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Lulu opera in three acts : after the tragedies "Erdgeist" and "Büchse der Pandora" by Frank Wedekind

Title: Lulu [sound recording] : opera in three acts : after the tragedies "Erdgeist" and "Büchse der Pandora" by Frank Wedekind / text and music by Alban Berg ; Act III edited and orchestrated by Friedrich Cerha.
Author: Berg, Alban, 1885-1935.
Publication: [New York, NY] : Metropolitan Opera, c2001.

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Description

4 sound discs : digital, stereo.; 4 3/4 in.

Donor/Sponsor

Gift of Metropolitan Opera.

Series Statement

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of] Apr. 21, 2001.

Uniform Title

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

Subject

Operas

Genre/Form

Live sound recordings.

Note

Subtitle from house program.
Durations: 1:14:55 (synopses and features) ; 3:08:52 (opera).
Compact discs.
House program on file in Music Division.

Indexed In (note)

Opera news

Performer (note)

Christine Schäfer (Lulu) ; Hanna Schwarz (Countess Geschwitz) ; David Kuebler (Alwa) ; Clifton Forbis (The painter, The African prince) ; James Courtney (Dr. Schön, Jack the Ripper) ; Stephen West (The animal tamer, The acrobat) ; Franz Mazura (Schigolch) ; Jennifer Dudley (The wardrobe mistress, The schoolboy, The page) ; Graham Clark (The prince, The manservant, The marquis) ; Richard Vernon (The theater manager, The banker) ; Robin Blitch Wiper (Fifteen-year old-Girl) ; Diane Curry (Her mother) ; Jane Dutton (Designer) ; Richard Hobson (Journalist) ; Andrew Gangestad (Servant) ; Mitchell Sendrowitz (The physician, The professor) ; Abe Marcus (Clown) ; David Brimmer (Police commissioner) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; James Levine, conductor ; Peter Allen, broadcast announcer.

Event (note)

Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Apr. 21, 2001.

Source (note)

Metropolitan Opera;

Language (note)

Sung in German.

Contents

CD 1. Introduction and synopsis of Act 1 (Peter Allen) ; Act 1 -- CD 2. Act 2 -- CD 3. Act 3 ; closing (Allen) -- CD 4. Opera news on the air: Robert Marx speaks with Metropolitan Opera General Manager Joseph Volpe ; synopsis of Act 2 (Allen) ; Texaco's opera quiz (William Livingstone, host, Carolyn Abbate, Alan Wagner and Terrence McNally) ; synopsis of Act 3 (Allen).

Call Number

*LDC 26944

OCLC

NYPG01-R361

Author

Berg, Alban, 1885-1935.

Title

Lulu [sound recording] : opera in three acts : after the tragedies "Erdgeist" and "Büchse der Pandora" by Frank Wedekind / text and music by Alban Berg ; Act III edited and orchestrated by Friedrich Cerha.

Imprint

[New York, NY] : Metropolitan Opera, c2001.

Series

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of] Apr. 21, 2001.

Cast

Christine Schäfer (Lulu) ; Hanna Schwarz (Countess Geschwitz) ; David Kuebler (Alwa) ; Clifton Forbis (The painter, The African prince) ; James Courtney (Dr. Schön, Jack the Ripper) ; Stephen West (The animal tamer, The acrobat) ; Franz Mazura (Schigolch) ; Jennifer Dudley (The wardrobe mistress, The schoolboy, The page) ; Graham Clark (The prince, The manservant, The marquis) ; Richard Vernon (The theater manager, The banker) ; Robin Blitch Wiper (Fifteen-year old-Girl) ; Diane Curry (Her mother) ; Jane Dutton (Designer) ; Richard Hobson (Journalist) ; Andrew Gangestad (Servant) ; Mitchell Sendrowitz (The physician, The professor) ; Abe Marcus (Clown) ; David Brimmer (Police commissioner) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; James Levine, conductor ; Peter Allen, broadcast announcer.

Indexed In:

Opera news, v. 65, no. 10 (Apr. 2001).

Event

Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Apr. 21, 2001.

Language

Sung in German.

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Added Author

Allen, Peter, 1920-2016. Commentator

Wedekind, Frank, 1864-1918. Erdgeist.

Wedekind, Frank, 1864-1918. Büchse der Pandora.

Cerha, Friedrich. Editor

Schäfer, Christine, 1965- Performer

Schwarz, Hanna. Performer

Kuebler, David. Performer

Forbis, Clifton. Performer

Courtney, James, 1946- performer

West, Stephen (Tenor) Performer

Mazura, Franz. Performer

Dudley, Jennifer. Performer

Clark, Graham, 1941- Performer

Vernon, Richard, 1950- Performer

Wiper, Robin Blitch. Performer

Curry, Diane. Performer

Dutton, Jane (Singer) Performer

Hobson, Richard (Tenor) Performer

Gangestad, Andrew. Performer

Sendrowitz, Mitchell. Performer

Marcus, Abe. Performer

Brimmer, David. Performer

Levine, James, 1943-2021. Conductor

Marx, Robert. Commentator

Volpe, Joseph. Commentator

Livingstone, William. Commentator

Abbate, Carolyn. Commentator

Wagner, Alan, 1931-2007. Commentator

McNally, Terrence. Commentator

Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.)

Added Title

Opera news on the air (Radio program)

Texaco's opera quiz (Radio program)

Added Title

Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (Radio program)

Research Call Number

*LDC 26944

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