Guide to the Hugh Fowell Great Performances Collection
ARS.0100
Finding aid prepared by Franz Kunst
Archive of Recorded Sound
Braun Music Center
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Stanford University
Stanford, California, 94305-3076
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Descriptive Summary
Title: Hugh Fowell Great Performances Collection
Dates: 1980s-1990s
Collection number: ARS.0100
Collection size:
2 boxes
: 25 videocassettes
Repository:
Archive of Recorded Sound
Abstract: Home-recorded videocassettes of television broadcasts of opera from the Great Performances series.
Language of Material: Multiple languages
Access
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assistance.
Publication Rights
Property rights reside with repository. Publication and reproduction rights reside with the creators or their heirs. To obtain
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Preferred Citation
Hugh Fowell Great Performances Collection, ARS-0100. Courtesy of the Stanford Archive of Recorded Sound, Stanford University
Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Source
The Hugh Fowell Great Performances Collection was donated to the Stanford Archive of Recorded Sound by Rosemary Fowell in
1999.
Sponsor
This finding aid was produced with generous financial support from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission.
Scope and Contents
Twenty-five VHS videocassettes of opera taped from the Great Performances television series, primarily of the Metropolitan
Opera and largely of works by Mozart, Verdi, and Wagner. All were recorded off-air by Hugh Fowell.
Indexing Terms
Fowell, Hugh
Great performances (WNET (Television station : New York, N.Y.)).
Operas
Television programs.
Box 1
Nixon and China (Adams) - Houston Grand Opera
1988
Physical Description:
1 videocassette
Box 1
Mefistofele (Boito) - San Francisco Opera, with Ramey,Banackova, O'Neill
Physical Description:
1 videocassettes
Box 1
Andrea Chenier (Giordano) - Royal Opera, with Placido Domingo, Anna Tomowa Sintou, Georgio Zancanaro
Physical Description:
1 videocassette
Box 1
L'Africaine (Meyerbeer) - SF Opera, with Domingo, Verrett, Swenson, Diaz
Physical Description:
1 videocassette
Box 1
Cosi Fan Tutti (Mozart)
Physical Description:
1 videocassette
Box 1
Don Giovanni (Mozart) - Vienna State Opera
Physical Description:
1 videocassette
Box 1
The Magic Flute (Mozart)
Physical Description:
1 videocassette
Box 1
Marriage of Figaro (Mozart)
Physical Description:
1 videocassette
Box 1
Girl of the Golden West (Puccini) with Placido Domingo, Barbara Deniels, Sherril Milnes
Physical Description:
1 videocassette
Box 1
Tosca (Puccini) with Domingo, Malfitano, Raimundi, Zubin Mehta
1992
Physical Description:
1 videocassette
Box 1
Rossini Birthday Gala, with June Anderson, Marilyn Horne, Frederick von Stade
1992
Physical Description:
1 videocassette
Box 1
Arabella (R. Strauss)
Physical Description:
1 videocassette
Box 1
Capriccio (R. Strauss) - Salzburg Festival
1992
Physical Description:
1 videocassette
Box 1
Die Fledermaus (J. Strauss) - Royal Opera London
Physical Description:
1 videocassette
Box 2
Falstaff (Verdi) with Paul Plishka, Marilyn Horne, Mirella Freni, Frank Lopardo
Physical Description:
1 videocassette
Box 2
The Masked Ball (Verdi) - Philadelphia Opera Company, with Pavarotti
Physical Description:
1 videocassette
Box 2
Otello (Verdi) - Metropolitan Opera, with Domingo, Morris, Flemming
Physical Description:
1 videocassette
Box 2
Stifellio (Verdi) - Metropolitan Opera, with Domingo, Sharon Sweat ; Turandot (Puccini) - San Francisco Opera, with Eva
Marton
Physical Description:
1 videocassette
Box 2
La Traviata (Verdi) - New York City Opera, with Janice Hall, Stephen Mark Brown, Louis Otey
Physical Description:
1 videocassette
Box 2
Gotterdammerung (Wagner) - Metropolitan Opera, with James Morris, Siegfried Jerusalem, Hildegaard Behrens, Christie Ludwig,
Matti Salminen, Anthony Laffell, etc.
Physical Description:
1 videocassette
Box 2
Das Reingold (Wagner) - Metropolitan Opera, with James Morris, Sirfried Jerusalem, Christa Ludwig, Kari-Anne Haggander
Physical Description:
1 videocassette
Box 2
Siegfried (Wagner) - Metropolitan Opera, with Siegfried Jerusalem, Hildegaard Behrens, James Morris, Heiz Zednikl
Physical Description:
1 videocassette
Box 2
Die Walkure (Wagner) - Metropolitan Opera, with Behrens, Morris, Norman, Ludwig, Lakes, Moll
Physical Description:
1 videocassette
Box 2
Pygmalion, with Peter O'Toole, Margo Kidder ; Metropolitan Opera Silver Anniversary Gala ; 3rd Act Rigoletto, portions 3rd
Act Otello
Physical Description:
1 videocassette
Box 2
Pavarotti Plus, with Juan Pons, Barbara Dever, Deborah Voight, Stephen Mark Brown, Elizabeth Holleque, Robert Candussi, April
Milio, Eugenie Grunewald
Physical Description:
1 videocassette
Box 2
Three Tenors - Los Angeles Concert (Domingo, Carreras, Pavarotti)
1994-07-16
Physical Description:
1 videocassette
