast.rtf". It is not an in-house cast sheet: it was written by the collector who made the recording (the RTF's author field reads William Heron, Kensington MD) and it says so in its own words -- "Live broadcast recording of the opening night performance", "2 files + cuesheets", "At the end of CD2, I have appended an interview with the composer, the librettist and the conductor, which was originally played in the intermission, between the two acts." Its five principals all match the Tribune review, which is why the remaining six names are entered on its authority: Winifred Faix Brown (Mrs. Poe), Phyllis Pancella (Mrs. Clemm), Jane Shaulis (Mrs. Allan), Stephen West (Theater Director), Elizabeth Futral (Rosy) and Philip Zawisza (Willie, entered against the character findopera spells "Willy"). NOT ENTERED: the note also lists Crickett Leigh as "Virginia as a child". findopera has no character of that name for this opera and one has not been invented for her, so that role is recorded here rather than in the cast. Orchestra and chorus are named as Lyric Opera of Chicago's own; the Tribune preview of 21 October (https://www.chicagotribune.com/1990/10/21/fantastic-voyage-3/) describes the Chicago staging as the first to realise Argento's original scoring, "complete with large orchestra and a 60-voice chorus in the pit". Distinct from findopera 10091, the 2025 Odyssey Opera / Boston Modern Orchestra Project studio recording under Gil Rose, which is the only other recording of this opera here. Billing: Poe (Kaasch, the title role), Griswold (Stilwell), Virginia Poe (Swenson). Filed from the rip in /volume1/Opera/rips: two mp3s, 52:55 and 60:29, the second ending with the intermission interview.

Argento, The Voyage of Edgar Allan Poe, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Civic Opera House, opening night 27 October 1990, Christopher Keene. Off-air tape of the live broadcast. AFTER-THE-FACT SOURCE, which settles the date, the conductor and the principals: John von Rhein, "Lyric's 'Poe' is a grim but gripping voyage", Chicago Tribune, 29 October 1990, https://www.chicagotribune.com/1990/10/29/lyrics-poe-is-a-grim-but-gripping-voyage/ . It reports that the work "received its first production by a leading American company Saturday at the Civic Opera House" -- Saturday was 27 October 1990 -- and names Christopher Keene conducting, Donald Kaasch "coping heroically with the high tessitura of the title role", Richard Stilwell as "the suavely sinister Griswold", Ruth Ann Swenson as "Poe's Euridice-like child-bride" (Virginia) and John Duykers as the Doctor. Its credit block adds chorus direction by Philip Morehead and "Length of performance: 2:10", and lists the remaining nights of the run as Wednesday, Saturday, Nov 6, 9, 13, 16, 19 -- so 27 October was the first of eight. THE REST OF THE CAST comes from the note that travels with the tape, in the folder as "VOYAGE OF EDGAR ALLAN POE - Cast.rtf". It is not an in-house cast sheet: it was written by the collector who made the recording (the RTF's author field reads William Heron, Kensington MD) and it says so in its own words -- "Live broadcast recording of the opening night performance", "2 files + cuesheets", "At the end of CD2, I have appended an interview with the composer, the librettist and the conductor, which was originally played in the intermission, between the two acts." Its five principals all match the Tribune review, which is why the remaining six names are entered on its authority: Winifred Faix Brown (Mrs. Poe), Phyllis Pancella (Mrs. Clemm), Jane Shaulis (Mrs. Allan), Stephen West (Theater Director), Elizabeth Futral (Rosy) and Philip Zawisza (Willie, entered against the character findopera spells "Willy"). NOT ENTERED: the note also lists Crickett Leigh as "Virginia as a child". findopera has no character of that name for this opera and one has not been invented for her, so that role is recorded here rather than in the cast. Orchestra and chorus are named as Lyric Opera of Chicago's own; the Tribune preview of 21 October (https://www.chicagotribune.com/1990/10/21/fantastic-voyage-3/) describes the Chicago staging as the first to realise Argento's original scoring, "complete with large orchestra and a 60-voice chorus in the pit". Distinct from findopera 10091, the 2025 Odyssey Opera / Boston Modern Orchestra Project studio recording under Gil Rose, which is the only other recording of this opera here. Billing: Poe (Kaasch, the title role), Griswold (Stilwell), Virginia Poe (Swenson). Filed from the rip in /volume1/Opera/rips: two mp3s, 52:55 and 60:29, the second ending with the intermission interview.

