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Wozzeck opera in three acts

Title: Wozzeck [sound recording] : opera in three acts / words and music by Alban Berg, from the drama by Georg Büchner ; English text by Vida Harford and Eric Blackall.
Author: Berg, Alban, 1885-1935.

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Description

on 5 sides of 3 sound cassettes (163 min.) : mono., Dolby-B processed.

Series Statement

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of \Apr. 8, 1961
Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of \Apr. 8, 1961.

Uniform Title

Texaco's opera quiz (Radio program)
Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (Radio program)

Subject

Operas

Note

Title from house program ; series title from Opera news.
Durations: 1:07:10 (synopses and features) 1
Production notes and official cast list (6 p.) in Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives.

Indexed In (note)

Opera news

Event (note)

Originally recorded in the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Apr. 8 1961.

Language (note)

Sung in English.

Contents

side 1. Introduction and synopsis of act 1 (Milton Cross) ; Opera news on the air: Boris Goldovsky discusses Wozzeck ; Synopsis of act 2 (Cross) -- side 2. Texaco's opera quiz: Edward Downes, John Rosenfield, Robert Lawrence, Terry McEwen and Richard Woitach ; Synopsis of act 3 ; Mrs. F.K. Weyerhauser and Howard J. Hook, Jr. present Met Audition winners Francesco Roberto and George Shirley ; Closing remarks (Cross) -- side 3. Act 1 -- side 4. Act 2 -- side 5. Act 3.

Call Number

*LTCM 144 (F)

OCLC

NYPG85-R344

Author

Berg, Alban, 1885-1935.

Title

Wozzeck [sound recording] : opera in three acts / words and music by Alban Berg, from the drama by Georg Büchner ; English text by Vida Harford and Eric Blackall.

Playing Time

010710 013610

Series

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of \Apr. 8, 1961

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of \Apr. 8, 1961.

Performer

Hermann Uhde (Wozzeck) ; Ralph Herbert (Doctor) ; Paul Franke (Captain) ; Eleanor Steber (Marie) ; Charles Anthony (Andres) ; Kurt Baum (Drum major) ; Ezio Flagello (First apprentice) ; Calvin Marsh (Second apprentice) Alessio De Paolis (Fool) ; Earl Ringland (Soldier) ; Charlers Kuestner (Townsman) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; Karl Böhm, conductor ; Milton Cross, broadcast announcer.

Original Version

Re-recorded at NYPL, May 1985, from borrowed masters (3 sound tape reels : 7 1/2 ips, 1 track, mono. ; 10 in.).

Indexed In:

Opera news, v. 25, no. 22 (Apr. 8, 1961).

Event

Originally recorded in the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Apr. 8 1961.

Language

Sung in English.

Added Author

Harford, Vida. Translator

Blackall, Eric. Translator

Büchner, Georg, 1813-1837. Woyzeck.

Uhde, Hermann, 1914-1965. Performer

Herbert, Ralph. Performer

Franke, Paul, 1917-2011. Performer

Steber, Eleanor. Performer

Anthony, Charles, 1929-2012. Performer

Baum, Kurt, 1900-1989. Performer

Roggero, Margaret. Performer

Cooke, Thomas. Performer

Flagello, Ezio. Performer

Marsh, Calvin. Performer

De Paolis, Alessio. Performer

Ringland, Earl. Performer

Kuestner, Charles. Performer

Böhm, Karl, 1894-1981. Conductor

Cross, Milton, 1897-1975. Commentator

Downes, Edward, 1911- Commentator

Rosenfield, John. Commentator

Lawrence, Robert, 1912- Commentator

McEwen, Terry. Commentator

Woitach, Richard. Commentator

Weyerhauser, Vivian. Commentator

Hook, Howard J., Jr. Commentator

Roberts, Francesco. Commentator

Shirley, George. Commentator

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

Added Title

Texaco's opera quiz (Radio program)

Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (Radio program)

Research Call Number

*LTCM 144 (F) (Production notes in listening room.)

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