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Der Rosenkavalier opera in three acts

Title: Der Rosenkavalier [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 tape reels (238 min.) : analog, 7 1/2 ips, 2 track, mono.; 10 in.

Series Statement

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Feb. 28, 1953]

Uniform Title

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

Alternative Title

Rosenkavalier (Opera)

Subject

Operas

Genre/Form

Live sound recordings.

Note

Title from house program ; series title from Opera news.
Durations: 0:59:26 (synopses and features) ; 2:58:32 (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

Performer (note)

Astrid Varnay (Princess von Werdenberg) ; Endre Koréh (Baron Ochs) ; Risë Stevens (Octavian) ; John Brownlee (Von Faninal) ; Nadine Conner (Sophie) ; Thelma Votipka (Marianne) ; Alessio De Paolis (Valzacchi) ; Herta Glaz (Annina) ; Osie Hawkins (Police commissary) ; Emery Darcy (Princess' major domo) ; Paul Franke (Von Faninal's major domo, Innkeeper) ; Gerhard Pechner (Notary) ; Thomas Hayward (Tenor) ; Laura Castellano, Paula Lenchner and Margaret Roggero (Three orphans) ; Genevieve Warner (Milliner) ; Adelino Palomanos (Hairdresser) ; Rudolf Mayreder (Leopold) ; Gabor Carelli (Animal vendor) ; Gloria Lyons (Blackamoor) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; Fritz Reiner, conductor ; Milton Cross, broadcast announcer.

Event (note)

Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Feb. 28, 1953.

Reproduction (note)

Service copy (4 sound cassettes : analog, mono., Dolby-B processed) available in: *LTCM 342 (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 Jarmila Novotna) ; Synopsis of act 2 (Cross) ; Texaco's opera quiz (Robert Lawrence, host, with Mary Ellis Peltz, Robert Bagar and Sigmund Spaeth) -- side 2. Synopsis of act 3 and closing (Cross) -- side 3. Act 1 through "Mein lieber Hypolŷte" -- side 4. "Da geht er hin" through "Oh sei er gut, Quinquin" -- side 5. "Ein erster Tag" through "Ecco!" -- side 6. "Da lieg' ich" through "Ohne mich" -- side 7. Intrduction through "Mit dieser Stund' vorbei" -- side 8. "Ist halt vorbei" through "Ist ein Traum".

Call Number

*LT-10 4892

OCLC

NYPG89-R70

Author

Strauss, Richard, 1864-1949.

Title

Der Rosenkavalier [sound recording] : opera in three acts / music by Richard Strauss ; libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal.

Playing Time

005926 025832

Series

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Feb. 28, 1953]

Cast

Astrid Varnay (Princess von Werdenberg) ; Endre Koréh (Baron Ochs) ; Risë Stevens (Octavian) ; John Brownlee (Von Faninal) ; Nadine Conner (Sophie) ; Thelma Votipka (Marianne) ; Alessio De Paolis (Valzacchi) ; Herta Glaz (Annina) ; Osie Hawkins (Police commissary) ; Emery Darcy (Princess' major domo) ; Paul Franke (Von Faninal's major domo, Innkeeper) ; Gerhard Pechner (Notary) ; Thomas Hayward (Tenor) ; Laura Castellano, Paula Lenchner and Margaret Roggero (Three orphans) ; Genevieve Warner (Milliner) ; Adelino Palomanos (Hairdresser) ; Rudolf Mayreder (Leopold) ; Gabor Carelli (Animal vendor) ; Gloria Lyons (Blackamoor) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; Fritz Reiner, conductor ; Milton Cross, broadcast announcer.

Original Version

Preservation tapes recorded at NYPL in Jan. 1989, 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. 17, no. 17 (Feb. 23, 1953).

Event

Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Feb. 28, 1953.

Reproduction

Service copy (4 sound cassettes : analog, mono., Dolby-B processed) available in: *LTCM 342 (F)

Language

Sung in German.

Added Author

Hofmannsthal, Hugo von, 1874-1929. Librettist

Varnay, Astrid. Performer

Koréh, Endre, 1906-1960. Performer

Stevens, Risë, 1913- Performer

Brownlee, John, 1901-1969. Performer

Conner, Nadine. Performer

Votipka, Thelma. Performer

De Paolis, Alessio. Performer

Glaz, Hertha, 1908- Performer

Hawkins, Osie. Performer

Darcy, Emery. Performer

Franke, Paul, 1917-2011. Performer

Pechner, Gerhard. Performer

Hayward, Thomas, 1921- Performer

Castellano, Laura. Performer

Lenchner, Paula. Performer

Roggero, Margaret. Performer

Warner, Genevieve. Performer

Palomanos, Adelino. Performer

Mayreder, Rudolf. Performer

Carelli, Gabor. Performer

Lyons, Gloria. Performer

Reiner, Fritz, 1888-1963. Conductor

Cross, Milton, 1897-1975. Commentator

Goldovsky, Boris. Commentator

Novotná, Jarmila, 1907-1994. Commentator

Lawrence, Robert, 1912- Commentator

Peltz, Mary Ellis, 1896-1981. Commentator

Bagar, Robert C. Commentator

Spaeth, Sigmund, 1885-1965. 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 4892 Master copy. Request cassette service copy in *LTCM 342 (F)

*LTCM 342 (F) Cassette service copy; production notes on file. Master tape in *LT-10 4892.

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