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Götterdämmerung music drama in three acts... and prologue from the trilogy Der Ring des Nibelungen

Title: Götterdämmerung [sound recording] : music drama in three acts... and prologue from the trilogy Der Ring des Nibelungen / Richard Wagner.
Author: Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883.

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Description

4 sound cassettes (276 min.) : analog, mono., Dolby-B processed.

Series Statement

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of \Dec. 14, 1963
Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of \Dec. 14, 1963.

Uniform Title

Ring des Nibelungen. Götterdämmerung
Opera news on the air (Radio program)
Texaco's opera quiz (Radio program)
Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (Radio program)

Alternative Title

Ring des Nibelungen. Götterdämmerung

Subjects

Note

Titles from Opera news.
Durations: 0:53:40 (synopses and features) ; 3:42:15 (opera).
Production notes and official cast list (7 p.) on file in the Rodgers & Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound.

Indexed In (note)

Opera news

Event (note)

Originally broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Dec. 14, 1966.

Language (note)

Sung in German.

Contents

side 1. Introduction and synopsis of prologue and act 1 (Milton Cross) ; Opera news on the air (Edward Downes interviews Birgit Nilsson) ; Synopsis of act 2 (Cross) ; Texaco's opera quiz, beginning (Edward Downes, host, with Siegmund Levarie, Sigmund Spaeth, Paul Jaretzki and Richard Woitach) -- side 2. Opera quiz, conclusion ; Synopsis of act 3 (Cross) ; Prologue -- side 3. Act 1, scenes 1-2 -- side 4. Act 1, scene 3 -- side 5. Act 2, scenes 1-4 -- side 6. Act 2, scene 5 -- side 7. Act 3 to scene 2 "Brünhild' bietet mir Gruss!" -- side 8. Act 3, Funeral music to conclusion ; Closing remarks (Cross).

Call Number

*LTCM 187 (F)

OCLC

NYPG86-R1

Author

Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883.

Title

Götterdämmerung [sound recording] : music drama in three acts... and prologue from the trilogy Der Ring des Nibelungen / Richard Wagner.

Playing Time

005340 034215

Series

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of \Dec. 14, 1963

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of \Dec. 14, 1963.

Performer

Birgit Nilsson (Brünnhilde) ; Hans Hopf (Siegfried) ; Ernst Wiemann (Hagen) ; Norman Mittelmann (Gunther) ; Mary Curtis-Verna (Gutrune, Third Norn) ; Gerhard Pechner (Alberich) ; Mignon Dunn (Waltraute, Second Norn) ; Lili Chookasian (First Norn) ; Mary Ellen Pracht (Woglinde) ; Rosalind Elias (Wellgunde) ; Gladys Kriese (Flosshilde) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; Joseph Rosenstock, conductor ; Milton Cross, broadcast announcer.

Original Version

Re-recorded at NYPL in Oct. 1985, from borrowed masters (6 sound tape reels : 7 1/2 ips, 1 track, mono. ; 10 in.).

Indexed In:

Opera news, v. 28, no. 5 (Dec. 14, 1963).

Event

Originally broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Dec. 14, 1966.

Language

Sung in German.

Added Author

Nilsson, Birgit. Performer

Hopf, Hans. Performer

Wiemann, Ernst. Performer

Mittelmann, Norman. Performer

Curtis-Verna, Maria, 1926- Performer

Pechner, Gerhard. Performer

Dunn, Mignon. Performer

Chookasian, Lili. Performer

Pracht, Mary Ellen. Performer

Elias, Rosalind. Performer

Kriese, Gladys. Performer

Rosenstock, Joseph, 1895-1985. Conductor

Cross, Milton, 1897-1975. Commentator

Downes, Edward, 1911- Commentator

Levarie, Siegmund, 1914- Commentator

Spaeth, Sigmund, 1885-1965. Commentator

Jaretzki, Paul. Commentator

Woitach, Richard. 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

*LTCM 187 (F) (Production notes in listening room.)

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