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Wozzeck opera in three acts, performed without intermission

Title: Wozzeck [sound recording] : opera in three acts, performed without intermission / music by Alban Berg, based on the work by Georg Büchner.
Author: Berg, Alban, 1885-1935.

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Description

2 sound cassettes (117 min.) : stereo, Dolby-B processed.

Series Statement

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Mar. 8, 1980]

Uniform Title

Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (Radio program)

Subjects

Genre/Form

Live sound recordings.

Note

Title from house program ; series title from Opera news.
Durations: 0:15:07 (synopses and features) ; 1:42:52 (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

Performer (note)

Ragnar Ulfung (The captain) ; José van Dam (Wozzeck) ; Jon Garrison (Andres) ; Anja Silja (Marie) ; Isola Jones (Margret) ; Dieter Weller (Doctor) ; Richard Cassilly (Drum major) ; James Courtney (First apprentice) ; Russell Christopher (Second apprentice) ; Andrea Velis (Fool) ; Emil Filip (Soldier) ; Robert Kelly (A townsman) ; Christopher Byars (Marie's child) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; James Levine, conductor ; Peter Allen, broadcast announcer.

Event (note)

Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Mar. 8, 1980.

Reproduction (note)

Service copy (2 sound cassettes : stereo, Dolby-B processed) available in: *LTCM 638 (F)

Language (note)

Sung in German.

Contents

side 1. Introduction and synopsis of Wozzeck (Peter Allen) -- side 2. Act 1 -- side 3. Act 2 -- side 4. Act 3 ; Closing remarks (Allen).

Call Number

*LTCM 638 (F)

OCLC

NYPG92-R1974

Author

Berg, Alban, 1885-1935.

Title

Wozzeck [sound recording] : opera in three acts, performed without intermission / music by Alban Berg, based on the work by Georg Büchner.

Playing Time

001507 014252

Series

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Mar. 8, 1980]

Cast

Ragnar Ulfung (The captain) ; José van Dam (Wozzeck) ; Jon Garrison (Andres) ; Anja Silja (Marie) ; Isola Jones (Margret) ; Dieter Weller (Doctor) ; Richard Cassilly (Drum major) ; James Courtney (First apprentice) ; Russell Christopher (Second apprentice) ; Andrea Velis (Fool) ; Emil Filip (Soldier) ; Robert Kelly (A townsman) ; Christopher Byars (Marie's child) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; James Levine, conductor ; Peter Allen, broadcast announcer.

Original Version

Re-recorded at NYPL in Oct. 1992, from borrowed masters (2 sound tape reels : 7 1/2 ips, 2 track, stereo ; 10 in.) lent by the Metropolitan Opera.

Indexed In:

Opera news, v. 44, no. 15 (Mar. 8, 1980).

Event

Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Mar. 8, 1980.

Reproduction

Service copy (2 sound cassettes : stereo, Dolby-B processed) available in: *LTCM 638 (F)

Language

Sung in German.

Added Author

Büchner, Georg, 1813-1837. Wozzeck.

Ulfung, Ragnar, 1927- Performer

Dam, José van. Performer

Garrison, Jon. Performer

Silja, Anja. Performer

Jones, Isola. Performer

Weller, Dieter. Performer

Cassilly, Richard, 1927- Performer

Courtney, James, 1946- performer

Christopher, Russell. Performer

Velis, Andrea, 1932-1994. Performer

Filip, Emil. Performer

Kelly, Robert. Performer

Byars, Christopher. Performer

Levine, James, 1943-2021. Conductor

Allen, Peter, 1920- Commentator

Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.)

Added Title

Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (Radio program)

Research Call Number

*LTCM 638 (F) (Production notes on file in listening room.)

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