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Ariadne auf Naxos : opera in a prologue and one act

Title: Ariadne auf Naxos : radio broadcast, 1985-01-05 [sound recording] : opera in a prologue and one act / music by Richard Strauss ; libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal.
Author: Stauss, Richard, 1864-1949

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Description

2 sound cassettes (166 min.) : stereo, Dolby-B processed.

Series Statement

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Jan. 5, 1985]

Uniform Title

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: 0:34:07 (synopses and features) ; 2:12:24 (opera).
Production notes and official cast list (3 p.) on file in the Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound.

Indexed In (note)

Opera news

Performer (note)

Nico Castel (The major-domo) ; Maria Ewing (The composer) ; Dieter Weller (The music master) ; James Atherton (Scaramuccio) ; James Courtney (A lackey) ; Dale Duesing (Harlekin) ; Philip Creech (Brighella) ; Ara Berberian (Trufalldin) ; Gianna Rolandi (Zerbinetta) ; Joseph Frank (The dancing master) ; Paul Franke (An officer) ; William Cochran (Bacchus, The tenor) ; Russell Christopher (A wigmaker) ; Jessye Norman (Ariadne, The prima donna) ; Myra Merritt (Najade) ; Isola Jones (Dryade) ; Marvis Martin (Echo) ; Gary Drane (The owner of the mansion) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; Andrew Davis, conductor ; Peter Allen, broadcast announcer.

Event (note)

Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Jan. 5, 1985.

Language (note)

Sung in German.

Contents

side 1. Introduction and synopsis of prologue (Peter Allen) ; Texaco's opera quiz (Edward Downes, host, with Peter Bonelli, William B. McCloskey and Terrence McNally) ; Synopsis of Ariadne (Allen) -- side 2. Prologue -- side 3. Ariadne auf Naxos through "Noch glaub' ich dem einen ganz" -- side 4. Ariadne concluded ; Closing remarks (Allen).

Call Number

*LTCM 460 (F)

OCLC

NYPG91-R194

Author

Stauss, Richard, 1864-1949.

Title

Ariadne auf Naxos : radio broadcast, 1985-01-05 [sound recording] : opera in a prologue and one act / music by Richard Strauss ; libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal.

Playing Time

003407 021224

Series

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Jan. 5, 1985]

Cast

Nico Castel (The major-domo) ; Maria Ewing (The composer) ; Dieter Weller (The music master) ; James Atherton (Scaramuccio) ; James Courtney (A lackey) ; Dale Duesing (Harlekin) ; Philip Creech (Brighella) ; Ara Berberian (Trufalldin) ; Gianna Rolandi (Zerbinetta) ; Joseph Frank (The dancing master) ; Paul Franke (An officer) ; William Cochran (Bacchus, The tenor) ; Russell Christopher (A wigmaker) ; Jessye Norman (Ariadne, The prima donna) ; Myra Merritt (Najade) ; Isola Jones (Dryade) ; Marvis Martin (Echo) ; Gary Drane (The owner of the mansion) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; Andrew Davis, conductor ; Peter Allen, broadcast announcer.

Indexed In:

Opera news, v. 49, no. 8 (Jan. 5, 1985).

Event

Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Jan. 5, 1985.

Original Version

Re-recorded at NYPL in Apr. 1991, from borrowed masters (2 sound tape reels : 7 1/2 ips, 2 track, stereo ; 10 in.) lent by the Metropolitan Opera.

Language

Sung in German.

Added Author

Hofmannsthal, Hugo von, 1874-1929. Librettist

Castel, Nico. Performer

Ewing, Maria. Performer

Weller, Dieter. Performer

Atherton, James. Performer

Courtney, James, 1946- performer.

Duesing, Dale. Performer

Creech, Philip. Performer

Berberian, Ara. Performer

Rolandi, Gianna. Performer

Frank, Joseph. Performer

Franke, Paul, 1917-2011. Performer

Cochran, William. Performer

Christopher, Russell. Performer

Norman, Jessye. Performer

Merritt, Myra. Performer

Jones, Isola. Performer

Martin, Marvis. Performer

Drane, Gary. Performer

Davis, Andrew, 1944-2024. Conductor

Allen, Peter, 1920-2016. Commentator

Scotto, Renata, 1934-2023. Commentator

Downes, Edward, 1911-2001, commentator.

Bonelli, Peter. Commentator

McCloskey, William B., 1928- Commentator

McNally, Terrence. Commentator

Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.)

Added Title

Texaco's opera quiz (Radio program)

Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (Radio program)

Research Call Number

*LTCM 460 (F) \(Production notes in listening room.)

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