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Fidelio opera in two acts

Title: Fidelio [sound recording] : opera in two acts / music by Ludwig van Beethoven ; libretto by Josef Sonnleithner and Friedrich Treitschke.
Author: Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827.

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Description

3 sound cassettes (174 min.) : stereo, Dolby-B processed.

Series Statement

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Jan. 7, 1984]

Uniform Title

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

Alternative Title

Fidelio (1814)

Subject

Operas

Genre/Form

Live sound recordings.

Note

Title from house program ; series title from Opera news.
Durations: 0:29:38 (synopses and features) ; 2:24:31 (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

Performer (note)

James Atherton (Jacquino) ; Roberta Peters (Marzelline) ; Paul Plishka (Rocco) ; Eva Marton (Leonore) ; Franz Mazura (Don Pizarro) ; Anthony Laciura (First prisoner) ; James Courtney (Second prisoner) ; Jon Vickers (Florestan) ; John Cheek (Don Fernando) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; Klaus Tennstedt, conductor ; Peter Allen, broadcast announcer.

Event (note)

Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Jan. 7, 1984.

Language (note)

Sung in German.

Contents

side 1. Introduction and synopsis of act 1 (Peter Allen) ; Opera news on the air (Robert Jacobson, host, with Bidú Sayão) ; Synopsis of act 2 (Allen) -- side 2. [blank] -- side 3. Overture ; Act 1 through "Jetzt, Alter, hat es Eile!" -- side 4. Act 1 concluded -- side 5. Act 2 through Leonore Overture #3 -- side 6. Act 2 concluded ; Closing remarks (Allen).

Call Number

*LTCM 441 (F)

OCLC

NYPG91-R108

Author

Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827.

Title

Fidelio [sound recording] : opera in two acts / music by Ludwig van Beethoven ; libretto by Josef Sonnleithner and Friedrich Treitschke.

Playing Time

002938 022431

Series

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Jan. 7, 1984]

Cast

James Atherton (Jacquino) ; Roberta Peters (Marzelline) ; Paul Plishka (Rocco) ; Eva Marton (Leonore) ; Franz Mazura (Don Pizarro) ; Anthony Laciura (First prisoner) ; James Courtney (Second prisoner) ; Jon Vickers (Florestan) ; John Cheek (Don Fernando) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; Klaus Tennstedt, conductor ; Peter Allen, broadcast announcer.

Indexed In:

Opera news, v. 48, no. 8 (Jan. 7, 1984).

Event

Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Jan. 7, 1984.

Original Version

Re-recorded at NYPL in Sept. 1990, from borrowed masters (2 sound tape reels : 7 1/2 ips, 2 track, stereo ; 10 in.) lent by the Metropolitan Opera.

Language

Sung in German.

Added Author

Sonnleithner, Joseph Ferdinand, 1766-1835. Librettist

Treitschke, Georg Friedrich, 1776-1842.

Atherton, James. Performer

Peters, Roberta, 1930-2017. prff

Plishka, Paul, 1941- Performer

Marton, Eva. Performer

Mazura, Franz. Performer

Laciura, Anthony. Performer

Courtney, James, 1946- performer

Vickers, Jon. Performer

Cheek, John, 1948- Performer

Tennstedt, Klaus, 1926- Conductor

Allen, Peter, 1920-2016. Commentator

Jacobson, Robert M. Commentator

Sayão, Bidú. 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 441 (F) \(Production notes on file.)

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