Argento, The Voyage of Edgar Allan Poe, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Civic Opera House, opening night 27 October 1990, Christopher Keene. Off-air tape of the live broadcast. AFTER-THE-FACT SOURCE, which settles the date, the conductor and the principals: John von Rhein, "Lyric's 'Poe' is a grim but gripping voyage", Chicago Tribune, 29 October 1990, https://www.chicagotribune.com/1990/10/29/lyrics-poe-is-a-grim-but-gripping-voyage/ . It reports that the work "received its first production by a leading American company Saturday at the Civic Opera House" -- Saturday was 27 October 1990 -- and names Christopher Keene conducting, Donald Kaasch "coping heroically with the high tessitura of the title role", Richard Stilwell as "the suavely sinister Griswold", Ruth Ann Swenson as "Poe's Euridice-like child-bride" (Virginia) and John Duykers as the Doctor. Its credit block adds chorus direction by Philip Morehead and "Length of performance: 2:10", and lists the remaining nights of the run as Wednesday, Saturday, Nov 6, 9, 13, 16, 19 -- so 27 October was the first of eight. THE REST OF THE CAST comes from the note that travels with the tape, in the folder as "VOYAGE OF EDGAR ALLAN POE - Cast.rtf". It is not an in-house cast sheet: it was written by the collector who made the recording (the RTF's author field reads William Heron, Kensington MD) and it says so in its own words -- "Live broadcast recording of the opening night performance", "2 files + cuesheets", "At the end of CD2, I have appended an interview with the composer, the librettist and the conductor, which was originally played in the intermission, between the two acts." Its five principals all match the Tribune review, which is why the remaining six names are entered on its authority: Winifred Faix Brown (Mrs. Poe), Phyllis Pancella (Mrs. Clemm), Jane Shaulis (Mrs. Allan), Stephen West (Theater Director), Elizabeth Futral (Rosy) and Philip Zawisza (Willie, entered against the character findopera spells "Willy"). NOT ENTERED: the note also lists Crickett Leigh as "Virginia as a child". findopera has no character of that name for this opera and one has not been invented for her, so that role is recorded here rather than in the cast. Orchestra and chorus are named as Lyric Opera of Chicago's own; the Tribune preview of 21 October (https://www.chicagotribune.com/1990/10/21/fantastic-voyage-3/) describes the Chicago staging as the first to realise Argento's original scoring, "complete with large orchestra and a 60-voice chorus in the pit". Distinct from findopera 10091, the 2025 Odyssey Opera / Boston Modern Orchestra Project studio recording under Gil Rose, which is the only other recording of this opera here. Billing: Poe (Kaasch, the title role), Griswold (Stilwell), Virginia Poe (Swenson). Filed from the rip in /volume1/Opera/rips: two mp3s, 52:55 and 60:29, the second ending with the intermission interview.

Argento, The Voyage of Edgar Allan Poe, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Civic Opera House, opening night 27 October 1990, Christopher Keene. Off-air tape of the live broadcast. AFTER-THE-FACT SOURCE, which settles the date, the conductor and the principals: John von Rhein, "Lyric's 'Poe' is a grim but gripping voyage", Chicago Tribune, 29 October 1990, https://www.chicagotribune.com/1990/10/29/lyrics-poe-is-a-grim-but-gripping-voyage/ . It reports that the work "received its first production by a leading American company Saturday at the Civic Opera House" -- Saturday was 27 October 1990 -- and names Christopher Keene conducting, Donald Kaasch "coping heroically with the high tessitura of the title role", Richard Stilwell as "the suavely sinister Griswold", Ruth Ann Swenson as "Poe's Euridice-like child-bride" (Virginia) and John Duykers as the Doctor. Its credit block adds chorus direction by Philip Morehead and "Length of performance: 2:10", and lists the remaining nights of the run as Wednesday, Saturday, Nov 6, 9, 13, 16, 19 -- so 27 October was the first of eight. THE REST OF THE CAST comes from the note that travels with the tape, in the folder as "VOYAGE OF EDGAR ALLAN POE - Cast.rtf". It is not an in-house cast sheet: it was written by the collector who made the recording (the RTF's author field reads William Heron, Kensington MD) and it says so in its own words -- "Live broadcast recording of the opening night performance", "2 files + cuesheets", "At the end of CD2, I have appended an interview with the composer, the librettist and the conductor, which was originally played in the intermission, between the two acts." Its five principals all match the Tribune review, which is why the remaining six names are entered on its authority: Winifred Faix Brown (Mrs. Poe), Phyllis Pancella (Mrs. Clemm), Jane Shaulis (Mrs. Allan), Stephen West (Theater Director), Elizabeth Futral (Rosy) and Philip Zawisza (Willie, entered against the character findopera spells "Willy"). NOT ENTERED: the note also lists Crickett Leigh as "Virginia as a child". findopera has no character of that name for this opera and one has not been invented for her, so that role is recorded here rather than in the cast. Orchestra and chorus are named as Lyric Opera of Chicago's own; the Tribune preview of 21 October (https://www.chicagotribune.com/1990/10/21/fantastic-voyage-3/) describes the Chicago staging as the first to realise Argento's original scoring, "complete with large orchestra and a 60-voice chorus in the pit". Distinct from findopera 10091, the 2025 Odyssey Opera / Boston Modern Orchestra Project studio recording under Gil Rose, which is the only other recording of this opera here. Billing: Poe (Kaasch, the title role), Griswold (Stilwell), Virginia Poe (Swenson). Filed from the rip in /volume1/Opera/rips: two mp3s, 52:55 and 60:29, the second ending with the intermission interview.

