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Parsifal opera in three acts

Title: Parsifal [sound recording] : opera in three acts / Richard Wagner.
Author: Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883

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Description

4 sound cassettes (295 min.) : mono., Dolby-B processed.

Series Statement

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of \Mar. 24, 1956\560324\]

Uniform Title

Parsifal
Opera news on the air (Radio program)
Texaco's opera quiz (Radio program)
Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (Radio program)

Alternative Title

Parsifal

Subject

Note

Sung in German.
Title from house program ; series title from Opera news.
Durations: 3:59:19 (opera) ; 0:55:49 (synopses and features).
Production notes and official cast list (6 p.) on file in the Rodgers and Hammerstein listening room.

Indexed In (note)

Opera news

Event (note)

Originally recorded in the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Mar. 24, 1956.

Contents

side 1. Introduction and synopsis of act 1 (Milton Cross) ; Opera news on the air: Boris Goldovsky, Rose Bampton and Anthony Quayle discuss Parsifal ; Synopsis of act 2 (Cross) -- side 2. Texaco's opera quiz: Robert Lawrence, Robert Bagar, Sigmund Spaeth, Max de Schauensee and Max Rudolf ; Synopsis of act 3 (Cross) -- side 3. Act 1 to Wer schoss den Schwan? -- side 4. Act 1, continued to Nehmet hin mein Blut -- side 5. Act 1, conclusion ; Act 2 to wo ich viel ersah -- side 6. Act 2, conclusion -- side 7. Act 3 to Mittag: die Stund' ist da. -- side 8. Act 3, conclusion ; Closing remarks (Cross).

Call Number

*LTCM 64 (F)

OCLC

NYPG84-R824

Author

Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883.

Title

Parsifal [sound recording] : opera in three acts / Richard Wagner.

Playing Time

035919 005549

Series

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of \Mar. 24, 1956\560324\]

Performer

Set Svanholm (Parsifal) ; Margaret Harshaw (Kundry ; Nicola Moscona (Titurel) ; Gerhard Pechner (Klingsor) ; Otto Edelman (Gurnemanz) ; Paul Schoeffler (Amfortas) ; Sandra Warfield (voice) ; Albert Da Costa (First Knight) ; Clifford Harvuot (Second Knight ) ; Vilma Georgiou (First Esquire, flower maiden) ; Rosalind Elias (Second Esquire) ; Maria Leonie, Herta Glaz, Heidi Krall, Margaret Roggero, Emilia Cudari (Flower Maidens) ; Fritz Stiedry, conductor ; Milton Cross, broadcast announcer.

Indexed In:

Opera news, v. 20, no. 20 (Mar. 19, 1956).

Event

Originally recorded in the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Mar. 24, 1956.

Original Version

Re-recorded at NYPL, Jun., 1984, from borrowed copies (5 sound tape reels : 7 1/2 ips, full track, mono. ; 10 in.) of the original recording.

Added Author

Svanholm, Set. Performer

Harshaw, Margaret. Performer

Edelmann, Otto. Performer

Pechner, Gerhard. Performer

Schöffler, Paul, 1897- Performer

Moscona, Nicola. Performer

Warfield, Sandra. Performer

Da Costa, Albert, 1927-1967. Performer

Harvuot, Clifford, 1912-1990. Performer

Georgiou, Vilma. Performer

Elias, Rosalind. Performer

Franke, Paul, 1917-2011. Performer

Carelli, Gabor. Performer

Leone, Maria (Soprano) Performer

Glaz, Herta, 1908-2006. Performer

Krall, Heidi. Performer

Roggero, Margaret. Performer

Cundari, Emilia. Performer

Stiedry, Fritz. Conductor

Cross, Milton, 1897-1975. Commentator

Goldovsky, Boris. Commentator

Bampton, Rose. Commentator

Quayle, Anthony, 1913-1989. Commentator

Lawrence, Robert, 1912-1981, commentator.

Bagar, Robert C. Commentator

Spaeth, Sigmund, 1885-1965. Commentator

De Schauensee, Max. Commentator

Rudolf, Max, 1902-1995. Commentator

Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.) Performer

Added Title

Opera news on the air (Radio program)

Texaco's opera quiz (Radio program)

Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (Radio program)

Research Call Number

*LTCM 64 (F) Production notes on file.

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