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Tannhäuser opera in three acts

Title: Tannhäuser [sound recording] : opera in three acts / music and libretto by Richard Wagner.
Author: Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883.

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Description

4 sound tape reels (230 min.) : analog, 7 1/2 ips, 2 track, mono.; 10 in.

Series Statement

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Jan. 9, 1954]

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: 0:50:55 (synopses and features) ; 2:58:52 (opera).
Production notes and official cast list (4 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, Jan. 9, 1954.

Reproduction (note)

Service copy (3 sound cassettes : analog, mono., Dolby-B processed) available in: *LTCM 393 (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 Blanche Thebom) ; Synopsis of act 2 (Cross) ; Texaco's opera quiz (Robert Lawrence, host, with Mary Ellis Peltz, Sigmund Spaeth and Howard Taubman) -- side 2. Synopsis of act 3 (Cross) -- side 3. Act 1 through "Frau Holda kam aus dem Berg hervor" -- side 4. Act 1 concluded ; Act 2 through "Gepriesen March: Freudig Begrüssen" -- side 5. Act 2 concluded ; Act 3 through "Introduction" -- side 6. Act 3 concluded ; Closing remarks (Cross).

Call Number

*LT-10 4941

OCLC

NYPG90-R98

Author

Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883.

Title

Tannhäuser [sound recording] : opera in three acts / music and libretto by Richard Wagner.

Playing Time

005055 025852

Series

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Jan. 9, 1954]

Performer

Jerome Hines (Landgraf) ; Ramon Vinay (Tannhäuser) ; George London (Wolfram) ; Brian Sullivan (Walther) ; Clifford Harvuot (Biterolf) ; Paul Franke (Heinrich) ; Norman Scott (Reinmar) ; Margaret Harshaw (Elisabeth) ; Astrid Varnay (Venus) ; Roberta Peters (A young shepherd) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; George Szell, conductor ; Milton Cross, broadcast announcer.

Original Version

Preservation tape, recorded at NYPL in Jan. 1990, from aluminum-based acetates (8 sound discs : analog, 33 1/3 rpm, mono. ; 16 in.) lent by the Metropolitan Opera.

Indexed In:

Opera news, v. 18, no. 9 (Jan. 4, 1954).

Event

Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Jan. 9, 1954.

Reproduction

Service copy (3 sound cassettes : analog, mono., Dolby-B processed) available in: *LTCM 393 (F)

Language

Sung in German.

Added Author

Hines, Jerome, 1921- Performer

Vinay, Ramon. Performer

London, George, 1920-1985. Performer

Sullivan, Brian, 1919-1969. Performer

Harvuot, Clifford, 1912-1990. Performer

Franke, Paul, 1917-2011. Performer

Scott, Norman, 1921-1968. Performer

Harshaw, Margaret. Performer

Varnay, Astrid. Performer

Peters, Roberta, 1930-2017. Performer

Szell, George, 1897-1970. Conductor

Cross, Milton, 1897-1975. Commentator

Goldovsky, Boris. Commentator

Thebom, Blanche. Commentator

Lawrence, Robert, 1912- Commentator

Peltz, Mary Ellis, 1896-1981. Commentator

Spaeth, Sigmund, 1885-1965. Commentator

Taubman, Hyman Howard, 1907- 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 4941 Master tape. Request cassette service copy in *LTCM 393 (F)

*LTCM 393 (F) Cassette service copy; production notes on file. Master tape in *LT-10 4941.

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