Argento, The Voyage of Edgar Allan Poe, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Civic Opera House, opening night 27 October 1990, Christopher Keene. Off-air tape of the live broadcast. AFTER-THE-FACT SOURCE, which settles the date, the conductor and the principals: John von Rhein, "Lyric's 'Poe' is a grim but gripping voyage", Chicago Tribune, 29 October 1990, https://www.chicagotribune.com/1990/10/29/lyrics-poe-is-a-grim-but-gripping-voyage/ . It reports that the work "received its first production by a leading American company Saturday at the Civic Opera House" -- Saturday was 27 October 1990 -- and names Christopher Keene conducting, Donald Kaasch "coping heroically with the high tessitura of the title role", Richard Stilwell as "the suavely sinister Griswold", Ruth Ann Swenson as "Poe's Euridice-like child-bride" (Virginia) and John Duykers as the Doctor. Its credit block adds chorus direction by Philip Morehead and "Length of performance: 2:10", and lists the remaining nights of the run as Wednesday, Saturday, Nov 6, 9, 13, 16, 19 -- so 27 October was the first of eight. THE REST OF THE CAST comes from the note that travels with the tape, in the folder as "VOYAGE OF EDGAR ALLAN POE - Cast.rtf". It is not an in-house cast sheet: it was written by the collector who made the recording (the RTF's author field reads William Heron, Kensington MD) and it says so in its own words -- "Live broadcast recording of the opening night performance", "2 files + cuesheets", "At the end of CD2, I have appended an interview with the composer, the librettist and the conductor, which was originally played in the intermission, between the two acts." Its five principals all match the Tribune review, which is why the remaining six names are entered on its authority: Winifred Faix Brown (Mrs. Poe), Phyllis Pancella (Mrs. Clemm), Jane Shaulis (Mrs. Allan), Stephen West (Theater Director), Elizabeth Futral (Rosy) and Philip Zawisza (Willie, entered against the character findopera spells "Willy"). NOT ENTERED: the note also lists Crickett Leigh as "Virginia as a child". findopera has no character of that name for this opera and one has not been invented for her, so that role is recorded here rather than in the cast. Orchestra and chorus are named as Lyric Opera of Chicago's own; the Tribune preview of 21 October (https://www.chicagotribune.com/1990/10/21/fantastic-voyage-3/) describes the Chicago staging as the first to realise Argento's original scoring, "complete with large orchestra and a 60-voice chorus in the pit". Distinct from findopera 10091, the 2025 Odyssey Opera / Boston Modern Orchestra Project studio recording under Gil Rose, which is the only other recording of this opera here. Billing: Poe (Kaasch, the title role), Griswold (Stilwell), Virginia Poe (Swenson). Filed from the rip in /volume1/Opera/rips: two mp3s, 52:55 and 60:29, the second ending with the intermission interview.

