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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 (298 min.) : analog, mono., Dolby-B processed.

Series Statement

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of 1966-04-02 (Apr. 2, 1966)]

Uniform Title

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

Subjects

Genre/Form

Live sound recordings.

Note

Sung in German.
Title from house program ; series title from Opera news.
Durations: 0:54:50 (synopses and features) ; 4:03:00 (opera).
With production notes and official cast list (7 p.)

Indexed In (note)

Opera news

Event (note)

Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Apr. 2, 1966.

Contents

side 1. Introduction and synopsis of act 1 (Milton Cross) ; Opera news on the air: Edward Downes discusses leitmotifs in Parsifal ; Synopsis of act 2 (Cross) -- side 2. Texaco's opera quiz (Downes, Mary Ellis Peltz, Hans Busch and Richard Mohr) ; Synopsis of act 3 -- side 3. Act 1, scene 1 (to "Unerhörtes Werk!") -- side 4. Act 1, scene 1 (conclusion) ; Act 1, scene 2 (to "Dir gesunde!") -- side 5. Act 1, scene 2 (conclusion) ; Act 2, scene 1 -- side 6. Act 2, scene 2 -- side 7. Act 3, scene 1 (to "Nicht so!") -- side 8. Act 3 (conclusion) ; Closing remarks (Cross).

Call Number

*LTCM 243 (F)

OCLC

NYPG87-R25

Author

Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883. Composer

Title

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

Playing Time

005450 040300

Series

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of 1966-04-02 (Apr. 2, 1966)]

Performer

Sándor Kónya (Parsifal) ; Régine Crespin (Kundry) ; Jerome Hines (Gurnemanz) ; Morley Meredith (Klingsor) ; Walter Cassel (Amfortas) ; Justino Díaz (Titurel) ; Ruza Pospinov (Vioce) ; Robert Nagy (First Knight) ; Robert Goodloe (Second Knight) ; Mary Ellen Pracht (First Esquire) ; Sirley Love (Second Knight) ; Charles Anthony (Third Esquire) ; Dan Marek (Fourth Esquire) ; Heidi Krall, Joy Clements, Lilian Sukis, Loretta Di Franco, Marcia Baldwin, Nedda Casei (Flower Maidens) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; Georges Prêtre, conductor ; Milton Cross, program host.

Original Version

Re-recorded at NYPL in Oct. 1986, from masters lent by the Metropolitan Opera (5 sound tape reels : 7 1/2 ips, 1 track, mono. ; 10 in.)

Indexed In:

Opera news, v. 30, no. 22 (Apr. 2, 1966).

Event

Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Apr. 2, 1966.

Added Author

Kónya, Sándor, 1923-2002. Performer

Crespin, Régine. Performer

Hines, Jerome, 1921- Performer

Meredith, Morley. Performer

Cassel, Walter. Performer

Díaz, Justino. Performer

Baldani, Ruža, 1937- Performer

Nagy, Robert, 1929- Performer

Goodloe, Robert. Performer

Pracht, Mary Ellen. Performer

Love, Shirley. Performer

Anthony, Charles, 1929-2012. Performer

Marek, Dan. Performer

Krall, Heidi. Performer

Clements, Joy. Performer

Sukis, Lilian. Performer

Di Franco, Loretta. Performer

Baldwin, Marcia. Performer

Casei, Nedda, 1935-2020. Performer

Prêtre, Georges. Conductor

Cross, Milton, 1897-1975. Performer

Downes, Edward, 1911- Commentator

Peltz, Mary Ellis, 1896-1981. Commentator

Busch, Hans, 1914- Commentator

Mohr, Richard. 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 243 (F) (Production notes in listening room.)

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