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Tristan und Isolde music-drama in three acts

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

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Description

5 sound discs (in 2 containers) : digital, mono.; 4 3/4 in.

Donor/Sponsor

Gift of the Metropolitan Opera.

Series Statement

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Broadcast ; [broadcast of] Feb. 8, 1941
Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Broadcast ; [broadcast of] Feb. 8, 1941.

Uniform Title

Tristan und Isolde
Opera question forum (Radio program)
Opera Guild at home (Radio program)
Our American way of living (Radio program)
Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (Radio program)

Alternative Title

Tristan und Isolde

Subjects

Genre/Form

Live sound recordings.

Note

Title from house program ; series title from Opera news.
Compact discs.
Durations: 3:24:50 (opera) ; 0:46:35 (synopses and features).
House program available from Music Division.

Indexed In (note)

Opera news, (Feb. 3, 1941)

Event (note)

Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Feb. 8, 1941.

Source (note)

Metropolitan Opera;

Language (note)

Sung in German.

Contents

Disc 1. Introduction and synopsis of Act 1 (Milton Cross) ; Act 1 (scenes 1-4) -- Disc 2. Act 1 (scene 5) -- Disc 3. Act 2 -- Disc 4. Act 3 ; Closing remarks (Cross) -- Disc 5. Opera question forum (Cross questions Elisabeth Rethberg, Charles Kullman, and Pitts Sanborn ; Synopsis of Act 2 (Cross) ; "Our American way of living" (Mrs. Harold Vincent Milligan introduces David Sarnoff who speaks about American progress in communications) ; Opera Guild at home (Mrs. August Belmont and Walter Damrosch discuss Wagner performances by the Met) ; Synopsis of Act 3 (Cross).

Call Number

*LDC 33025

OCLC

NYPG05-R10090

Author

Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883.

Title

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

Series

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Broadcast ; [broadcast of] Feb. 8, 1941

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Broadcast ; [broadcast of] Feb. 8, 1941.

Performer

Lauritz Melchior (Tristan) ; Kirsten Flagstad (Isolde) ; Alexander Kipnis (King Marke) ; Julius Huehn (Kurvenal) ; Kerstin Thorborg (Brangäne) ; Emery Darcy (Melot & sailor's voice) ; John Gurney (steersman) ; Karl Laufkottër (shepherd) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; Erich Leinsdorf, conductor ; Milton Cross, broadcast announcer.

Event

Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Feb. 8, 1941.

Indexed In:

Opera news, (Feb. 3, 1941)

Language

Sung in German.

Source

Gift; Metropolitan Opera; May, 2003.

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Added Author

Melchior, Lauritz. Performer

Flagstad, Kirsten, 1895-1962. Performer

Kipnis, Alexander, 1891-1978. Performer

Huehn, Julius. Performer

Thorborg, Kerstin, 1896-1970. Performer

Darcy, Emery. Performer

Laufkoetter, Karl. Performer

Gurney, John, 1902-1997. Performer

Leinsdorf, Erich, 1912-1993. Conductor

Cross, Milton, 1897-1975. Commentator

Rethberg, Elisabeth, 1894-1976, commentator.

Kullman, Charles, 1903-1983. Commentator

Sanborn, Pitts, 1879-1941. Commentator

Belmont, Eleanor Robson, 1879-1979, commentator.

Damrosch, Walter, 1862-1950. Commentator

Milligan, Harold Vincent, Mrs. Commentator

Sarnoff, David, 1891-1971. Commentator

Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.)

Added Title

Opera question forum (Radio program)

Opera Guild at home (Radio program)

Our American way of living (Radio program)

Added Title

Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (Radio program)

Research Call Number

*LDC 33025

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