side 1. Introduction and synopsis of act 1 (Milton Cross) ; Opera news on the air (Boris Goldovsky, host, with Ada Holding Miller and A.J. Fletcher) ; Synopsis of act 2 (Cross) ; Texaco's opera quiz (Robert Lawrence, host, with Mary Ellis Peltz, George Marek and Sigmund Spaeth) -- side 2. Synopsis of act 3 (Cross) -- side 3. Prelude of act 1 through "The Challenge" -- side 4. Act 1 concluded -- side 5. Introduction through Act 2 scene 2 -- side 6. Act 2 concluded -- side 7. Introduction through Act 3 scene 2 -- side 8. Act 3 concluded.
Call number
*LT-10 4898
Note
Title from house program ; series title from Opera news.
Durations: 0:48:28 (synopses and features) ; 3:14:16 (opera).
Production notes and official cast list (5 p.) on file in the Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound.
Indexed in (note)
Opera news
Performer (note)
Dezso Ernster (King Henry) ; Brian Sullivan (Lohengrin) ; Eleanor Steber (Elsa) ; Sigurd Bjoerling (Telramund) ; Margaret Harshaw (Ortrud) ; Arthur Budney (King's herald) ; Paul Franke, Gabor Carelli, Algerd Brazis and Norman Scott (Nobles) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; Fritz Stiedry, conductor ; Milton Cross, broadcast announcer.
Event (note)
Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Apr. 11, 1953.
Reproduction (note)
Service copy (4 sound cassettes : analog, mono., Dolby-B processed) available in: *LTCM 348 (F)
Language (note)
Sung in German.
Author
Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883.
Title
Lohengrin [sound recording] : opera in three acts / libretto and music by Richard Wagner.
Playing time
004828 031416
Series
Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Apr. 11, 1953]
Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Apr. 11, 1953]
Cast
Dezso Ernster (King Henry) ; Brian Sullivan (Lohengrin) ; Eleanor Steber (Elsa) ; Sigurd Bjoerling (Telramund) ; Margaret Harshaw (Ortrud) ; Arthur Budney (King's herald) ; Paul Franke, Gabor Carelli, Algerd Brazis and Norman Scott (Nobles) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; Fritz Stiedry, conductor ; Milton Cross, broadcast announcer.
Original version
Preservation tapes recorded at NYPL in Apr. 1989, from aluminum-based acetates (9 sound discs : analog, 33 1/3 rpm, mono. ; 16 in.) lent by the Metropolitan Opera.
Indexed in:
Opera news, v. 17, no. 23 (Apr. 6, 1953).
Event
Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Apr. 11, 1953.
Reproduction
Service copy (4 sound cassettes : analog, mono., Dolby-B processed) available in: *LTCM 348 (F)
Language
Sung in German.
Added author
Ernster, Dezsö, 1898-1981. Performer
Sullivan, Brian, 1919-1969. Performer
Steber, Eleanor. Performer
Björling, Sigurd. Performer
Harshaw, Margaret. Performer
Budney, Arthur. Performer
Franke, Paul, 1917-2011. Performer
Carelli, Gabor. Performer
Brazis, Algerd. Performer
Scott, Norman, 1921-1968. Performer
Stiedry, Fritz. Conductor
Cross, Milton, 1897-1975. Commentator
Goldovsky, Boris. Commentator
Holding-Miller, Ada. Commentator
Fletcher, A. J. Commentator
Lawrence, Robert, 1912- Commentator
Peltz, Mary Ellis, 1896-1981. Commentator
Marek, George R. (George Richard), 1902-1987. Commentator
Spaeth, Sigmund, 1885-1965. Commentator
Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.) Performer
Added title
Opera news on the air (Radio program)
Texaco's opera quiz (Radio program)
Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (Radio program)
Research call number
*LT-10 4898 Master tape. Request cassette service copy in *LTCM 348 (F)
*LTCM 348 (F) Cassette service copy; production notes on file. Master tape in *LT-10 4898.