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Photo: Metropolitan Opera Archives
NBC Television Studio, Radio City, New York, March 10, 1940. The Metropolitan Opera on TV for the first time
performing an abridged version of Pagliacci. Photo shows Hilda Burke (Nedda), George Cehanovsky (Silvio),
and conductor Frank St. Leger.