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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.
Publication: Feb. 24, 1951.

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Description

4 sound tape reels (232 min.) : analog, 7 1/2 ips, 2 track, mono.; 10 in.

Series Statement

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Feb. 24, 1951]

Uniform Title

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

Alternative Title

Rosenkavalier (Opera)

Subjects

Genre/Form

Classical music radio programs.
Live sound recordings.

Note

Title from house program ; series title from Opera news.
Durations: 0:45:54 (synopses and features) ; 3:06:41 (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)

Eleanor Steber (Princess von Werdenberg) ; Fritz Krenn (Baron Ochs) ; Jarmila Novotná (Octavian) ; Hugh Thompson (Von Faninal) ; Erna Berger (Sophie) ; Thelma Votipka (Marianne) ; Alessio De Paolis (Valzacchi) ; Herta Glaz (Annina) ; Lorenzo Alvary (Police commissary) ; Emery Darcy (The Princess' major-domo) ; Paul Franke (Von Faninal's major-domo) ; Lawrence Davidson (A notary) ; Leslie Chabay (An innkeeper, An animal vendor) ; Kurt Baum (A tenor) ; Barbara Troxell, Paula Lenchner, Margaret Roggero (Three orphans) ; Genevieve Warner (A milliner) ; Etienne Barone (A hairdresser) ; Ludwig Burgstaller (Leopold) ; Peggy Smithers (A 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. 24, 1951.

Reproduction (note)

Service copy (4 sound cassettes : analog, mono., Dolby-B processed) available in: *LTCM 384 (F)

Language (note)

Sung in German.

Contents

side 1. Introduction and synopsis of act 1 (Milton Cross) ; Opera news on the air (John Gutman, host, with Deems Taylor and Carlton Sprague Smith) ; Charles Kullman ; Synopsis of act 2 (Cross) ; Texaco's opera quiz (Louis Biancolli, host, with Sigmund Spaeth, Walter Ducloux and Paul Hume) ; Jarmila Novotná ; Synopsis of act 3 (Cross) -- side 2. [blank] -- side 3. Act 1 through "Als Morgengabe" -- side 4. Act 1 concluded -- side 5. Act 2 through "Mit ihren Augen voll Tränen" -- side 6. Act 2 concluded -- side 7. Act 3 through "Zur Stelle" -- side 8. Act 3 concluded ; Closing remarks (Cross).

Call Number

*LTCM 384 (F)

OCLC

NYPG89-R553

Author

Strauss, Richard, 1864-1949.

Title

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

Imprint

Feb. 24, 1951.

Playing Time

004554 030641

Series

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Feb. 24, 1951]

Cast

Eleanor Steber (Princess von Werdenberg) ; Fritz Krenn (Baron Ochs) ; Jarmila Novotná (Octavian) ; Hugh Thompson (Von Faninal) ; Erna Berger (Sophie) ; Thelma Votipka (Marianne) ; Alessio De Paolis (Valzacchi) ; Herta Glaz (Annina) ; Lorenzo Alvary (Police commissary) ; Emery Darcy (The Princess' major-domo) ; Paul Franke (Von Faninal's major-domo) ; Lawrence Davidson (A notary) ; Leslie Chabay (An innkeeper, An animal vendor) ; Kurt Baum (A tenor) ; Barbara Troxell, Paula Lenchner, Margaret Roggero (Three orphans) ; Genevieve Warner (A milliner) ; Etienne Barone (A hairdresser) ; Ludwig Burgstaller (Leopold) ; Peggy Smithers (A blackamoor) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; Fritz Reiner, conductor ; Milton Cross, broadcast announcer.

Original Version

Preservation tape, recorded at NYPL in Oct. 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. 15, no. 18 (Feb. 19, 1951).

Event

Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Feb. 24, 1951.

Reproduction

Service copy (4 sound cassettes : analog, mono., Dolby-B processed) available in: *LTCM 384 (F)

Language

Sung in German.

Added Author

Hofmannsthal, Hugo von, 1874-1929. Librettist

Steber, Eleanor. Performer

Krenn, Fritz. Performer

Novotná, Jarmila, 1907-1994. Performer. Commentator

Thompson, Hugh, 1915- Performer

Berger, Erna, 1900- Performer

Votipka, Thelma. Performer

De Paolis, Alessio. Performer

Glaz, Hertha, 1908- Performer

Alvary, Lorenzo, 1909- Performer

Darcy, Emery. Performer

Franke, Paul, 1917-2011. Performer

Davidson, Lawrence (Baritone) Performer

Chabay, Leslie, 1907- Performer

Baum, Kurt, 1900-1989. Performer

Troxell, Barbara. Performer

Lenchner, Paula. Performer

Roggero, Margaret. Performer

Warner, Genevieve. Performer

Barone, Etienne. Performer

Burgstaller, Ludwig. Performer

Smithers, Peggy. Performer

Reiner, Fritz, 1888-1963. Conductor

Cross, Milton, 1897-1975. Commentator

Kullman, Charles, 1903-1983. Commentator

Gutman, John. Commentator

Taylor, Deems, 1885-1966. Commentator

Smith, Carleton Sprague, 1905-1994. Commentator

Biancolli, Louis. Commentator

Spaeth, Sigmund, 1885-1965. Commentator

Ducloux, Walter. Commentator

Hume, Paul, 1915- Commentator

Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.)

Added Title

Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (Radio program)

Opera news on the air (Radio program)

Texaco's opera quiz (Radio program)

Research Call Number

*LTCM 384 (F)

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