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Götterdämmerung music drama in three acts and a prologue from the trilogy, Der Ring des Nibelungen

Title: Götterdämmerung [sound recording] : music drama in three acts and a prologue 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 (305 min.) : analog, mono., Dolby-B processed.

Series Statement

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of \Jan. 27, 1962
Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of \Jan. 27, 1962.

Uniform Title

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

Alternative Title

Ring des Nibelungen. Götterdämmerung

Subject

Operas

Note

Titles from Opera news.
Durations: 0:43:40 (synopses and features) ; 4:21:05 (opera).
Production notes and official cast list (7 p.) on file in the Rodgers & Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound.

Indexed In (note)

Opera news

Event (note)

Originally recorded in the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Jan. 27, 1962.

Language (note)

Sung in German.

Contents

side 1. Introduction and synopsis of act 1 (Milton Cross) ; Opera news on the air (Boris Goldovsky and Robert Lawrence analyze Götterdämmerung) ; Synopsis of act 2 (Cross) ; Texaco's opera quiz (Edward Downes, host, with Walter Ducloux, Victor Trucco and Paul Jaretzki) ; synopsis of act 3 (Cross) -- side 2. Prologue -- side 3. Act 1, scenes 1-2 -- side 4. Act 1, scene 3 -- side 5. Act 2, scenes 1-4 -- side 6. Act 2, scene 5 -- side 7. Act 3 to Brünnhild' bietet mir Gruss! -- side 8. Act 3, Funeral music to conclusion ; Closing remarks (Cross).

Call Number

*LTCM 153 (F)

OCLC

NYPG85-R396

Author

Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883.

Title

Götterdämmerung [sound recording] : music drama in three acts and a prologue from the trilogy, Der Ring des Nibelungen / music and libretto by Richard Wagner.

Playing Time

004340 042105

Series

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of \Jan. 27, 1962

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of \Jan. 27, 1962.

Performer

Hans Hopf (Siegfried) ; Birgit Nilsson (Brünnhilde) ; Norman Mittelmann (Gunther) ; Gottlob Frick (Hagen) ; Gladys Kuchta (Gutrune) ; Jean Madeira (First Norn) ; Irene Dalis (Second Norn, Waltraute) ; Martina Arroyo (Third Nord, Woglinde) ; Rosalind Elias (Wellgunde) ; Mignon Dunn (Flosshilde) ; Ralph Herbert (Alberich) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; Erich Leinsdorf, conductor ; Milton Cross, broadcast announcer.

Original Version

Re-recorded at NYPL in July 1985, from borrowed masters (6 sound tape reels : 7 1/2 ips, 1 track, mono. ; 10 in.).

Indexed In:

Opera news, v. 26, no. 11 (Jan. 27, 1962).

Event

Originally recorded in the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Jan. 27, 1962.

Language

Sung in German.

Added Author

Hopf, Hans. Performer

Nilsson, Birgit. Performer

Mittelmann, Norman. Performer

Frick, Gottlob, 1906-1994. Performer

Kuchta, Gladys. Performer

Madeira, Jean. Performer

Dalis, Irene. Performer

Arroyo, Martina. Performer

Elias, Rosalind. Performer

Dunn, Mignon. Performer

Herbert, Ralph. Performer

Leinsdorf, Erich, 1912-1993. Conductor

Cross, Milton, 1897-1975. Commentator

Goldovsky, Boris. Commentator

Lawrence, Robert, 1912- Commentator

Downes, Edward, 1911- Commentator

Ducloux, Walter. Commentator

Trucco, Victor. Commentator

Jaretzki, Paul. 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 153 (F) Production notes on file.

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