side 1. Introduction and synopsis of act 1 (Milton Cross) ; Opera news on the air (Boris Goldovsky, host, with Rose Bampton and Charles Kullman) ; Lowell Wadmond ; Synopsis of act 2 (Cross) -- side 2. Texaco's opera quiz (Robert Lawrence, host, with Deems Taylor, Sigmund Spaeth, Robert Bagar and George Marek) ; Synopsis of act 3 (Cross) -- side 3. Prelude ; Act 1 through "Durch mitleid wissend, der reine Thor" -- side 4. "Du Könntest morden" through "Wein und Brot" -- side 5. Act 1 concluded ; Act 2 through "Amfortas" -- side 6. Act 2 concluded -- side 7. Act 3 through "Nicht so!" -- side 8. Act 3 concluded ; Closing remarks (Cross).
Call number
*LT-10 5557
Note
Title from house program ; series title from Opera news.
Durations: 0:59:02 (synopses and features) ; 3:58:03 (opera).
Production notes and official cast list (5 p.) on file in the Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound.
Indexed in (note)
Opera news
Performer (note)
George London (Amfortas) ; Lubomir Vichegonov (Titurel) ; Hans Hotter (Gurnemanz) ; Set Svanholm (Parsifal) ; Lawrence Davidson (Klingsor) ; Astrid Varnay (Kundry) ; Jean Madeira (A voice) ; James McCracken (First knight) ; Osie Hawkins (Second knight) ; Genevieve Warner (First esquire) ; Mildred Miller (Second esquire) ; Paul Franke (Third esquire) ; Gabor Carelli (Fourth esquire) ; Lucine Amara, Maria Leone, Herta Glaz, Heidi Krall, Jean Fenn, Margaret Roggero (Flower maidens) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; Fritz Stiedry, conductor ; Milton Cross, broadcast announcer.
Event (note)
Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Apr. 17, 1954.
Reproduction (note)
Service copy (4 sound cassettes : analog, mono., Dolby-B processed) available in: *LTCM 407 (F)
Language (note)
Sung in German.
Author
Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883.
Title
Parsifal [sound recording] : opera in three acts / music and libretto by Richard Wagner.
Playing time
005902 035803
Series
Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Apr. 17, 1954]
Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Apr. 17, 1954]
Cast
George London (Amfortas) ; Lubomir Vichegonov (Titurel) ; Hans Hotter (Gurnemanz) ; Set Svanholm (Parsifal) ; Lawrence Davidson (Klingsor) ; Astrid Varnay (Kundry) ; Jean Madeira (A voice) ; James McCracken (First knight) ; Osie Hawkins (Second knight) ; Genevieve Warner (First esquire) ; Mildred Miller (Second esquire) ; Paul Franke (Third esquire) ; Gabor Carelli (Fourth esquire) ; Lucine Amara, Maria Leone, Herta Glaz, Heidi Krall, Jean Fenn, Margaret Roggero (Flower maidens) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; Fritz Stiedry, conductor ; Milton Cross, broadcast announcer.
Original version
Preservation tape, recorded at NYPL in Mar. 1990, from aluminum-based acetates (10 sound discs : analog, 33 1/3 rpm, mono. ; 16 in.) lent by the Metropolitan Opera.
Indexed in:
Opera news, v. 18, no. 23 (Apr. 12, 1954).
Event
Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Apr. 17, 1954.
Reproduction
Service copy (4 sound cassettes : analog, mono., Dolby-B processed) available in: *LTCM 407 (F)
Language
Sung in German.
Added author
London, George, 1920-1985. Performer
Vichegonov, Lubomir. Performer
Hotter, Hans. Performer
Svanholm, Set. Performer
Davidson, Lawrence (Baritone)
Varnay, Astrid. Performer
Madeira, Jean. Performer
McCracken, James, 1926-1988, singer.
Hawkins, Osie. Performer
Warner, Genevieve. Performer
Miller, Mildred, 1924- Performer
Franke, Paul, 1917-2011. Performer
Carelli, Gabor. Performer
Amara, Lucine. Performer
Leone, Maria (Soprano)
Glaz, Herta, 1908-2006, singer.
Fenn, Jean. Performer
Roggero, Margaret. Performer
Krall, Heidi. Performer
Stiedry, Fritz. Conductor
Cross, Milton, 1897-1975. Commentator
Wadmond, Lowell. Commentator
Goldovsky, Boris. Commentator
Bampton, Rose. Commentator
Kullman, Charles, 1903-1983. Commentator
Lawrence, Robert, 1912-1981, commentator.
Spaeth, Sigmund, 1885-1965. Commentator
Taylor, Deems, 1885-1966. Commentator
Bagar, Robert C. Commentator
Marek, George R. (George Richard), 1902-1987. 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
*LT-10 5557 Master tape. Request cassette service copy in *LTCM 407 (F)
*LTCM 407 (F) Cassette service copy; production notes on file. Master tape in *LT-10 5557.