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Werther opera in four acts

Title: Werther [sound recording] : opera in four acts / Jules Massenet ; libretto (after Goethe) by Edouard Blau, Georges Hartmann and Paul Milliet.
Author: Massenet, Jules, 1842-1912.

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Description

3 sound cassettes (195 min.) : stereo., Dolby-B processed.

Series Statement

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of \Mar. 4, 1972
Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of \Mar. 4, 1972.

Uniform Title

Werther
Opera news on the air (Radio program)
Texaco's opera quiz (Radio program)
Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (Radio program)

Alternative Title

Werther

Subject

Operas

Note

Sung in French.
Title from house program ; series title from Opera news.
Durations: 2:13:31 (opera) ; 1:01:30 (synopses and features).
Production notes and official cast list (6 p.) on file in the Rodgers and Hammerstein listening room.

Indexed In (note)

Opera news

Event (note)

Originally recorded in the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Mar. 4, 1972.

Contents

side 1. Introduction and synopsis of act 1 (Milton Cross) ; Opera news on the air: Brass players Melvin Broils, Clarendon Van Norman, Per Bervig, Herbert Wekselblatt, with Boris Goldovsky ; Synopsis of act 2 (Cross) -- side 2. Texaco's opera quiz: Edward Downes, Alfred Hubay, George Jellinek, Richard Mohr and William Weaver ; Synopses of acts 3 and 4 (Cross) -- side 3. Act 1 -- side 4. Act 2 -- side 5. Act 3 -- side 6. Act 4 ; Closing remarks (Cross).

Call Number

*LTCM 45 (F)

OCLC

NYPG84-R710

Author

Massenet, Jules, 1842-1912.

Title

Werther [sound recording] : opera in four acts / Jules Massenet ; libretto (after Goethe) by Edouard Blau, Georges Hartmann and Paul Milliet.

Playing Time

021331 010130

Series

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of \Mar. 4, 1972

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of \Mar. 4, 1972.

Performer

Franco Corelli (Werther) ; Dominic Cossa (Albert) ; Rosalind Elias (Charlotte) ; Donald Gramm (Justice of the Peace) ; Colette Boky (Sophie) ; Charles Anthony (Schmidt) ; Edna Lind (Kathchen) ; Richard Best (Johann) ; Luigi Marcella (Bruhlmann) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; Jan Behr, conductor, Milton Cross, broadcast announcer.

Original Version

Re-recorded at NYPL, Apr., 1984, from borrowed copies (3 sound tape reels : 7 1/2 ips, 2 track, stereo. ; 10 in.) of the original recording.

Indexed In:

Opera news, v. 36, no. 15 (Mar. 4, 1972).

Event

Originally recorded in the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Mar. 4, 1972.

Added Author

Blau, Edouard, 1836-1906. Librettist

Hartmann, Georges, -1900. Librettist

Milliet, Paul, 1858- Librettist

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832. Leiden des jungen Werthers.

Corelli, Franco. Performer

Cossa, Dominic. Performer

Elias, Rosalind. Performer

Gramm, Donald. Performer

Boky, Colette. Performer

Anthony, Charles, 1929-2012. Performer

Lind, Edna. Performer

Best, Richard, 1935- Performer

Marcella, Luigi. Performer

Behr, Jan. Conductor

Cross, Milton, 1897-1975. Commentator

Broiles, Mel. Commentator

Van Norman, Clarendon. Commentator

Brevig, Per. Commentator

Wekselblatt, Herbert. Commentator

Goldovsky, Boris. Commentator

Downes, Edward, 1911- Commentator

Hubay, Alfred. Commentator

Jellinek, George, 1919- Commentator

Mohr, Richard. Commentator

Weaver, William, 1923-2013, commentator.

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

Added Title

Opera news on the air (Radio program)

Texaco's opera quiz (Radio program)

Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (Radio program)

Research Call Number

*LTCM 45 (F) (Production notes filed in listening room.)

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