Research Catalog

Title

Parsifal [sound recording] : stage-consecrating festival play in three acts / music and libretto by Richard Wagner.

Author

Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Moll, Kurt, 1938-
• Wells, Jeffrey.
• Bunnell, Jane.
• Grant Murphy, Heidi.
• Groves, Paul (Tenor)
• Meier, Waltraud.
• Weikl, Bernd.
• Murray, John Horton.
• Fitch, Bernard.
• Jerusalem, Siegfried.
• Rootering, Jan-Hendrik, 1950-
• Bean, Gweneth.
• Mazura, Franz.
• Erickson, Kaaren.
• Uecker, Korliss.
• Geyer, Gwynne.
• White, Wendy.
• Levine, James, 1943-2021.
• Allen, Peter, 1920-2016.
• Lee, M. Owen, 1930-2019.
• Downes, Edward, 1911-
• Abbate, Carolyn.
• Bernheimer, Martin.
• Hammond, Antony D.
• Horowitz, Wanda Toscanini.
• Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.)
• Metropolitan Opera Radio Broadcast collection.

Description

6 sound discs (326 min.) : digital, stereo.; 4 3/4 in.

Donor/Sponsor

Gift of the Metropolitan Opera

Series Statement

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera International Radio Network ; [broadcast of Mar. 28, 1992]

Uniform Title

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

Subjects

• Live sound recordings
• Operas

Genre/Form

Live sound recordings.

Note

• Sung in German.
• Compact discs.
• House program on file in Music Division.
• Durations: 0:59:55 (synopses and features) ; 4:26:43 (opera).
• Production notes and official cast list (5 p.) on file in the Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound.

Indexed In (note)

• Opera news

Performer (note)

• Kurt Moll (Gurnemanz) ; Jeffrey Wells (Second Knight of the Grail) ; Jane Bunnell (Second Esquire, Flower Maiden) ; Heidi Grant Murphy (First Esquire, Flower Maiden) ; Paul Groves (First Knight of the Grail) ; Waultraud Meier (Kundry) ; Bernd Weikl (Amfortas) ; John Horton Murray (Third Esquire) ; Bernard Fitch (Fourth Esquire) ; Siegfried Jerusalem (Parsifal) ; Jan-Hendrik Rootering (Titurel) ; Gweneth Bean (A Voice) ; Franz Mazura (Klingsor) ; Kaaren Erickson, Korliss Uecker, Gwynne Geyer and Wendy White (Flower Maidens) ; 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. 28, 1992.

Reproduction (note)

• Preservation copy (4 sound cassettes : stereo, Dolby-B processed) available in: *LTCM 613 (F)

Source (note)

• Metropolitan Opera;

Contents

CD 1. Introduction and synopsis of act I (Peter Allen) ; Prelude ; Act I, part 1 -- CD 2. Act I, part 2 -- CD 3. Act II -- CD 4. Act III, part 1 -- CD 5. Act III, part 2 ; Closing remarks (Allen) -- CD 6. Opera news on the air (M. Owen Lee) ; Met Moments (Edward Downes, Wanda Toscanini Horowitz) ; Synopsis of act II (Allen) ; Texaco's opera quiz (Edward Downes, host, with Carolyn Abbate, Martin Bernheimer and Antony D. Hammond) ; Synopsis of act III (Allen).

Call Number

*LTCM 613 (F)

OCLC

NYPG92-R1419

Author

Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883.

Title

Parsifal [sound recording] : stage-consecrating festival play in three acts / music and libretto by Richard Wagner.

Playing Time

005955 042643

Series

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera International Radio Network ; [broadcast of Mar. 28, 1992]

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera International Radio Network ; [broadcast of Mar. 28, 1992]

Cast

Kurt Moll (Gurnemanz) ; Jeffrey Wells (Second Knight of the Grail) ; Jane Bunnell (Second Esquire, Flower Maiden) ; Heidi Grant Murphy (First Esquire, Flower Maiden) ; Paul Groves (First Knight of the Grail) ; Waultraud Meier (Kundry) ; Bernd Weikl (Amfortas) ; John Horton Murray (Third Esquire) ; Bernard Fitch (Fourth Esquire) ; Siegfried Jerusalem (Parsifal) ; Jan-Hendrik Rootering (Titurel) ; Gweneth Bean (A Voice) ; Franz Mazura (Klingsor) ; Kaaren Erickson, Korliss Uecker, Gwynne Geyer and Wendy White (Flower Maidens) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; James Levine, conductor ; Peter Allen, broadcast announcer.

Indexed In:

Opera news, v. 56, no. 14 (Mar. 28, 1992).

Event

Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Mar. 28, 1992.

Original Version

Preservation copy re-recorded at NYPL in July, 1992, from borrowed masters (5 sound tape reels : 7 1/2 ips, 2 track, stereo ; 10 in.) lent by the Metropolitan Opera.

Reproduction

Preservation copy (4 sound cassettes : stereo, Dolby-B processed) available in: *LTCM 613 (F)

Connect to:

Request Access to Music Division Audio and Moving Image material

Added Author

Moll, Kurt, 1938- Performer

Wells, Jeffrey. Performer

Bunnell, Jane. Performer

Grant Murphy, Heidi. Performer

Groves, Paul (Tenor) Performer

Meier, Waltraud. Performer

Weikl, Bernd. Performer

Murray, John Horton. Performer

Fitch, Bernard. Performer

Jerusalem, Siegfried. Performer

Rootering, Jan-Hendrik, 1950- Performer

Bean, Gweneth. Performer

Mazura, Franz. Performer

Erickson, Kaaren. Performer

Uecker, Korliss. Performer

Geyer, Gwynne. Performer

White, Wendy. Performer

Levine, James, 1943-2021. Conductor

Allen, Peter, 1920-2016. Commentator

Lee, M. Owen, 1930-2019. Commentator

Downes, Edward, 1911- Commentator

Abbate, Carolyn. Commentator

Bernheimer, Martin. Commentator

Hammond, Antony D. Commentator

Horowitz, Wanda Toscanini. Commentator

Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.)

Added Title

Opera news on the air (Radio program)

Texaco's opera quiz (Radio program)

Met Moments (Radio program)

Added Title

Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (Radio program)

Research Call Number

*LTCM 613 (F) Preservation copy. (Program notes on file.) Use service copy in *LDC 30397.

*LDC 30397 Service copy.