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Die Frau ohne Schatten opera in three acts

Title: Die Frau ohne Schatten [sound recording] : opera in three acts / music by Richard Strauss ; libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal.
Author: Strauss, Richard, 1864-1949.

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Description

4 sound discs (250 min.) : digital, stereo.; 4 3/4 in.

Donor/Sponsor

Gift of Metropolitan Opera.

Series Statement

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Dec. 9, 1989]

Uniform Title

Opera news on the air (Radio program)
Texaco's opera quiz (Radio program)
Met moments (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: 1:04:30 (synopses and features) ; 3:05:10 (opera).
Production notes and official cast list (4 p.) on file in the Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound.

Indexed In (note)

Opera news

Performer (note)

Helga Dernesch (The nurse) ; Franz Mazura (The messenger of Keikobad) ; Robert Schunk (The emperor) ; Johanna Meier (The empress) ; Kaaren Erickson (The falcon) ; Richard Fracker (The hunchback) ; Janis Martin (The dyer's wife) ; Russell Christopher (The one-eyed) ; Richard Vernon (The one-armed) ; James Courtney (Barak) ; Heidi Grant, Joyce Guyer, Sondra Kelly (Servants) ; Mark W. Baker (Apparition of a young man) ; Dawn Kotoski, Joyce Guyer, Loretta Di Franco, Ariel Bybee, Sondra Kelly, Claudia Catania (Voices of the unborn) ; Charles Anthony, Philip Cokorinos, Motti Kaston (Watchmen) ; Gweneth Bean (A voice from above) ; Heidi Grant (The guardian of the threshold) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; Christof Perick, conductor ; Peter Allen, broadcast announcer.

Event (note)

Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Dec. 9, 1989.

Reproduction (note)

Preservation copy (3 sound cassettes : stereo, Dolby-B processed) in: *LTCM 557 (F)

Language (note)

Sung in German.

Contents

CD 1. Introduction and synopsis of Act 1 (Peter Allen) ; Act 1 -- CD 2. Act 2 -- CD 3. Act 3 ; Closing remarks (Allen) -- CD 4. Hugh Southern and James Kennir ; Opera news on the air (M. Owen Lee) ; Samuel Ramey ; Synopsis of Act 2 (Allen) ; Met moments (Boris Goldovsky, host, with Ezio Pinza) ; Texaco's opera quiz (Edward Downes, host, with George Jellinek, M. Owen Lee and Terrence McNally) ; Samuel Ramey ; Synopsis of Act 3 (Allen).

Call Number

*LDC 28834

OCLC

NYPG92-R339

Author

Strauss, Richard, 1864-1949.

Title

Die Frau ohne Schatten [sound recording] : opera in three acts / music by Richard Strauss ; libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal.

Playing Time

010430 030510

Series

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Dec. 9, 1989]

Cast

Helga Dernesch (The nurse) ; Franz Mazura (The messenger of Keikobad) ; Robert Schunk (The emperor) ; Johanna Meier (The empress) ; Kaaren Erickson (The falcon) ; Richard Fracker (The hunchback) ; Janis Martin (The dyer's wife) ; Russell Christopher (The one-eyed) ; Richard Vernon (The one-armed) ; James Courtney (Barak) ; Heidi Grant, Joyce Guyer, Sondra Kelly (Servants) ; Mark W. Baker (Apparition of a young man) ; Dawn Kotoski, Joyce Guyer, Loretta Di Franco, Ariel Bybee, Sondra Kelly, Claudia Catania (Voices of the unborn) ; Charles Anthony, Philip Cokorinos, Motti Kaston (Watchmen) ; Gweneth Bean (A voice from above) ; Heidi Grant (The guardian of the threshold) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; Christof Perick, conductor ; Peter Allen, broadcast announcer.

Original Version

Re-recorded at NYPL in Feb. 1992, from borrowed masters (3 sound tape reels : 7 1/2 ips, 2 track, stereo ; 10 in.) lent by the Metropolitan Opera.

Indexed In:

Opera news, v. 54, no. 6 (Dec. 9, 1989).

Event

Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Dec. 9, 1989.

Reproduction

Preservation copy (3 sound cassettes : stereo, Dolby-B processed) in: *LTCM 557 (F)

Language

Sung in German.

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Added Author

Hofmannsthal, Hugo von, 1874-1929. Librettist

Dernesch, Helga. Performer

Mazura, Franz. Performer

Schunk, Robert. Performer

Meier, Johanna. Performer

Erickson, Kaaren. Performer

Fracker, Richard. Performer

Christopher, Russell. Performer

Vernon, Richard, 1950- Performer

Martin, Janis. Performer

Courtney, James, 1946- performer

Grant Murphy, Heidi. Performer

Guyer, Joyce. Performer

Kelly, Sondra. Performer

Baker, Mark (Tenor) Performer

Kotoski, Dawn. Performer

Di Franco, Loretta. Performer

Bybee, Ariel. Performer

Catania, Claudia. Performer

Anthony, Charles, 1929-2012. Performer

Kaston, Motti. Performer

Cokorinos, Philip. Performer

Bean, Gweneth. Performer

Perick, Christof. Conductor

Allen, Peter, 1920- Commentator

Ramey, Samuel. Commentator

Southern, Hugh. Commentator

Kennir, James W. Commentator

Lee, M. Owen, 1930-2019. Commentator

Downes, Edward, 1911- Commentator

Jellinek, George, 1919- Commentator

McNally, Terrence. Commentator

Goldovsky, Boris. Commentator

Pinza, Ezio. Commentator

Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.)

Added Title

Opera news on the air (Radio program)

Texaco's opera quiz (Radio program)

Met moments (Radio program)

Added Title

Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (Radio program)

Research Call Number

*LDC 28834 Service copy

*LTCM 557 (F) Preservation copy. (Production notes in listening room.) Use service copy in *LDC 28834

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