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Das Rheingold opera in four scene

Title: Das Rheingold [sound recording] : opera in four scene / music and libretto by Richard Wagner.
Author: Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883.
Publication: [New York, NY] : Metropolitan Opera, [2003]

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Description

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

Donor/Sponsor

Gift of the Metropolitan Opera.

Series Statement

Metropolitan Opera Radio Broadcast ; [broadcast of] April 3, 1937.

Uniform Title

Ring des Nibelungen. Rheingold
Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (Radio program)

Alternative Title

Ring des Nibelungen. Rheingold

Subject

Operas

Genre/Form

Live sound recordings.

Note

Subtitle from house program.
Durations: 31:27 (Introduction, announcements, and intermission features) ; 2:17:19 (opera).
Compact discs.

Performer (note)

Friedrich Schorr (Wotan) ; Karin Branzell (Fricka) ; Dorothee Manski (Freia) ; Doris Doe (Erda) ; Eduard Habich (Alberich) ; René Maison (Loge) ; Norman Cordon (Fasolt) ; Emanuel List (Fafner) ; Julius Huehn (Donner) ; Hans Clemens (Froh) ; Karl Laufkötter (Mime) ; Stella Andreva (Woglinde) ; Irra Petina (Wellgunde) ; Doris Doe (Flosshilde) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; Artur Bodanzky, conductor ; broadcast announcer not identified.

Event (note)

Live broadcast from the Boston Opera House, April 3, 1937.

Source (note)

Metropolitan Opera;

Language (note)

Sung in German.

Contents

CD 1. Introduction and description of Boston Opera House and music life of Boston (announcer) ; Wallace Goodrich, Music Director of the New England Conservatory of Music, discusses the history of opera in Boston, part 1 ; Opera, part 1 -- CD 2. Opera, part 2 -- CD 3. Opera, part 3 ; Closing remarks (announcer) -- CD 4. Intermission between scenes 2 and 3 (Wallace Goodrich discussion continued ; Eugene Boissevain, husband of Edna St. Vincent Millay, discusses the Salzburg and Bayreuth festivals, and the possibilities of motion pictures as background for staging the difficult scenes in Wagner's Ring) ; Synopsis of opera scenes 3 and 4 (announcer).

Call Number

*LDC 32552

OCLC

NYPG05-R22

Author

Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883.

Title

Das Rheingold [sound recording] : opera in four scene / music and libretto by Richard Wagner.

Imprint

[New York, NY] : Metropolitan Opera, [2003]

Series

Metropolitan Opera Radio Broadcast ; [broadcast of] April 3, 1937.

Cast

Friedrich Schorr (Wotan) ; Karin Branzell (Fricka) ; Dorothee Manski (Freia) ; Doris Doe (Erda) ; Eduard Habich (Alberich) ; René Maison (Loge) ; Norman Cordon (Fasolt) ; Emanuel List (Fafner) ; Julius Huehn (Donner) ; Hans Clemens (Froh) ; Karl Laufkötter (Mime) ; Stella Andreva (Woglinde) ; Irra Petina (Wellgunde) ; Doris Doe (Flosshilde) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; Artur Bodanzky, conductor ; broadcast announcer not identified.

Event

Live broadcast from the Boston Opera House, April 3, 1937.

Language

Sung in German.

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Schorr, Friedrich, 1888-1953. Performer

Branzell, Karin, 1891-1974. Performer

Manski, Dorothée. Performer

Doe, Doris, 1899-1985. Performer

Habich, Eduard. Performer

Maison, René, 1895-1962. Performer

Cordon, Norman. Performer

List, Emanuel. Performer

Huehn, Julius. Performer

Clemens, Hans, 1890-1958. Performer

Laufkoetter, Karl. Performer

Andreva, Stella. Performer

Petina, Irra, 1907- Performer

Bodanzky, Artur, 1877-1939. Conductor

Goodrich, Wallace, 1871-1952. Commentator

Boissevain, Eugen, -1949. Commentator

Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.)

Added Title

Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (Radio program)

Research Call Number

*LDC 32552

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