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Das Rheingold music drama in four scenes

Title: Das Rheingold [sound recording] : music drama in four scenes / Richard Wagner.
Author: Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883.

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Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.	Audio	Use in library	*LDC 34063 [CD. Service copy]	Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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Description

3 sound discs (180 min.) : digital, mono.; 4 3/4 in.

Donor/Sponsor

Gift of the Metropolitan Opera.

Series Statement

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of \Jan. 26, 1957\570126\]

Uniform Title

Ring des Nibelungen. Rheingold
Opera news on the air (Radio program)
Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (Radio program)

Alternative Title

Ring des Nibelungen. Rheingold

Subjects

Note

Sung in German.
Durations: 0:31:46 (synopses and features) ; 2:28:14 (opera).
Compact discs.
Production notes and official cast list (4 p.) filed under classmark: *LTCM 72 (F).
House program on file in Music Division.

Indexed In (note)

Opera news

Event (note)

Originally recorded in the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Jan. 26, 1957.

Reproduction (note)

Cassette copy (2 sound cassettes : analog, mono., Dolby-B processed) available in: *LTCM 72 (F).

Source (note)

Metropolitan Opera;

Contents

CD 1. Opera, part 1 -- CD 2. Opera, part 2 ; Closing remarks (Milton Cross) -- CD 3. Introduction and Synopsis of Opera (Cross) ; Opera news on the air: Boris Goldovsky, Martha Lipton and Burt MacBride discuss Das Rheingold ; Mrs. August Belmont reminisces about Toscanini.

Call Number

*LDC 34063

OCLC

NYPG84-R1076

Author

Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883.

Title

Das Rheingold [sound recording] : music drama in four scenes / Richard Wagner.

Playing Time

003146 022814

Series

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of \Jan. 26, 1957\570126\]

Performer

Hermann Uhde (Wotan) ; Arthur Budney (Donner) ; James McCracken (Froh) ; Ramon Vinay (Loge) ; Lawrence Davidson (Alberich) ; Norman Kelley (Mime) ; Kurt Boehme (Fasolt) ; Dezso Ernster (Fafner) ; Blanche Thebom (Fricka) ; Mariquita Moll (Freia) ; Jean Madeira (Erda) ; Heidi Krall (Woglinde) ; Rosalind Elias (Wellgunde) ; Sandra Warfield (Folsshilde) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; Fritz Stiedry, conductor ; Milton Cross, broadcast announcer.

Indexed In:

Opera news, v. 21, no. 11 (Jan. 21, 1957).

Event

Originally recorded in the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Jan. 26, 1957.

Original Version

Cassette tapes re-recorded at NYPL, Aug., 1984, from borrowed copies (3 sound tape reels : 7 1/2 ips, 1 track, mono. ; 10 in.) of the original recording.

Reproduction

Cassette copy (2 sound cassettes : analog, mono., Dolby-B processed) available in: *LTCM 72 (F).

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Added Author

Uhde, Hermann, 1914-1965. Performer

Budney, Arthur. Performer

McCracken, James, 1926- Performer

Vinay, Ramon. Performer

Davidson, Lawrence. Performer

Kelley, Norman. Performer

Böhme, Kurt, 1908- Performer

Ernster, Dezsó. Performer

Thebom, Blanche. Performer

Moll, Mariquita. Performer

Madeira, Jean. Performer

Krall, Heidi. Performer

Elias, Rosalind. Performer

Warfield, Sandra. Performer

Stiedry, Fritz. Conductor

Cross, Milton, 1897-1975. Commentator

Goldovsky, Boris. Commentator

Lipton, Martha. Commentator

MacBride, Burt. Commentator

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

Added Title

Opera news on the air (Radio program)

Added Title

Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (Radio program)

Research Call Number

*LDC 34063 Service copy.

*LTCM 72 (F) Cassette copy; production notes on file. Request service copy in *LDC 34063.

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