Argento, The Voyage of Edgar Allan Poe, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Civic Opera House, opening night 27 October 1990, Christopher Keene. Off-air tape of the live broadcast. AFTER-THE-FACT SOURCE, which settles the date, the conductor and the principals: John von Rhein, "Lyric's 'Poe' is a grim but gripping voyage", Chicago Tribune, 29 October 1990, https://www.chicagotribune.com/1990/10/29/lyrics-poe-is-a-grim-but-gripping-voyage/ . It reports that the work "received its first production by a leading American company Saturday at the Civic Opera House" -- Saturday was 27 October 1990 -- and names Christopher Keene conducting, Donald Kaasch "coping heroically with the high tessitura of the title role", Richard Stilwell as "the suavely sinister Griswold", Ruth Ann Swenson as "Poe's Euridice-like child-bride" (Virginia) and John Duykers as the Doctor. Its credit block adds chorus direction by Philip Morehead and "Length of performance: 2:10", and lists the remaining nights of the run as Wednesday, Saturday, Nov 6, 9, 13, 16, 19 -- so 27 October was the first of eight. THE REST OF THE CAST comes from the note that travels with the tape, in the folder as "VOYAGE OF EDGAR ALLAN POE - Cast.rtf". It is not an in-house cast sheet: it was written by the collector who made the recording (the RTF's author field reads William Heron, Kensington MD) and it says so in its own words -- "Live broadcast recording of the opening night performance", "2 files + cuesheets", "At the end of CD2, I have appended an interview with the composer, the librettist and the conductor, which was originally played in the intermission, between the two acts." Its five principals all match the Tribune review, which is why the remaining six names are entered on its authority: Winifred Faix Brown (Mrs. Poe), Phyllis Pancella (Mrs. Clemm), Jane Shaulis (Mrs. Allan), Stephen West (Theater Director), Elizabeth Futral (Rosy) and Philip Zawisza (Willie, entered against the character findopera spells "Willy"). NOT ENTERED: the note also lists Crickett Leigh as "Virginia as a child". findopera has no character of that name for this opera and one has not been invented for her, so that role is recorded here rather than in the cast. Orchestra and chorus are named as Lyric Opera of Chicago's own; the Tribune preview of 21 October (https://www.chicagotribune.com/1990/10/21/fantastic-voyage-3/) describes the Chicago staging as the first to realise Argento's original scoring, "complete with large orchestra and a 60-voice chorus in the pit". Distinct from findopera 10091, the 2025 Odyssey Opera / Boston Modern Orchestra Project studio recording under Gil Rose, which is the only other recording of this opera here. Billing: Poe (Kaasch, the title role), Griswold (Stilwell), Virginia Poe (Swenson). Filed from the rip in /volume1/Opera/rips: two mp3s, 52:55 and 60:29, the second ending with the intermission interview.

Argento, The Voyage of Edgar Allan Poe, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Civic Opera House, opening night 27 October 1990, Christopher Keene. Off-air tape of the live broadcast. AFTER-THE-FACT SOURCE, which settles the date, the conductor and the principals: John von Rhein, "Lyric's 'Poe' is a grim but gripping voyage", Chicago Tribune, 29 October 1990, https://www.chicagotribune.com/1990/10/29/lyrics-poe-is-a-grim-but-gripping-voyage/ . It reports that the work "received its first production by a leading American company Saturday at the Civic Opera House" -- Saturday was 27 October 1990 -- and names Christopher Keene conducting, Donald Kaasch "coping heroically with the high tessitura of the title role", Richard Stilwell as "the suavely sinister Griswold", Ruth Ann Swenson as "Poe's Euridice-like child-bride" (Virginia) and John Duykers as the Doctor. Its credit block adds chorus direction by Philip Morehead and "Length of performance: 2:10", and lists the remaining nights of the run as Wednesday, Saturday, Nov 6, 9, 13, 16, 19 -- so 27 October was the first of eight. THE REST OF THE CAST comes from the note that travels with the tape, in the folder as "VOYAGE OF EDGAR ALLAN POE - Cast.rtf". It is not an in-house cast sheet: it was written by the collector who made the recording (the RTF's author field reads William Heron, Kensington MD) and it says so in its own words -- "Live broadcast recording of the opening night performance", "2 files + cuesheets", "At the end of CD2, I have appended an interview with the composer, the librettist and the conductor, which was originally played in the intermission, between the two acts." Its five principals all match the Tribune review, which is why the remaining six names are entered on its authority: Winifred Faix Brown (Mrs. Poe), Phyllis Pancella (Mrs. Clemm), Jane Shaulis (Mrs. Allan), Stephen West (Theater Director), Elizabeth Futral (Rosy) and Philip Zawisza (Willie, entered against the character findopera spells "Willy"). NOT ENTERED: the note also lists Crickett Leigh as "Virginia as a child". findopera has no character of that name for this opera and one has not been invented for her, so that role is recorded here rather than in the cast. Orchestra and chorus are named as Lyric Opera of Chicago's own; the Tribune preview of 21 October (https://www.chicagotribune.com/1990/10/21/fantastic-voyage-3/) describes the Chicago staging as the first to realise Argento's original scoring, "complete with large orchestra and a 60-voice chorus in the pit". Distinct from findopera 10091, the 2025 Odyssey Opera / Boston Modern Orchestra Project studio recording under Gil Rose, which is the only other recording of this opera here. Billing: Poe (Kaasch, the title role), Griswold (Stilwell), Virginia Poe (Swenson). Filed from the rip in /volume1/Opera/rips: two mp3s, 52:55 and 60:29, the second ending with the intermission interview.

