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Der fliegende Hollaender opera in three acts

Title: Der fliegende Hollaender [sound recording] : opera in three acts / music and libretto by Richard Wagner.
Author: Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883.

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Description

4 sound tape reels (184 min.) : analog, 7 1/2 ips, 2 track, mono.; 10 in.

Series Statement

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Dec. 30, 1950]

Uniform Title

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

Alternative Title

Fliegende Holländer

Subject

Operas

Genre/Form

Live sound recordings.

Note

Title from house program ; series title from Opera news.
Durations: 0:45:28 (synopses and features) ; 2:18:46 (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

Event (note)

Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Dec. 30, 1950.

Reproduction (note)

Service copy (3 sound cassettes : analog, mono., Dolby-B processed) available in: *LTCM 376 (F)

Language (note)

Sung in German.

Contents

side 1. Introduction and synopsis of act 1 (Milton Cross) ; Opera news on the air (Boris Goldovsky, host, with Blanche Thebom) ; Synopsis of act 2 (Cross) ; George A. Sloan ; Texaco's opera quiz (Deems Taylor, host, with Robert Lawrence, Sigmund Spaeth and George Marek) ; Synopsis of act 3 (Cross) -- side 2. Overture ; Act 1 through "He! Holla! Steuermann!" -- side 3. Act 1 concluded -- side 4. Introduction ; Act 2 through "Bleib' Senta!" -- side 5. Act 2 concluded -- side 6. Introduction ; Act 3 ; Closing remarks (Cross).

Call Number

*LT-10 4925

OCLC

NYPG89-R530

Author

Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883.

Title

Der fliegende Hollaender [sound recording] : opera in three acts / music and libretto by Richard Wagner.

Playing Time

4528 21846

Series

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Dec. 30, 1950]

Performer

Sven Nilsson (Daland) ; Astrid Varnay (Senta) ; Set Svanholm (Erik) ; Herta Glaz (Mary) ; Thomas Hayward (Steersman) ; Hans Hotter (Dutchman) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; Fritz Reiner, conductor ; Milton Cross, broadcast announcer.

Original Version

Preservation tape, recorded at NYPL in Sept. 1989, from aluminum-based acetates (7 sound discs : analog, 33 1/3 rpm, mono. ; 16 in.) lent by the Metropolitan Opera.

Indexed In:

Opera news, v. 15, no. 10 (Dec. 25, 1950).

Event

Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Dec. 30, 1950.

Reproduction

Service copy (3 sound cassettes : analog, mono., Dolby-B processed) available in: *LTCM 376 (F)

Language

Sung in German.

Added Author

Nilsson, Sven, 1898- Performer

Varnay, Astrid. Performer

Svanholm, Set. Performer

Glaz, Hertha, 1908- Performer

Hayward, Thomas, 1921- Performer

Hotter, Hans. Performer

Reiner, Fritz, 1888-1963. Conductor

Cross, Milton, 1897-1975. Commentator

Sloan, George A. Commentator

Goldovsky, Boris. Commentator

Thebom, Blanche. Commentator

Taylor, Deems, 1885-1966. Commentator

Lawrence, Robert, 1912- Commentator

Spaeth, Sigmund, 1885-1965. Commentator

Marek, George R. (George Richard), 1902-1987. 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 4925 Master tape. Request cassette service copy in *LTCM 376 (F)

*LTCM 376 (F) Cassette service copy; production notes on file. Master tape in *LT-10 4925.

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