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Parsifal opera in three acts

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

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Description

5 sound tape reels (297 min.) : analog, 7 1/2 ips, 2 track, mono.; 10 in.

Series Statement

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Apr. 17, 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: 0:59:02 (synopses and features) ; 3:58:03 (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

Performer (note)

George London (Amfortas) ; Lubomir Vichegonov (Titurel) ; Hans Hotter (Gurnemanz) ; Set Svanholm (Parsifal) ; Lawrence Davidson (Klingsor) ; Astrid Varnay (Kundry) ; Jean Madeira (A voice) ; James McCracken (First knight) ; Osie Hawkins (Second knight) ; Genevieve Warner (First esquire) ; Mildred Miller (Second esquire) ; Paul Franke (Third esquire) ; Gabor Carelli (Fourth esquire) ; Lucine Amara, Maria Leone, Herta Glaz, Heidi Krall, Jean Fenn, Margaret Roggero (Flower maidens) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; Fritz Stiedry, conductor ; Milton Cross, broadcast announcer.

Event (note)

Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Apr. 17, 1954.

Reproduction (note)

Service copy (4 sound cassettes : analog, mono., Dolby-B processed) available in: *LTCM 407 (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 Rose Bampton and Charles Kullman) ; Lowell Wadmond ; Synopsis of act 2 (Cross) -- side 2. Texaco's opera quiz (Robert Lawrence, host, with Deems Taylor, Sigmund Spaeth, Robert Bagar and George Marek) ; Synopsis of act 3 (Cross) -- side 3. Prelude ; Act 1 through "Durch mitleid wissend, der reine Thor" -- side 4. "Du Könntest morden" through "Wein und Brot" -- side 5. Act 1 concluded ; Act 2 through "Amfortas" -- side 6. Act 2 concluded -- side 7. Act 3 through "Nicht so!" -- side 8. Act 3 concluded ; Closing remarks (Cross).

Call Number

*LT-10 5557

OCLC

NYPG90-R350

Author

Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883.

Title

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

Playing Time

005902 035803

Series

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Apr. 17, 1954]

Cast

George London (Amfortas) ; Lubomir Vichegonov (Titurel) ; Hans Hotter (Gurnemanz) ; Set Svanholm (Parsifal) ; Lawrence Davidson (Klingsor) ; Astrid Varnay (Kundry) ; Jean Madeira (A voice) ; James McCracken (First knight) ; Osie Hawkins (Second knight) ; Genevieve Warner (First esquire) ; Mildred Miller (Second esquire) ; Paul Franke (Third esquire) ; Gabor Carelli (Fourth esquire) ; Lucine Amara, Maria Leone, Herta Glaz, Heidi Krall, Jean Fenn, Margaret Roggero (Flower maidens) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; Fritz Stiedry, conductor ; Milton Cross, broadcast announcer.

Original Version

Preservation tape, recorded at NYPL in Mar. 1990, from aluminum-based acetates (10 sound discs : analog, 33 1/3 rpm, mono. ; 16 in.) lent by the Metropolitan Opera.

Indexed In:

Opera news, v. 18, no. 23 (Apr. 12, 1954).

Event

Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Apr. 17, 1954.

Reproduction

Service copy (4 sound cassettes : analog, mono., Dolby-B processed) available in: *LTCM 407 (F)

Language

Sung in German.

Added Author

London, George, 1920-1985. Performer

Vichegonov, Lubomir. Performer

Hotter, Hans. Performer

Svanholm, Set. Performer

Davidson, Lawrence (Baritone)

Varnay, Astrid. Performer

Madeira, Jean. Performer

McCracken, James, 1926-1988, singer.

Hawkins, Osie. Performer

Warner, Genevieve. Performer

Miller, Mildred, 1924- Performer

Franke, Paul, 1917-2011. Performer

Carelli, Gabor. Performer

Amara, Lucine. Performer

Leone, Maria (Soprano)

Glaz, Herta, 1908-2006, singer.

Fenn, Jean. Performer

Roggero, Margaret. Performer

Krall, Heidi. Performer

Stiedry, Fritz. Conductor

Cross, Milton, 1897-1975. Commentator

Wadmond, Lowell. Commentator

Goldovsky, Boris. Commentator

Bampton, Rose. Commentator

Kullman, Charles, 1903-1983. Commentator

Lawrence, Robert, 1912-1981, commentator.

Spaeth, Sigmund, 1885-1965. Commentator

Taylor, Deems, 1885-1966. Commentator

Bagar, Robert C. Commentator

Marek, George R. (George Richard), 1902-1987. 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 5557 Master tape. Request cassette service copy in *LTCM 407 (F)

*LTCM 407 (F) Cassette service copy; production notes on file. Master tape in *LT-10 5557.

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