Argento, The Voyage of Edgar Allan Poe, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Civic Opera House, opening night 27 October 1990, Christopher Keene. Off-air tape of the live broadcast. AFTER-THE-FACT SOURCE, which settles the date, the conductor and the principals: John von Rhein, "Lyric's 'Poe' is a grim but gripping voyage", Chicago Tribune, 29 October 1990, https://www.chicagotribune.com/1990/10/29/lyrics-poe-is-a-grim-but-gripping-voyage/ . It reports that the work "received its first production by a leading American company Saturday at the Civic Opera House" -- Saturday was 27 October 1990 -- and names Christopher Keene conducting, Donald Kaasch "coping heroically with the high tessitura of the title role", Richard Stilwell as "the suavely sinister Griswold", Ruth Ann Swenson as "Poe's Euridice-like child-bride" (Virginia) and John Duykers as the Doctor. Its credit block adds chorus direction by Philip Morehead and "Length of performance: 2:10", and lists the remaining nights of the run as Wednesday, Saturday, Nov 6, 9, 13, 16, 19 -- so 27 October was the first of eight. THE REST OF THE CAST comes from the note that travels with the tape, in the folder as "VOYAGE OF EDGAR ALLAN POE - Cast.rtf". It is not an in-house cast sheet: it was written by the collector who made the recording (the RTF's author field reads William Heron, Kensington MD) and it says so in its own words -- "Live broadcast recording of the opening night performance", "2 files + cuesheets", "At the end of CD2, I have appended an interview with the composer, the librettist and the conductor, which was originally played in the intermission, between the two acts." Its five principals all match the Tribune review, which is why the remaining six names are entered on its authority: Winifred Faix Brown (Mrs. Poe), Phyllis Pancella (Mrs. Clemm), Jane Shaulis (Mrs. Allan), Stephen West (Theater Director), Elizabeth Futral (Rosy) and Philip Zawisza (Willie, entered against the character findopera spells "Willy"). NOT ENTERED: the note also lists Crickett Leigh as "Virginia as a child". findopera has no character of that name for this opera and one has not been invented for her, so that role is recorded here rather than in the cast. Orchestra and chorus are named as Lyric Opera of Chicago's own; the Tribune preview of 21 October (https://www.chicagotribune.com/1990/10/21/fantastic-voyage-3/) describes the Chicago staging as the first to realise Argento's original scoring, "complete with large orchestra and a 60-voice chorus in the pit". Distinct from findopera 10091, the 2025 Odyssey Opera / Boston Modern Orchestra Project studio recording under Gil Rose, which is the only other recording of this opera here. Billing: Poe (Kaasch, the title role), Griswold (Stilwell), Virginia Poe (Swenson). Filed from the rip in /volume1/Opera/rips: two mp3s, 52:55 and 60:29, the second ending with the intermission interview.

