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Lulu opera in three acts

Title: Lulu [sound recording] : opera in three acts / music and text by Alban Berg, after the tragedies Erdgeist and Büchse der Pandora by Frank Wedekind ; Act 3 edited and orchestrated by Friedrich Cerha.
Author: Berg, Alban, 1885-1935.

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Description

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

Donor/Sponsor

Gift of Metropolitan Opera.

Series Statement

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Apr. 2, 1988]

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

Title from house program ; series title from Opera news.
Durations: 0:53:19 (synopses and features) ; 3:02:25 (opera).
Production notes and official cast list (4 p.) on file in the Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound.
Compact discs.
House program on file in Music Division.

Indexed In (note)

Opera news

Performer (note)

Catherine Malfitano (Lulu) ; Tatiana Troyanos (Countess Geschwitz) ; Ronald Hamilton (Alwa) ; Barry McCauley (The Painter, The Negro) ; Franz Mazura (Dr Schön, Jack the Ripper) ; Lenus Carlson (The Animal Tamer, The Acrobat) ; Andrew Foldi (Schigolch) ; Diane Kesling (The Wardrobe Mistress, The Schoolboy, The Page) ; Robert Nagy (The Prince, The Manservant, The Marquis) ; Ara Berberian (The Theatre Manager, The Banker) ; Betsy Norden (Fifteen-year-old-Girl) ; Batyah Godfrey Ben-David (Her Mother) ; Margaret Jane Wray (Designer) ; John Darrenkamp (Journalist) ; Richard Vernon (Servant) ; Peter Sliker (The Physician, The Professor) ; Abraham Marcus (Clown) ; Gray Drane (Police Commissioner) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; James Levine, conductor ; Peter Allen, broadcast announcer.

Event (note)

Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Apr. 2, 1988.

Reproduction (note)

Preservation copy (3 sound cassettes : stereo, Dolby-B processed) in: *LTCM 532 (F)

Source (note)

Metropolitan Opera;

Language (note)

Sung in German.

Contents

CD 1. Introduction and synopsis of Act 1 (Peter Allen) ; Act 1 -- CD 2. Act 2 -- CD 3. Act 3 ; Closing announcements (Allen) -- CD 4. Opera news on the air (Boris Goldovsky) ; Synopsis of Act 2 (Allen) ; Texaco's opera quiz (William Livingstone, host, with Alison Ames, Edward Downes, William Weaver) ; Synopsis of Act 3 (Allen).

Call Number

*LDC 27333

OCLC

NYPG91-R1057

Author

Berg, Alban, 1885-1935.

Title

Lulu [sound recording] : opera in three acts / music and text by Alban Berg, after the tragedies Erdgeist and Büchse der Pandora by Frank Wedekind ; Act 3 edited and orchestrated by Friedrich Cerha.

Playing Time

005319 030225

Series

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Apr. 2, 1988]

Cast

Catherine Malfitano (Lulu) ; Tatiana Troyanos (Countess Geschwitz) ; Ronald Hamilton (Alwa) ; Barry McCauley (The Painter, The Negro) ; Franz Mazura (Dr Schön, Jack the Ripper) ; Lenus Carlson (The Animal Tamer, The Acrobat) ; Andrew Foldi (Schigolch) ; Diane Kesling (The Wardrobe Mistress, The Schoolboy, The Page) ; Robert Nagy (The Prince, The Manservant, The Marquis) ; Ara Berberian (The Theatre Manager, The Banker) ; Betsy Norden (Fifteen-year-old-Girl) ; Batyah Godfrey Ben-David (Her Mother) ; Margaret Jane Wray (Designer) ; John Darrenkamp (Journalist) ; Richard Vernon (Servant) ; Peter Sliker (The Physician, The Professor) ; Abraham Marcus (Clown) ; Gray Drane (Police Commissioner) ; 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 (3 sound tape reels : 7 1/2 ips, 2 track, stereo ; 10 in.) lent by the Metropolitan Opera.

Indexed In:

Opera news, v. 52, no. 14 (Mar. 26, 1988).

Event

Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Apr. 2, 1988.

Reproduction

Preservation copy (3 sound cassettes : stereo, Dolby-B processed) in: *LTCM 532 (F)

Language

Sung in German.

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Added Author

Wedekind, Frank, 1864-1918. Erdgeist.

Wedekind, Frank, 1864-1918. Büchse der Pandora.

Cerha, Friedrich. Arranger

Malfitano, Catherine. Performer

Troyanos, Tatiana. Performer

Hamilton, Ronald. Performer

McCauley, Barry. Performer

Mazura, Franz. Performer

Carlson, Lenus. Performer

Foldi, Andrew, 1920- Performer

Kesling, Diane. Performer

Nagy, Robert, 1929- Performer

Berberian, Ara. Performer

Norden, Betsy. Performer

Godfrey Ben-David, Batyah. Performer

Wray, Margaret Jane. Performer

Darrenkamp, John. Performer

Vernon, Richard, 1950- Performer

Sliker, Peter. Performer

Marcus, Abe. Performer

Drane, Gary. Performer

Levine, James, 1943-2021. Conductor

Allen, Peter, 1920- Commentator

Stevens, Risë, 1913-2013. Commentator

Goldovsky, Boris. Commentator

Livingstone, William. Commentator

Ames, Alison, 1945- Commentator

Downes, Edward, 1911- Commentator

Weaver, William, 1923-2013, 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 27333 Service copy.

*LTCM 532 (F) Preservation copy. (Production notes on file.) Use service copy in *LDC 27333.

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