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Lohengrin opera in three acts

Title: Lohengrin [sound recording] : opera in three acts / 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 34025 [CD. Service copy]	Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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Description

4 sound discs (240 min.) : digital, mono.; 4 3/4 in.

Donor/Sponsor

Gift of the Metropolitan Opera.

Series Statement

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of \Jan. 31, 1959\590131\]

Uniform Title

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

Alternative Title

Lohengrin

Subjects

Note

Sung in German.
Durations: 0:55:05 (synopses and features) ; 3:04:19 (opera).
Compact discs.
Production notes and official cast list (6 p.) filed under classmark: *LTCM 102 (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. 31, 1959.

Reproduction (note)

Cassette copy (4 sound cassettes : analog, mono., Dolby-B processed ) available IN: *LTCM 102 (F).

Source (note)

Metropolitan Opera;

Contents

CD 1. Introduction and synopsis of Act 1 (Milton Cross) ; Act 1 -- CD 2. Act 2 -- CD 3. Act 3 ; Closing remarks (Cross) -- CD 4. Opera news on the air: Boris Goldovsky and Norman Dello Joio analyse Lohengrin ; Synopsis of Act 2 (Cross) ; Texaco's opera quiz: Edward Downes, Jay Harrison, George Marek, Walter Price and Albert Goldberg ; Synopsis of Act 3 (Cross).

Call Number

*LDC 34025

OCLC

NYPG85-R23

Author

Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883.

Title

Lohengrin [sound recording] : opera in three acts / Richard Wagner.

Playing Time

005505 030419

Series

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of \Jan. 31, 1959\590131\]

Performer

Brian Sullivan (Lohengrin) ; Lisa Della Casa (Elsa) ; Margaret Harshaw (Ortrud) ; Walter Cassel (Telramund) ; Otto Edelmann (King Henry) ; Mario Sereni (herald) ; Giulio Mollica, Arnold Knight, Arthur Backgren, Walter Hemmerly (Four nobles) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; Thomas Schippers, conductor ; Milton Cross, broadcast announcer.

Indexed In:

Opera news, v. 23, no. 13 (Jan. 26, 1959).

Event

Originally recorded in the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Jan. 31, 1959.

Original Version

Cassette tapes re-recorded at NYPL, Jan., 1959, from borrowed masters (4 sound tape reels : 7 1/2 ips, 1 track, mono. ; 10 in.)

Reproduction

Cassette copy (4 sound cassettes : analog, mono., Dolby-B processed ) available IN: *LTCM 102 (F).

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Request Access to Music Division Audio and Moving Image material

Added Author

Sullivan, Brian, 1919-1969. Performer

Della Casa, Lisa. Performer

Harshaw, Margaret. Performer

Cassel, Walter. Performer

Edelmann, Otto. Performer

Sereni, Mario. Performer

Mollica, Giulio. Performer

Knight Arnold. Performer

Backgren, Arthur. Performer

Hemmerly, Walter. Performer

Schippers, Thomas. Conductor

Goldovsky, Boris. Commentator

Dello Joio, Norman, 1913-2008. Commentator

Downes, Edward, 1911- Commentator

Harrison, Jay. Commentator

Marek, George R. (George Richard), 1902-1987. Commentator

Big Walter. Commentator

Goldberg, Albert. Commentator

Cross, Milton, 1897-1975. Commentator

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

Added Title

Opera news on the air (Radio program)

Texaco's opera quiz (Radio program)

Added Title

Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (Radio program)

Research Call Number

*LDC 34025 Service copy.

*LTCM 102 (F) Cassette copy; production notes on file. Request service copy in *LDC 34025.

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