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Tristan und Isolde music drama in three acts

Title: Tristan und Isolde [sound recording] : music drama in three acts / music and words by Richard Wagner.
Author: Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883.

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Description

4 sound tape reels (235 min.) : analog, 7 1/2 ips, 2 track, mono.; 10 in.

Series Statement

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Mar. 19, 1955]

Uniform Title

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

Subject

Operas

Genre/Form

Live sound recordings.

Note

Title from house program ; series title from Opera news.
Durations: 0:39:44 (synopses and features) ; 3:15:39 (opera).
Production notes and official cast list (5 p.) on file in the Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound.

Indexed In (note)

Opera news

Event (note)

Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Mar. 19, 1955.

Reproduction (note)

Service copy (4 sound cassettes : analog, mono., Dolby-B processed) available in: *LTCM 423 (F)

Language (note)

Sung in German.

Contents

side 1. Introduction and synopsis of act 1 (Milton Cross) ; Opera news on the air (Norman dello Joio, host, with Kirsten Flagstad and Edwin McArthur) ; Synopsis of act 2 (Cross) ; Texaco's opera quiz (Robert Lawrence, host, with Max Rudolf, Robert Bagar and Charles Kullman) ; Synopsis of act 3 (Cross) -- side 2. [blank] -- side 3. Prelude ; Act 1 through "Auf! Ihr Frauen!" -- side 4. Act 1 concluded -- side 5. Act 2 through "Rette dich, Tristan!" -- side 6. Act 2 concluded -- side 7. Act 3 through Scene 2 -- side 8. Act 3 concluded ; Closing remarks (Cross).

Call Number

*LT-10 6089

OCLC

NYPG90-R435

Author

Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883.

Title

Tristan und Isolde [sound recording] : music drama in three acts / music and words by Richard Wagner.

Playing Time

03944 019539

Series

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Mar. 19, 1955]

Performer

Set Svanholm (Tristan) ; Astrid Varnay (Isolde) ; Jerome Hines (King Marke) ; Josef Metternich (Kurvenal) ; Blanche Thebom (Brangaene) ; James McCracken (Melot) ; Calvin Marsh (Steersman) ; Paul Franke (A shepherd) ; Albert Da Costa (A sailor's voice) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; Rudolf Kempe, conductor ; Milton Cross, broaadcast announcer.

Original Version

Preservation tape, recorded at NYPL in Feb. 1990, from aluminum-based acetates (8 sound discs : analog, 33 1/3 rpm, mono. ; 16 in.) lent by the Metropolitan Opera.

Indexed In:

Opera news, v. 19, no. 19 (Mar. 14, 1955).

Event

Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Mar. 19, 1955.

Reproduction

Service copy (4 sound cassettes : analog, mono., Dolby-B processed) available in: *LTCM 423 (F)

Language

Sung in German.

Added Author

Svanholm, Set. Performer

Varnay, Astrid. Performer

Hines, Jerome, 1921- Performer

Metternich, Josef. Performer

Thebom, Blanche. Performer

McCracken, James, 1926- Performer

Marsh, Calvin. Performer

Franke, Paul, 1917-2011. Performer

Da Costa, Albert, 1927-1967. Performer

Kempe, Rudolf, 1910-1976. Conductor

Cross, Milton, 1897-1975. Commentator

Dello Joio, Norman, 1913-2008. Commentator

Flagstad, Kirsten, 1895-1962. Commentator

McArthur, Edwin. Commentator

Lawrence, Robert, 1912- Commentator

Rudolf, Max, 1902-1995. Commentator

Bagar, Robert C. Commentator

Kullman, Charles, 1903-1983. Commentator

Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.)

Added Title

Opera news on the air (Radio program)

Texaco's opera quiz (Radio program)

Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (Radio program)

Research Call Number

*LT-10 6089 Master tape. Request cassette service copy in *LTCM 423 (F)

*LTCM 423 (F) Cassette service copy; production notes on file. Master tape in *LT-10 6089.

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