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Lulu opera in three acts

Title: Lulu [sound recording] : opera in three acts / music and text by Alban Berg, after the tragedies Erdgeist and Büchse der Pandora by Frank Wedekind.
Author: Berg, Alban, 1885-1935.

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Description

3 sound cassettes (250 min.) : stereo, Dolby-B processed.

Series Statement

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Apr. 13, 1985]

Uniform Title

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

Alternative Title

Lulu

Subject

Operas

Genre/Form

Live sound recordings.

Note

Sung in German.
Title from house program ; series title from Opera news.
Durations: 1:09:04 (synopses and features) ; 3:00:20 (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

Event (note)

Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Apr. 13, 1985.

Reproduction (note)

Service copy (3 sound cassettes : stereo, Dolby-B processed) available in: *LTCM 474 (F)

Contents

side 1. Introduction and synopsis of act 1 (Peter Allen) ; Opera news on the air (Edwin McArthur) ; Synopsis of act 2 (Allen) ; Texaco's opera quiz (Edward Downes, host, with Susan Gould, Dorothy Stowe and Speight Jenkins) -- side 2. Quiz concluded ; Synopsis of act 3 (Allen) -- side 3. Prologue ; Act 1 through "Seit ich für die Bühne) -- side 4. Act 1 concluded ; Act 2 through "Wenn sich die Menschen" -- side 5. Act 2 concluded ; Act 3 through "Brillant!" -- side 6. Act 3 concluded ; Closing remarks (Allen).

Call Number

*LTCM 474 (f)

OCLC

NYPG91-R208

Author

Berg, Alban, 1885-1935.

Title

Lulu [sound recording] : opera in three acts / music and text by Alban Berg, after the tragedies Erdgeist and Büchse der Pandora by Frank Wedekind.

Playing Time

010904 032020

Series

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Apr. 13, 1985]

Performer

Julia Migenes-Johnson (Lulu) ; Evelyn Lear (Countess Geschwitz) ; William Lewis (Alwa) ; Edward Sooter (The Painter and The Negro) ; Franz Mazura (Dr. Schön and Jack the Ripper) ; Lenus Carlson (The Animal Tamer and The Acrobat) ; Andrew Foldi (Schigolch) ; Hilda Harris (The Wardrobe Mistress, The Schoolboy and The Page) ; Robert Nagy (The Prince, The Manservant and The Marquis) ; Ara Berberian (The Theatre Manager and The Banker) ; Betsy Norden (Fifteen-year-old Girl) ; Batyah Godfrey (Her Mother) ; Lucille Beer (Desinger) ; John Darrenkamp (Journalist) ; James Courtney (Servant) ; Talmage Harper (The Physician and The Professor) ; Abraham Marcus (Clown) ; Gary Drane (Police Commissioner) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; James Levine, conductor ; Peter Allen, broadcast announcer.

Indexed In:

Opera news, v. 49, no. 15 (Apr. 13, 1985).

Event

Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Apr. 13, 1985.

Original Version

Re-recorded at NYPL in Apr. 1991, from borrowed masters (3 sound tape reels : 7 1/2 ips, 2 track, stereo ; 10 in.) lent by the Metropolitan Opera.

Reproduction

Service copy (3 sound cassettes : stereo, Dolby-B processed) available in: *LTCM 474 (F)

Added Author

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

Migenes-Johnson, Julia. Performer

Lear, Evelyn. Performer

Yuscarán, Guillermo. Performer

Sooter, Edward. Performer

Mazura, Franz. Performer

Carlson, Lenus. Performer

Foldi, Andrew. Performer

Harris, Hilda, 1930- Performer

Nagy, Robert, 1929- Performer

Berberian, Ara. Performer

Norden, Betsy. Performer

Godfrey Ben-David, Batyah. Performer

Beer, Lucille. Performer

Darrenkamp, John. Performer

Courtney, James, 1946- performer

Harper, Talmage. Performer

Marcus, Abraham. Performer

Drane, Gary. Performer

Levine, James, 1943-2021. Conductor

Allen, Peter, 1920-2016. Commentator

McArthur, Edwin. Commentator

Downes, Edward, 1911- Commentator

Gould, Susan. Commentator

Stowe, Dorothy. Commentator

Jenkins, Speight. 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

*LTCM 474 (f) \(Production notes in listening room.)

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