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Hansel and Gretel : fairy-tale opera in two acts

Title: Hansel and Gretel : radio broadcast, 2007-12-29 [sound recording] : fairy-tale opera in two acts / music by Engelbert Humperdinck ; libretto by Adelheid Wette ; English translation by David Pountney.
Author: Humperdinck, Engelbert, 1854-1921.
Publication: [New York, NY] : Metropolitan Opera, [2007]

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Description

2 sound discs : digital; 4 3/4 in.

Series Statement

Metropolitan Opera Saturday matinée broadcasts
Toll Brothers--Metropolitan Opera International Radio Network ; [broadcast] of Dec. 29, 2007

Uniform Title

Hänsel und Gretel. English
Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (Radio program)

Alternative Title

Hänsel und Gretel.

Subjects

Genre/Form

Live sound recordings.

Note

Compact discs.
House program on file in Music Division.

Indexed In (note)

Opera news

Event (note)

Broadcast live from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Dec. 29, 2007.

Source (note)

Metropolitan Opera;

Language (note)

Sung in English.

Contents

CD 1. Introduction (Margaret Juntwait interviews director, Richard Jones, and choreographer, Linda Dobell) ; synopsis of act 1 (Juntwait and Siff) ; Act 1 ; Mary Jo Heath interviews Alice Coote -- CD 2. Met Cameo (Naomi Lewin interviews child chorister, Deena Sidney Fink, Alan Held, and Rosalind Plowright) ; Elena Park interviews Richard Jones and set designer, John Macfarlane ; Juntwait interviews Stephanie Blythe ; Mary Jo Heath interviews Bryn Terfel ; Juntwait and Siff speak about the role of the witch ; synopsis of act 2 ; Act 2 ; Closing remarks (Juntwait and Siff).

Call Number

*LDC 46558

OCLC

285438557

Author

Humperdinck, Engelbert, 1854-1921.

Title

Hansel and Gretel : radio broadcast, 2007-12-29 [sound recording] : fairy-tale opera in two acts / music by Engelbert Humperdinck ; libretto by Adelheid Wette ; English translation by David Pountney.

Imprint

[New York, NY] : Metropolitan Opera, [2007]

Series

Metropolitan Opera Saturday matinée broadcasts

Toll Brothers--Metropolitan Opera International Radio Network ; [broadcast] of Dec. 29, 2007

Performer

Alice Coote (Hänsel) ; Christine Schäfer (Gretel) ; Philip Landridge (Witch) ; Rosalind Plowright (Gertrude, the mother) ; Alan Held (Peter, the father) ; Sasha Cooke (Sandman) ; Lisette Oropesa (Dew Fairy) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Childrens' Chorus ; Vladimir Jurowski, conductor ; Margaret Juntwait, broadcast announcer.

Event

Broadcast live from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Dec. 29, 2007.

Indexed In:

Opera news, v. 72, no. 6 (Dec. 2007)

Language

Sung in English.

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Added Author

Wette, Adelheid, 1858-1916. Librettist

Coote, Alice. Performer. Interviewee

Schäfer, Christine, 1965- Performer

Langridge, Philip, 1939-2010. Performer

Plowright, Rosalind. Performer. Interviewee

Held, Alan, 1959- Performer. Interviewee

Cooke, Sasha. Performer

Oropesa, Lisette. Performer

Jurowski, Vladimir, 1972- Conductor

Heath, Mary Joanne Renner, 1954- Interviewer

Park, Elena. Interviewer

Jones, Richard, 1953 June 7- Interviewee

Macfarlane, John. Interviewee

Juntwait, Margaret. Commentator

Siff, Ira. Commentator

Blythe, Stephanie. Interviewee

Dobell, Linda. Interviewee

Fink, Deena Sidney. Interviewee

Lewin, Naomi. Interviewer

Terfel, Bryn. Interviewee

Pountney, David. Translator

Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.)

Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.) Donor NN-RHA

Added Title

Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (Radio program)

Research Call Number

*LDC 46558

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