The Jumping Frog of Calaveras County

By
Mark Twain
The NYPR Archive Collections | Jan 1, 2000

Recorded for the WNYC American Music Festival, this performance of the opera "The Jumping Frog of Calaveras County," with music by Lukas Foss and libretto by Jean Karsavina, was adapted from a short story by Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain).

Narrator: Max Levitt

Cast:
George Irving
Arline Carmen
William Hess
Robert Fulton
Leon Lischner
Pete Davis

Musical Director: Arthur Franz
Producer: Roger Englander


Audio courtesy of the NYC Municipal Archives WNYC Collection


WNYC archives id: 150153
Municipal archives id: LT4479

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