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Siegfried music-drama in three acts from the trilogy, Der Ring des Nibelungen

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

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Description

4 sound tape reels (238 min.) : analog, 7 1/2 ips, 2 track, mono.; 10 in.

Series Statement

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Feb. 10, 1951]

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

Genre/Form

Live sound recordings.

Note

Title from house program ; series title from Opera news.
Durations: 0:32:34 (synopses and features) ; 3:25:52 (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

Event (note)

Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Feb. 10, 1951.

Reproduction (note)

Service copy (4 sound cassettes : analog, mono., Dolby-B processed) available in: *LTCM 382 (F)

Language (note)

Sung in German.

Contents

side 1. Introduction and synopsis of act 1 (Milton Cross) ; Opera news on the air (Boris Goldovsky, host, with Florence Easton) ; Synopses of acts 2 and 3 (Cross) ; Texaco's opera quiz (Deems Taylor, host, with Mary Ellis Peltz, Sigmund Spaeth and Robert Bagar) -- side 2. [blank] -- side 3. Act 1 through "Heil dir, Weiser Schmied!" -- side 4. Act 1 concluded -- side 5. Act 2 through Forest Murmurs -- side 6. Act 2 concluded -- side 7. Act 3 through "Selige Öde auf soniger Höh!" -- side 8. Act 3 concluded ; Closing remarks (Cross).

Call Number

*LT-10 4931

OCLC

NYPG89-R546

Author

Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883.

Title

Siegfried [sound recording] : music-drama in three acts from the trilogy, Der Ring des Nibelungen / music and libretto by Richard Wagner.

Playing Time

3234 32552

Series

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Feb. 10, 1951]

Performer

Ferdinand Frantz (The Wanderer) ; Set Svanholm (Siegfried) ; Helen Traubel (Brünnhilde) ; Karin Branzell (Erda) ; Peter Klein (Mime) ; Gerhard Pechner (Alberich) ; Dezsö Ernster (Fafner) ; Erna Berger (Voice of the Forest bird) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; Fritz Stiedry, conductor ; Milton Cross, broadcast announcer.

Original Version

Preservation tape, recorded at NYPL in Oct. 1989, from aluminum-based acetates (9 sound discs : analog, 33 1/3 rpm, mono. ; 16 in.) lent by the Metropolitan Opera.

Indexed In:

Opera news, v. 15, no. 16 (Feb. 5, 1951).

Event

Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Feb. 10, 1951.

Reproduction

Service copy (4 sound cassettes : analog, mono., Dolby-B processed) available in: *LTCM 382 (F)

Language

Sung in German.

Added Author

Frantz, Ferdinand. Performer

Svanholm, Set. prfprf

Traubel, Helen. Performer

Branzell, Karin, 1891-1974. Performer

Klein, Peter, 1907-1992. Performer

Pechner, Gerhard. Performer

Ernster, Dezsö, 1898-1981. Performer

Berger, Erna, 1900-1990, singer.

Stiedry, Fritz. Conductor

Cross, Milton, 1897-1975. Commentator

Goldovsky, Boris. Commentator

Easton, Florence, mm.

Taylor, Deems, 1885-1966. Commentator

Peltz, Mary Ellis, 1896-1981. Commentator

Spaeth, Sigmund, 1885-1965. Commentator

Bagar, Robert C. 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

*LT-10 4931 Master tape. Request cassette service copy in *LTCM 382 (F)

*LTCM 382 (F) Cassette service copy; production notes on file. Master tape in *LT-10 4931.

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