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Siegfried music drama in three acts (four scenes) from the trilogy Der Ring des Nibelungen

Title: Siegfried [sound recording] : music drama in three acts (four scenes) from the trilogy Der Ring des Nibelungen / music and libretto by Richard Wagner.
Author: Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883.

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Description

4 sound cassettes (282 min.) : analog, mono., Dolby-B processed.

Series Statement

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of \Jan. 13, 1962
Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of \Jan. 13, 1962.

Uniform Title

Ring des Nibelungen. Siegfried
Opera news on the air (Radio program)
Texaco's opera quiz (Radio program)
Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (Radio program)

Alternative Title

Ring des Nibelungen. Siegfried

Subject

Operas

Note

Titles from Opera news.
Durations: 0:49:25 (synopses and features) ; 3:52:20 (opera).
With production notes and official cast list (7 p.).

Indexed In (note)

Opera news

Event (note)

Originally recorded in the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Jan. 13, 1962.

Language (note)

Sung in German.

Contents

side 1. Introduction and synopsis of act 1 (Milton Cross) ; Opera news on the air (Boris Goldovsky, Irene Dalis and Jerome Hines discuss Siegfried) ; Synopsis of act 2 (Cross) -- side 2. Texaco's opera quiz (Edward Downes, host, with Alfred Frankenstein, Albert Goldberg, Jay Harrison and Irving Kolodin) ; Synopsis of act 3 (Cross) -- side 3. act 1 to "D'rum frische dir, Mime, den Muth!" -- side 4. act 1, conclusion -- side 5. act 2 to "Er schweigt ... so Schwatz' ich denn los!" -- side 6. Act 2, conclusion -- side 7. Act 3 to "So saug' ich mir ... Sollt' ich auch sterbend vergeh'n!" -- side 8. Act 3, conclusion ; Closing remarks (Cross)

Call Number

*LTCM 151 (F)

OCLC

NYPG85-R394

Author

Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883.

Title

Siegfried [sound recording] : music drama in three acts (four scenes) from the trilogy Der Ring des Nibelungen / music and libretto by Richard Wagner.

Playing Time

004925 035220

Series

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of \Jan. 13, 1962

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of \Jan. 13, 1962.

Performer

Hans Hopf (Siegfried) ; Birgit Nilsson (Brünnhilde) ; George London (Wanderer) ; Paul Kuen (Mime) ; Ralph Herbert (Alberich) ; Gottlob Frick (Fafner) ; Jean Madeira (Erda) ; Martina Arroyo (Voice of the forest bird) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; Erich Leinsdorf, conductor ; Milton Cross, broadcast announcer.

Original Version

Re-recorded at NYPL in July 1985, from borrowed masters (5 sound tape reels : 7 1/2 ips, 1 track, mono. ; 10 in.).

Indexed In:

Opera news, v. 26, no. 9 (Jan. 13, 1962).

Event

Originally recorded in the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Jan. 13, 1962.

Language

Sung in German.

Added Author

Hopf, Hans. Performer

Nilsson, Birgit. Performer

London, George, 1920-1985. Performer

Kuen, Paul, 1910-1997. Performer

Herbert, Ralph. Performer

Frick, Gottlob, 1906-1994. Performer

Madeira, Jean. Performer

Arroyo, Martina. Performer

Leinsdorf, Erich, 1912-1993. Conductor

Cross, Milton, 1897-1975. Commentator

Goldovsky, Boris. Commentator

Dalis, Irene. Commentator

Hines, Jerome, 1921-

Downes, Edward, 1911- Commentator

Frankenstein, Alfred V. (Alfred Victor), 1906-1981. Commentator

Goldberg, Albert. Commentator

Harrison, Jay. Commentator

Kolodin, Irving, 1908- 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

*LTCM 151 (F) (Production notes in listening room.)

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