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Die Walkuere

Title: Die Walkuere [sound recording] / Richard Wagner.
Author: Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883.

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Description

4 sound cassettes (299 min.) : analog, mono., Dolby-B processed.

Series Statement

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Feb. 24, 1968]

Uniform Title

Ring des Nibelungen. Walküre
Biographies in music (Radio program)
Texaco's opera quiz (Radio program)
Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (Radio program)

Alternative Title

Ring des Nibelungen. Walküre
Walküre

Subjects

Genre/Form

Live sound recordings.

Note

Title from house program ; series title from Opera news.
Durations: 1:15:40 (synopses and features) ; 3:43:00 (opera).
Production notes and official cast list (7 p.) on file in the Rodgers and Hammerstein listening room.

Indexed In (note)

Opera news

Event (note)

Originally broadcast live from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Feb. 24, 1968.

Language (note)

Sung in German.

Contents

side 1. Introduction and synopsis of act 1 (Milton Cross) ; Biographies in music (Francis Robinson honors Lotte Lehmann on her 80th birthday) ; Synopsis of act 2 (Cross) -- side 2. Texaco's opera quiz (Edward Downes, host, with Richard Bonynge, John Drew Devereaux, Terry McEwen and James E. Seaver) ; Synopsis of act 3 (Cross) -- side 3. Act 1 to "hüte dich wohl!" -- side 4. Act 1, "Ein Schwert verhiess mein Vater" to conclusion -- side 5. Act 2 to "sonst wohl auch ein Zank" -- side 6. Act 2, "Schwer wiegt mir der Waffen Wucht!" to conclusion -- side 7. Act 3 to exit of Valkyries -- side 8. Act 3, "War es so Schmählich" to conclusion ; Closing remarks (Cross).

Call Number

*LTCM 278 (F)

OCLC

NYPG87-R280

Author

Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883.

Title

Die Walkuere [sound recording] / Richard Wagner.

Playing Time

011540 034300

Series

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Feb. 24, 1968]

Performer

Birgit Nilsson (Brünnhilde) ; Jon Vickers (Siegmund) ; Leonie Rysanek (Sieglinde) ; Thomas Stewart (Wotan) ; Christa Ludwig (Fricka) ; Karl Ridderbusch (Hunding) ; Phyllis Brill (Gerhilde) ; Gwendolyn Killebrew (Waltraute) ; Louise Pearl (Schwertleite) ; Carlotta Ordassy (Ortlinde) ; Clarice Carson (Helmwige) ; Barbro Ericson (Siegrune) ; Rosalind Hupp (Rossweisse) ; Joann Grillo (Grimgerde) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; Berislav Klobucar, conductor ; Milton Cross, broadcast announcer.

Original Version

Re-recorded at NYPL in Oct. 1987, from masters borrowed from the Metropolitan Opera (5 sound tape reels : 7 1/2 ips, 1 track, mono. ; 10 in.).

Indexed In:

Opera news, v. 32, no. 17 (Feb. 24, 1968).

Event

Originally broadcast live from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Feb. 24, 1968.

Language

Sung in German.

Added Author

Nilsson, Birgit. Performer

Vickers, Jon. Performer

Rysanek, Leonie. Performer

Stewart, Thomas, 1926- Performer

Ludwig, Christa. Performer

Ridderbusch, Karl. Performer

Brill, Phyllis. Performer

Killebrew, Gwendolyn. Performer

Pearl, Louise. Performer

Ordassy, Carlotta. Performer

Carson, Clarice, 1929-2015. Performer

Ericson, Barbro, 1930- Performer

Hupp, Rosalind. Performer

Grillo, Joann. Performer

Klobucar, Berislav. Conductor

Cross, Milton, 1897-1975. Commentator

Robinson, Francis, 1910- Commentator

Downes, Edward, 1911- Commentator

Bonynge, Richard. Commentator

Devereaux, John Drew. Commentator

McEwen, Terry. Commentator

Seaver, James. Commentator

Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.)

Added Title

Biographies in music (Radio program)

Texaco's opera quiz (Radio program)

Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (Radio program)

Research Call Number

*LTCM 278 (F) Production notes in listening room.

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