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Fidelio opera in two acts...

Title: Fidelio [sound recording] : opera in two acts... / Ludwig van Beethoven ; libretto by Joseph Sonnleithner and Georg Treitschke from the French by J.N. Bouilly.
Author: Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827.

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Description

on 5 sides of 3 sound cassettes (179 min.) : analog, mono., Dolby-B processed.

Series Statement

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of \Jan. 26, 1963\630126\]

Uniform Title

Fidelio (1814)
Opera news on the air (Radio program).
Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (Radio program)

Alternative Title

Fidelio (1814)

Subject

Operas

Note

Titles from Opera news.
Durations: 0:40:15 (synopses and features) ; 2:19:10 (opera).
Production notes and official cast list (6 p.) on file in the Rodgers & Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound.

Indexed In (note)

Opera news

Performer (note)

Birgit Nilsson (Leonore) ; Jon Vickers (Florestan) ; Judith Raskin (Marzelline) ; Charles Anthony (Jacquino) ; Ernst Wiemann (Rocco) ; Morley Meredith (Don Pizarro) ; Ezio Flagello (Don Fernando) ; George Shirley (First prisoner) ; Calvin Marsh (Second prisoner) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; Karl Böhm, conductor ; Milton Cross, broadcast announcer.

Event (note)

Originally recorded in the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Jan. 26, 1963.

Language (note)

Sung in German.

Contents

side 1. Introduction and synopsis of act 1 (Milton Cross) ; Opera news on the air (Edward Downes discusses vocal terms with Birgit Nilsson and Joan Sutherland) ; Synopsis of act 2 (Cross) -- side 2. Blank -- side 3. Act 1, scene 1 -- side 4. Act 1, scene 2-- side 5. Act 2, scene 1 -- side 6. Leonore Overture No. 3 ; Act 2, scene 2 ; Closing remarks (Cross).

Call Number

*LTCM 174 (F)

OCLC

NYPG85-R461

Author

Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827.

Title

Fidelio [sound recording] : opera in two acts... / Ludwig van Beethoven ; libretto by Joseph Sonnleithner and Georg Treitschke from the French by J.N. Bouilly.

Playing Time

004015 021910

Series

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of \Jan. 26, 1963\630126\]

Cast

Birgit Nilsson (Leonore) ; Jon Vickers (Florestan) ; Judith Raskin (Marzelline) ; Charles Anthony (Jacquino) ; Ernst Wiemann (Rocco) ; Morley Meredith (Don Pizarro) ; Ezio Flagello (Don Fernando) ; George Shirley (First prisoner) ; Calvin Marsh (Second prisoner) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; Karl Böhm, conductor ; Milton Cross, broadcast announcer.

Indexed In:

Opera news, v. 27, no. 12 (Jan. 26, 1963).

Event

Originally recorded in the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Jan. 26, 1963.

Original Version

Re-recorded at NYPL in Sep. 1985, from borrowed masters (4 sound tape reels : 7 1/2 ips, 1 track, mono. ; 10 in.).

Language

Sung in German.

Added Author

Sonnleithner, Joseph Ferdinand, 1766-1835. Librettist

Treitschke, Georg Friedrich, 1776-1842. Librettist

Bouilly, J. N. (Jean Nicolas), 1763-1842. Léonore.

Nilsson, Birgit. Performer. Commentator

Vickers, Jon. Performer

Raskin, Judith. Performer

Anthony, Charles, 1929-2012. Performer

Wiemann, Ernst. Performer

Meredith, Morley. Performer

Flagello, Ezio. Performer

Shirley, George. Performer

Marsh, Calvin. Performer

Böhm, Karl, 1894-1981. Conductor

Cross, Milton, 1897-1975. Commentator

Downes, Edward, 1911- Commentator

Sutherland, Joan, 1926-2010. Commentator

Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827. Fidelio (1806). Ouverture.

Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.)

Added Title

Opera news on the air (Radio program).

Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (Radio program)

Research Call Number

*LTCM 174 (F) \(Prodcution notes in listeining room.)

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