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Fidelio opera in two acts (four scenes) in German

Title: Fidelio [sound recording] : opera in two acts (four scenes) in German / Ludwig van Beethoven ; libretto in German by Josef Sonnleithner and Georg Treitschke, from the French by J.N. Bouilly.
Author: Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827.

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Description

3 sound discs : digital, stereo; 4 3/4 in.

Donor/Sponsor

Gift of the Metropolitan Opera.

Series Statement

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of \Feb. 13, 1960
Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of \Feb. 13, 1960.

Uniform Title

Fidelio (1806)
Texaco's opera quiz (Radio program)
Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (Radio program)

Alternative Title

Fidelio (1806)

Subject

Operas

Note

Titles from Opera news.
Duration: 2:08:19 (opera) ; 1:01:49 (Synopses and features).
Production notes and official cast list (5 p.) filed under classmark: *LTCM 127(F).
Compact discs.
House program on file in Music Division.

Indexed In (note)

Opera news

Event (note)

Originally recorded in the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Feb. 13, 1960.

Source (note)

Metropolitan Opera;

Language (note)

Sung in German.

Contents

CD 1. Act 1 -- CD 2. Leonora Overture, no. 3 ; Act 2 ; Closing remarks (Milton Cross) -- CD 3. Pre-curtain feature (Boris Goldovsky and Birgit Nilsson discuss Fidelio) ; Synopsis of Act 1 (Cross) ; Texaco's opera quiz (Edward Downes questions Jay Harrison, Mary Ellis Peltz, Terry McEwen, and Antal Dorati) ; Synopsis of Act 2 (Cross).

Call Number

*LDC 32504 [CD].

OCLC

NYPG85-R327

Author

Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827.

Title

Fidelio [sound recording] : opera in two acts (four scenes) in German / Ludwig van Beethoven ; libretto in German by Josef Sonnleithner and Georg Treitschke, from the French by J.N. Bouilly.

Playing Time

020610

Series

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of \Feb. 13, 1960

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of \Feb. 13, 1960.

Performer

Birgit Nilsson (Leonore) ; Jon Vickers (Florestan) ; Hermann Uhde (Don Pizarro) ; Oskar Czerwenka (Rocco) ; Laurel Hurley (Marzelline) ; Charles Anthony (Jacquino) ; Giorgio Tozzi (Don Fernando) ; William Olvis (First Prisoner) ; Calvin Marsh (Second Prisoner) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; Karl Boehm, conductor; Milton Cross, broadcast announcer.

Indexed In:

Opera news, v. 24, no. 15 (Feb. 13, 1960).

Event

Originally recorded in the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Feb. 13, 1960.

Language

Sung in German.

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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. Commentator

Vickers, Jon. Performer

Uhde, Hermann, 1914-1965. Performer

Czerwenka, Oskar. Performer

Hurley, Laurel. Performer

Anthony, Charles, 1929-2012. Performer

Tozzi, Giorgio. Performer

Olvis, William. Performer

Marsh, Calvin.

Böhm, Karl, 1894-1981. Conductor

Goldovsky, Boris. Commentator

Downes, Edward, 1911- Commentator

Harrison, Jay. Commentator

Peltz, Mary Ellis, 1896-1981. Commentator

Dorati, Antal. Commentator

McEwen, Terry. Commentator

Cross, Milton, 1897-1975. Commentator

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

Added Title

Texaco's opera quiz (Radio program)

Added Title

Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (Radio program)

Research Call Number

*LDC 32504 [CD].

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