Argento, The Voyage of Edgar Allan Poe, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Civic Opera House, opening night 27 October 1990, Christopher Keene. Off-air tape of the live broadcast. AFTER-THE-FACT SOURCE, which settles the date, the conductor and the principals: John von Rhein, "Lyric's 'Poe' is a grim but gripping voyage", Chicago Tribune, 29 October 1990, https://www.chicagotribune.com/1990/10/29/lyrics-poe-is-a-grim-but-gripping-voyage/ . It reports that the work "received its first production by a leading American company Saturday at the Civic Opera House" -- Saturday was 27 October 1990 -- and names Christopher Keene conducting, Donald Kaasch "coping heroically with the high tessitura of the title role", Richard Stilwell as "the suavely sinister Griswold", Ruth Ann Swenson as "Poe's Euridice-like child-bride" (Virginia) and John Duykers as the Doctor. Its credit block adds chorus direction by Philip Morehead and "Length of performance: 2:10", and lists the remaining nights of the run as Wednesday, Saturday, Nov 6, 9, 13, 16, 19 -- so 27 October was the first of eight. THE REST OF THE CAST comes from the note that travels with the tape, in the folder as "VOYAGE OF EDGAR ALLAN POE - Cast.rtf". It is not an in-house cast sheet: it was written by the collector who made the recording (the RTF's author field reads William Heron, Kensington MD) and it says so in its own words -- "Live broadcast recording of the opening night performance", "2 files + cuesheets", "At the end of CD2, I have appended an interview with the composer, the librettist and the conductor, which was originally played in the intermission, between the two acts." Its five principals all match the Tribune review, which is why the remaining six names are entered on its authority: Winifred Faix Brown (Mrs. Poe), Phyllis Pancella (Mrs. Clemm), Jane Shaulis (Mrs. Allan), Stephen West (Theater Director), Elizabeth Futral (Rosy) and Philip Zawisza (Willie, entered against the character findopera spells "Willy"). NOT ENTERED: the note also lists Crickett Leigh as "Virginia as a child". findopera has no character of that name for this opera and one has not been invented for her, so that role is recorded here rather than in the cast. Orchestra and chorus are named as Lyric Opera of Chicago's own; the Tribune preview of 21 October (https://www.chicagotribune.com/1990/10/21/fantastic-voyage-3/) describes the Chicago staging as the first to realise Argento's original scoring, "complete with large orchestra and a 60-voice chorus in the pit". Distinct from findopera 10091, the 2025 Odyssey Opera / Boston Modern Orchestra Project studio recording under Gil Rose, which is the only other recording of this opera here. Billing: Poe (Kaasch, the title role), Griswold (Stilwell), Virginia Poe (Swenson). Filed from the rip in /volume1/Opera/rips: two mp3s, 52:55 and 60:29, the second ending with the intermission interview.

Argento, The Voyage of Edgar Allan Poe, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Civic Opera House, opening night 27 October 1990, Christopher Keene. Off-air tape of the live broadcast. AFTER-THE-FACT SOURCE, which settles the date, the conductor and the principals: John von Rhein, "Lyric's 'Poe' is a grim but gripping voyage", Chicago Tribune, 29 October 1990, https://www.chicagotribune.com/1990/10/29/lyrics-poe-is-a-grim-but-gripping-voyage/ . It reports that the work "received its first production by a leading American company Saturday at the Civic Opera House" -- Saturday was 27 October 1990 -- and names Christopher Keene conducting, Donald Kaasch "coping heroically with the high tessitura of the title role", Richard Stilwell as "the suavely sinister Griswold", Ruth Ann Swenson as "Poe's Euridice-like child-bride" (Virginia) and John Duykers as the Doctor. Its credit block adds chorus direction by Philip Morehead and "Length of performance: 2:10", and lists the remaining nights of the run as Wednesday, Saturday, Nov 6, 9, 13, 16, 19 -- so 27 October was the first of eight. THE REST OF THE CAST comes from the note that travels with the tape, in the folder as "VOYAGE OF EDGAR ALLAN POE - Cast.rtf". It is not an in-house cast sheet: it was written by the collector who made the recording (the RTF's author field reads William Heron, Kensington MD) and it says so in its own words -- "Live broadcast recording of the opening night performance", "2 files + cuesheets", "At the end of CD2, I have appended an interview with the composer, the librettist and the conductor, which was originally played in the intermission, between the two acts." Its five principals all match the Tribune review, which is why the remaining six names are entered on its authority: Winifred Faix Brown (Mrs. Poe), Phyllis Pancella (Mrs. Clemm), Jane Shaulis (Mrs. Allan), Stephen West (Theater Director), Elizabeth Futral (Rosy) and Philip Zawisza (Willie, entered against the character findopera spells "Willy"). NOT ENTERED: the note also lists Crickett Leigh as "Virginia as a child". findopera has no character of that name for this opera and one has not been invented for her, so that role is recorded here rather than in the cast. Orchestra and chorus are named as Lyric Opera of Chicago's own; the Tribune preview of 21 October (https://www.chicagotribune.com/1990/10/21/fantastic-voyage-3/) describes the Chicago staging as the first to realise Argento's original scoring, "complete with large orchestra and a 60-voice chorus in the pit". Distinct from findopera 10091, the 2025 Odyssey Opera / Boston Modern Orchestra Project studio recording under Gil Rose, which is the only other recording of this opera here. Billing: Poe (Kaasch, the title role), Griswold (Stilwell), Virginia Poe (Swenson). Filed from the rip in /volume1/Opera/rips: two mp3s, 52:55 and 60:29, the second ending with the intermission interview.