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Fidelio / Ludwig van Beethoven.

Met Opera on Demand Available online

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Format:
Sound recording
Author/Creator:
Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827, composer, composer.
Contributor:
Nilsson, Birgit, performer, performer.
King, James, 1925-2005, performer, performer.
Evans, Geraint, 1922-1992, performer, performer.
Edelmann, Otto, performer, performer.
Böhm, Karl, 1894-1981, conductor, conductor.
Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.), performer, performer.
Standardized Title:
Fidelio (1814)
Language:
German
Subjects (All):
Operas.
Live sound recordings--New York (State)--New York.
Live sound recordings.
New York (State)--New York.
Genre:
Sound recordings.
Operas.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (1 audio file (2 hr., 4 min., 56 sec.))
Other Title:
Met Opera on Demand.
Place of Publication:
[New York, New York] : [Metropolitan Opera], [1966]
Language Note:
Sung in German.
System Details:
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
digital
audio file streaming audio file
Summary:
Beethoven's only opera attracts the greatest singers and conductors, not only for its passionate music, but also because of its profoundly stirring message of freedom and the rights of the individual against tyranny. It all comes together superbly in this historic performance led by the legendary conductor Karl Böhm. Birgit Nilsson is Leonore, the woman who disguises herself as a man in her desperate attempt to locate her husband Florestan (James King, a couple weeks after his Met debut in the same role), who has been unjustly imprisoned by his enemy, Don Pizarro (Geraint Evans).
Contents:
Overture
Jetzt, Schätzchen, jetzt sind wir allein
Der arme Jaquino
O wär' ich schon mit dir vereint
Dialogue: Marzelline, ist Fidelio noch nicht zurück gekommen?
Mir ist so wunderbar
Nun, meinen Kinder
Hat man nicht auch Gold beneben
Dialogue: Es gibt noch etwas
Gut Söhnchen, gut, hab immer Mut
March
Dialogue: Die Depeschen!
Ha!, welch' ein Augenblick!
Dialogue: Hauptmann!
Jetzt, Alter, hat es Eile!
Abscheulicher! Wo eilst du hin?
Komm Hoffnung
Dialogue: Marzelline, sei diese Fidelio!
O welche Lust!
Nun sprecht, wie ging's?
Leb'wohl, du warmes Sonnenlicht
Introduction
Gott! welch dunkel hier
In des Lebens Frühlingstagen
Dialogue: Wie kalt ist es
Nur hurtig fort, nur frisch gegraben
Dialogue: Er erwacht!
Euch werde Lohn in bessern Welten
Dialogue: Alles ist bereit
Er sterbe!
Dialogue: O meine Leonore!
O namenlose Freude!
Overture: Leonore No. 3
Heil sei dem Tag
Gefesselt, bleich steht er vor mir
O Gott! Welch' ein Augenblick!
Wer ein holdes Weib errungen.
Participant:
Birgit Nilsson ; James King ; Geraint Evans ; Otto Edelmann ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; Karl Böhm, conductor.
Notes:
Recorded live in 1966 at the Metropolitan Opera, New York, New York.
Duration: 2 hr., 4 min., 56 sec.
Description based on vendor-supplied metadata.
OCLC:
859396610
Access Restriction:
Restricted for use by site license.

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