Research Catalog

Title

Siegfried [sound recording] : opera in three acts / music and libretto by Richard Wagner.

Author

Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Hiestermann, Horst.
• Krämer, Toni.
• Sotin, Hans.
• Wlaschiha, Ekkehard.
• Macurdy, John.
• Bradley, Gwendolyn.
• Gjevang, Anne.
• Behrens, Hildegard.
• Levine, James, 1943-2021.
• Allen, Peter, 1920-
• Goldovsky, Boris.
• Easton, Florence.
• Downes, Edward, 1911-
• Purdy, Christopher.
• Eckert, Thor, Jr.
• London, Nora.
• Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.)
• Metropolitan Opera Radio Broadcast collection.

Description

7 sound discs : digital, stereo.; 4 3/4 in.

Donor/Sponsor

Gift of Metropolitan Opera.

Series Statement

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Mar. 5, 1988]

Uniform Title

• Ring des Nibelungen. Siegfried
• Opera news on the air (Radio program)
• Texaco's opera quiz (Radio program)
• Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (Radio program)

Alternative Title

Ring des Nibelungen. Siegfried

Subjects

• Live sound recordings
• Operas

Genre/Form

Live sound recordings.

Note

• Title from house program ; series title from Opera news.
• Durations: 1:05:13 (synopses and features) ; 4:09:51 (opera).
• Production notes and official cast list (5 p.) on file in the Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound.
• Compact discs.

Indexed In (note)

• Opera news

Performer (note)

• Horst Hiestermann (Mime) ; Toni Krämer (Siegfried) ; Hans Sotin (The Wanderer) ; Ekkehard Wlaschiha (Alberich) ; John Macurdy (Fafner) ; Gwendolyn Bradley (The Forest Bird) ; Anne Gjevang (Erda) ; Hildegard Behrens (Brünnhilde) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; James Levine, conductor ; Peter Allen, broadcast announcer.

Event (note)

• Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Mar. 5, 1988.

Reproduction (note)

• Preservation copy (4 sound cassettes : stereo, Dolby-B processed) in: *LTCM 528 (F)

Source (note)

• Metropolitan Opera;

Language (note)

• Sung in German.

Contents

CD 1. Introduction and synopsis of Act 1 (Peter Allen) ; Act 1, beginning -- CD 2. Act 1, conclusion -- CD 3. Act 2, beginning -- CD 4. Act 2, conclusion -- CD 5. Act 3, beginning -- CD 6. Act 3, conclusion ; Closing announcements (Allen) -- CD 7. Opera news on the air (Boris Goldovsky, host, with Florence Easton) ; Synopsis of Act 2 (Allen) ; Texaco's opera quiz (Christopher Purdy, host, with Edward Downes, Thor Eckert Jr. and Nora London) ; Synopsis of Act 3 (Allen).

Call Number

*LDC 27329

OCLC

NYPG91-R1035

Author

Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883.

Title

Siegfried [sound recording] : opera in three acts / music and libretto by Richard Wagner.

Playing Time

010513 040951

Series

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Mar. 5, 1988]

Cast

Horst Hiestermann (Mime) ; Toni Krämer (Siegfried) ; Hans Sotin (The Wanderer) ; Ekkehard Wlaschiha (Alberich) ; John Macurdy (Fafner) ; Gwendolyn Bradley (The Forest Bird) ; Anne Gjevang (Erda) ; Hildegard Behrens (Brünnhilde) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; James Levine, conductor ; Peter Allen, broadcast announcer.

Original Version

Preservation copy re-recorded at NYPL in Oct. 1991, from borrowed masters (4 sound tape reels : 7 1/2 ips, 2 track, stereo, ; 10 in.) lent by the Metropolitan Opera.

Indexed In:

Opera news, v. 52, no. 12 (Feb. 27, 1988).

Event

Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Mar. 5, 1988.

Reproduction

Preservation copy (4 sound cassettes : stereo, Dolby-B processed) in: *LTCM 528 (F)

Local Note

House program on file in Music Division.

Language

Sung in German.

Connect to:

Request Access to Music Division Audio and Moving Image material

Added Author

Hiestermann, Horst. Performer

Krämer, Toni. Performer

Sotin, Hans. Performer

Wlaschiha, Ekkehard. Performer

Macurdy, John. Performer

Bradley, Gwendolyn. Performer

Gjevang, Anne. Performer

Behrens, Hildegard. Performer

Levine, James, 1943-2021. Conductor

Allen, Peter, 1920- Commentator

Goldovsky, Boris. Performer

Easton, Florence. Performer

Downes, Edward, 1911- Commentator

Purdy, Christopher. Commentator

Eckert, Thor, Jr. Commentator

London, Nora. Commentator

Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.)

Added Title

Opera news on the air (Radio program)

Texaco's opera quiz (Radio program)

Added Title

Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (Radio program)

Research Call Number

*LDC 27329 Service copy.

*LTCM 528 (F) Preservation copy. (Production notes on file.) Use service copy in *LDC 27329.