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Tristan und Isolde music-drama in three acts

Title: Tristan und Isolde [sound recording] : music-drama in three acts / music and libretto by Richard Wagner.
Author: Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883.

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Description

4 sound tape reels (234 min.) : analog, 7 1/2 ips, 2 track, mono.; 10 in.

Series Statement

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Dec. 9, 1950]

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: 0:35:14 (synopses and features) ; 3:19:05 (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, Dec. 9, 1950.

Reproduction (note)

Service copy (4 sound cassettes : analog, mono., Dolby-B processed) available in: *LTCM 373 (F)

Language (note)

Sung in German.

Contents

side 1. Introduction and synopsis of act 1 (Milton Cross) ; Opera new s on the air (Boris Goldovsky, host, with Elmer Davis) ; Synopsis of act 2 (Cross) ; Texaco's opera quiz (Deems Taylor, host, with Mary Ellis Peltz, Robert Bagar and John Gutman) ; Synopsis of act 3 (Cross) -- side 2. [blank] -- side 3. Prelude ; Act 1 through "Von einem kahn...Fluch dir, Verruchter" -- side 4. Act 1 concluded -- side 5. Act 2 through "Thatest du's wirklich? Wähust du das?" -- side 6. Act 2 concluded -- side 7. Act 3 through Shepherds pipe -- side 8. Act 3 concluded ; Closing remarks (Cross).

Call Number

*LT-10 4922

OCLC

NYPG89-R522

Author

Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883.

Title

Tristan und Isolde [sound recording] : music-drama in three acts / music and libretto by Richard Wagner.

Playing Time

3514 31905

Series

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Dec. 9, 1950]

Performer

Ramon Vinay (Tristan) ; Helen Traubel (Isolde) ; Sven Nilsson (King Marke) ; Paul Schoeffler (Kurvenal) ; Blanche Thebom (Brangaene) ; Hugh Thompson (Melot) ; Lawrence Davidson (Steersman) ; Leslie Chabay (A shepherd) ; Thomas Hayward (A sailor's voice) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; Fritz Reiner, conductor ; Milton Cross, broadcast announcer.

Original Version

Preservation tape, recorded at NYPL in Aug. 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. 7 (Dec. 4, 1950).

Event

Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Dec. 9, 1950.

Reproduction

Service copy (4 sound cassettes : analog, mono., Dolby-B processed) available in: *LTCM 373 (F)

Language

Sung in German.

Added Author

Vinay, Ramon. Performer

Traubel, Helen. Performer

Nilsson, Sven, 1898-1970, singer.

Schöffler, Paul, 1897-1977, singer.

Thebom, Blanche. Performer

Thompson, Hugh, 1915-2006, singer.

Davidson, Lawrence (Baritone) Performer

Chabay, Leslie, 1907-1989, singer.

Hayward, Thomas, 1917-1995, singer.

Reiner, Fritz, 1888-1963. Conductor

Cross, Milton, 1897-1975. Commentator

Goldovsky, Boris. Commentator

Davis, Elmer. Commentator

Taylor, Deems, 1885-1966. Commentator

Peltz, Mary Ellis, 1896-1981. Commentator

Bagar, Robert C. Commentator

Gutman, John. 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 4922 Master tape. Request cassette service copy in *LTCM 373 (F)

*LTCM 373 (F) Cassette service copy; production notes on file. Master tape in *LT-10 4922.

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