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

Alternative Title

Fidelio (1814)

Subjects

Genre/Form

Live sound recordings.

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)

OCLC

NYPG87-R8

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 Broadcast (Radio program)

Research Call Number

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

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