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Die Walküre music drama in three acts from the trilogy Der Ring des Nibelungen

Title: Die Walküre [sound recording] : music drama in three acts from the trilogy Der Ring des Nibelungen / Richard Wagner.
Author: Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883

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Description

4 sound cassettes (238 min.) : analog, mono., Dolby-B processed.

Series Statement

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Mar. 6, 1965]

Uniform Title

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

Alternative Title

Ring des Nibelungen. Walküre

Subjects

Note

Titles from Opera news.
Durations: 0:46:40 (synopses and features) ; 3:11:20 (opera).
Production notes and official cast list (7 p.) on file in the Rodgers & Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound.

Indexed In (note)

Opera news

Event (note)

Originally broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Mar. 6, 1965.

Language (note)

Sung in German.

Contents

side 1. Introduction and synopsis of act 1 (Milton Cross) ; Opera news on the air (Edward Downes discusses Die Walküre with Birgit Nilsson and William Steinberg) ; Synopsis of act 2 (Cross) -- side 2. Texaco's opera quiz (Robert Lawrence, Walter Ducloux, Walter Slezak, Terry McEwen and Sigmund Spaeth) ; Synopsis of act 3 (Cross) -- side 3. Act 1, scenes 1-2 -- side 4. Act 1, scene 3 -- side 5. Act 2 to scene 3: "... um der Ehe gebrochenen Eid!" -- side 6. Act 2, conclusion -- side 7. Act 3, scenes 1-2 -- side 8. Act 3, scene 3 ; Closing remarks (Cross).

Call Number

*LTCM 219 (F)

OCLC

NYPG86-R144

Author

Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883.

Title

Die Walküre [sound recording] : music drama in three acts from the trilogy Der Ring des Nibelungen / Richard Wagner.

Playing Time

004640 031120

Series

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Mar. 6, 1965]

Performer

Birgit Nilsson (Brünnhilde) ; Leonie Rysanek (Sieglinde) ; Jon Vickers (Siegmund) ; George London (Wotan) ; David Ward (Hunding) ; Irene Dalis (Fricka) ; Carlotta Ordassy (Gerhilde) ; Mignon Dunn (Waltraute) ; Gladys Kriese (Schwertleite) ; Beverly Bower (Ortlinde) ; Lynn Owen (Helmwige) ; Helen Vanni (Siegrune) ; Janis Martin (Rossweisse) ; Joann Grillo (Grimgerde) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; William Steinberg, conductor ; Milton Cross, broadcast announcer.

Original Version

Re-recorded at NYPL in Mar. 1986, from borrowed masters (4 sound tape reels : 7 1/2 ips, 1 track, mono. ; 10 in.).

Indexed In:

Opera news, v. 29, no. 17 (Mar. 6, 1965).

Event

Originally broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Mar. 6, 1965.

Language

Sung in German.

Added Author

Nilsson, Birgit. Performer. Commentator

Rysanek, Leonie. Performer

Vickers, Jon. Performer

London, George, 1920-1985. Performer

Ward, David, 1922-1983, singer.

Dalis, Irene. Performer

Ordassy, Carlotta. Performer

Dunn, Mignon. Performer

Kriese, Gladys. Performer

Bower, Beverly. Performer

Owen, Lynn. Performer

Vanni, Helen. Performer

Martin, Janis. Performer

Grillo, Joann. Performer

Steinberg, William, 1899-1978. Conductor. Commentator

Cross, Milton, 1897-1975. Commentator

Downes, Edward, 1911-2001, commentator.

Lawrence, Robert, 1912-1981, commentator.

Ducloux, Walter. Commentator

Slezak, Walter, 1902-1983, commentator.

McEwen, Terry. Commentator

Spaeth, Sigmund, 1885-1965. Commentator

Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.)

Added Title

Opera news on the air (Radio program)

Texaco's opera quiz (Radio program)

Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (Radio program)

Research Call Number

*LTCM 219 (F) \(Production notes filed in listening room.)

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