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Hansel and Gretel fairy-tale opera in two acts

Title: Hansel and Gretel [sound recording] : fairy-tale opera in two acts / music by Engelbert Humperdinck ; libretto by Adelheid Wette, based on the fairy-tale by Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm ; English text by Norman Kelly.
Author: Humperdinck, Engelbert, 1854-1921.

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Description

2 sound cassettes (138 min.) : stereo, Dolby-B processed.

Series Statement

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Dec. 31, 1983]

Uniform Title

Hänsel und Gretel. English.
Deutsche Sagen.
Texaco's opera quiz (Radio program)
Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (Radio program)

Alternative Title

Hänsel und Gretel.

Subject

Operas

Genre/Form

Live sound recordings.

Note

Title from house program ; series title from Opera news.
Durations: 0:35:37 (synopses and features) ; 1:42:47 (opera).
Production notes and official cast list (3 p.) on file in the Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound.

Indexed In (note)

Opera news

Performer (note)

Gail Robinson (Gretel) ; Hilda Harris (Hansel) ; Mignon Dunn (Gertrude) ; Peter Glossop (Peter) ; Lucille Beer (The sandman) ; Myra Merritt (The dewfairy) ; Rosalind Elias (The witch) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; Thomas Fulton, conductor ; Peter Allen, broadcast annoucer.

Event (note)

Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Dec. 31, 1983.

Reproduction (note)

Service copy (2 sound cassettes : stereo, Dolby-B processed) available in: *LTCM 440 (F)

Language (note)

Sung in English.

Contents

side 1. Introduction and synopsis of act 1 (Peter Allen) ; Texaco's opera quiz (Edward Downes, host, with Alberta Masiello, William Livingstone and Joseph Machlis) ; Synopsis of act 2 (Allen) -- side 2. Overture ; Act 1 through "Cuckoo, cuckoo, Where are you?" -- side 3. Act 1 concluded -- side 4. Act 2 ; Closing remarks (Allen).

Call Number

*LTCM 440 (F)

OCLC

NYPG91-R107

Author

Humperdinck, Engelbert, 1854-1921.

Title

Hansel and Gretel [sound recording] : fairy-tale opera in two acts / music by Engelbert Humperdinck ; libretto by Adelheid Wette, based on the fairy-tale by Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm ; English text by Norman Kelly.

Playing Time

003537 014247

Series

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Dec. 31, 1983]

Cast

Gail Robinson (Gretel) ; Hilda Harris (Hansel) ; Mignon Dunn (Gertrude) ; Peter Glossop (Peter) ; Lucille Beer (The sandman) ; Myra Merritt (The dewfairy) ; Rosalind Elias (The witch) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; Thomas Fulton, conductor ; Peter Allen, broadcast annoucer.

Original Version

Re-recorded at NYPL in Jan. 1991, from borrowed masters (2 sound tape reels : 7 1/2 ips, 2 track, stereo ; 10 in.) lent by the Metropolitan Opera.

Indexed In:

Opera news, v. 48, no. 7 (Dec. 31, 1983).

Event

Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Dec. 31, 1983.

Reproduction

Service copy (2 sound cassettes : stereo, Dolby-B processed) available in: *LTCM 440 (F)

Language

Sung in English.

Added Author

Wette, Adelheid, 1858-1916. Librettist

Robinson, Gail, 1946- Performer

Harris, Hilda, 1930- Performer

Dunn, Mignon. Performer

Glossop, Peter, 1928- Performer

Beer, Lucille. Performer

Merritt, Myra. Performer

Elias, Rosalind. Performer

Fulton, Thomas. Conductor

Allen, Peter, 1920- Commentator

Downes, Edward, 1911- Commentator

Masiello, Alberta. Commentator

Livingstone, William. Commentator

Machlis, Joseph, 1906-1998. Commentator

Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.)

Added Title

Deutsche Sagen.

Texaco's opera quiz (Radio program)

Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (Radio program)

Research Call Number

*LTCM 440 (F) \(Production notes on file.)

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