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Fidelio [sound recording] : opera in two acts ...

Title: Fidelio [sound recording] : opera in two acts ... / Ludwig van Beethoven ; libretto by Joseph Sonnleithner and Georg Treitschke from the French by J.N. Bouilly.
Author: Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827.

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Description

on 5 sides of 3 sound cassettes (177 min.) : analog, mono., Dolby-B processed.

Series Statement

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of 1966-01-22 (Jan. 22, 1966)]

Uniform Title

Fidelio (1814)
Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (Radio program)
Opera news on the air (Radio program)

Alternative Title

Fidelio (1814)

Subject

Operas

Note

Sung in German.
Title from house program ; series title from Opera news.
Durations: 0:41:45 (synopses and features) ; 2:14:45 (opera).
Production notes and official cast list (6 p.) on file in the Rodgers & Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound.

Indexed In (note)

Opera news,

Performer (note)

Birgit Nilsson (Leonora) ; James King (Florestan) ; Geraint Evans (Don Pizarro) ; Otto Edelmann (Rocco) ; Mary Ellen Pracht (Marzelline) ; Charles Anthony (Jacquino) ; Sherrill Milnes (Don Fernando) ; George Shirley (First prisoner) ; Russell Christopher (Second prisoner) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; Karl Böhm, conductor ; Milton Cross, broadcast announcer.

Event (note)

Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Jan. 22, 1966.

Contents

side 1. Introduction and synopsis of act 1 (Milton Cross) ; Opera news on the air (Edward Downes discusses Fidelio, with Alberta Masiello at the piano) ; Synopsis of act 2 (Cross) -- side 2. Blank -- side 3. Act 1 through March and entrance of Don Pizzaro -- side 4. Act 1 "Ha! welch ein Augenblick!" to conclusion -- side 5. Act 2, through "O namenlose Freude" -- side 6. Leonore Overture #3 ; Act 2, conclusion ; Closing remarks (Cross).

Call Number

*LTCM 233 (F)

Author

Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827.

Title

Fidelio [sound recording] : opera in two acts ... / Ludwig van Beethoven ; libretto by Joseph Sonnleithner and Georg Treitschke from the French by J.N. Bouilly.

Playing Time

004145 021445

Series

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of 1966-01-22 (Jan. 22, 1966)]

Cast

Birgit Nilsson (Leonora) ; James King (Florestan) ; Geraint Evans (Don Pizarro) ; Otto Edelmann (Rocco) ; Mary Ellen Pracht (Marzelline) ; Charles Anthony (Jacquino) ; Sherrill Milnes (Don Fernando) ; George Shirley (First prisoner) ; Russell Christopher (Second prisoner) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; Karl Böhm, conductor ; Milton Cross, broadcast announcer.

Indexed In:

Opera news, v. 30, no. 12 (Jan. 22, 1966).

Event

Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Jan. 22, 1966.

Original Version

Re-recorded at NYPL in Aug. 1986, from masters lent by the Metropolitan Opera (4 sound tape reels : 7 1/2 ips, 1 track, mono. ; 10 in.)

Added Author

Sonnleithner, Joseph Ferdinand, 1766-1835. Librettist

Treitschke, Georg Friedrich, 1776-1842. Librettist

Bouilly, J. N. (Jean Nicolas), 1763-1842. Léonore.

Nilsson, Birgit. Performer

King, James, 1925-2005. Performer

Evans, Geraint, Sir. Performer

Edelmann, Otto. Performer

Pracht, Mary Ellen. Performer

Anthony, Charles, 1929-2012. Performer

Milnes, Sherrill. Performer

Shirley, George. Performer

Christopher, Russell. Performer

Böhm, Karl, 1894-1981. Conductor

Cross, Milton, 1897-1975. Commentator

Downes, Edward, 1911- Commentator

Masiello, Alberta. Performer

Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827. Fidelio (1806). Ouverture.

Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.) Performer

Added Title

Opera news on the air (Radio program)

Metropolitan Opera Radio Broadcast collection.

Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (Radio program)

Research Call Number

*LTCM 233 (F) \(Production notes filed in listening room.)

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