Performance audiobooks

Richard Wagner: Siegfried

By: Richard Wagner

Narrated by: Jürgen Fritsche

Length: 2 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Der dritte Teil des wohl berühmtesten Opern-Zyklus aller Zeiten: Siegfried erstarkt, schmiedet Notung, das Schwert, neu, und besiegt Wotan. Er erklimmt den Walkürenfelsen und erweckt Brünnhilde, die in Liebe entbrennt. Mit dabei: Ein pdf-Dokument mit allen Szenen. Read more

How The Dallas Street Choir Grants Homeless Residents A Voice

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 6 minutes

Abridged: No

The mantra of the Dallas Street Choir is “homeless, not voiceless.” Some
2,000 singers have passed through the group in the last five years, seeking
support, artistic expression and community as they contend with life on the
streets. The organization also aims to raise awareness of Dallas’ growing
homelessness problem, even as the city’s economy... Read more

Richard Wagner: Götterdämmerung

By: Richard Wagner

Narrated by: Jürgen Fritsche

Length: 1 hour 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Der vierte Teil des wohl berühmtesten Opern-Zyklus aller Zeiten: Durch Intrigen wird Siegfried dazu verleitet, Brünnhilde zu vergessen und Gutrune, Gunthers Schwester, zu erobern. Gunther hilft er, Brünnhilde zu besiegen. Siegfried fällt – die Rheinnixen erhalten den Ring zurück. Mit dabei: Ein pdf-Dokument mit allen Szenen. Read more

Richard Wagner: Das Rheingold

By: Richard Wagner

Narrated by: Jürgen Fritsche

Length: 1 hour 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Der erste Teil des wohl berühmtesten Opernzyklus aller Zeiten: Der Ring des Nibelungen. Zwerg Alberich raubt das Rheingold. Gott Wotan wiederum schuldet den Riesen Fasolt und Fafner den Lohn für deren Fertigstellung der Festung Walhalla: Freia, die Quelle der Jugend für die Götter. Aus dem Rheingold wird ein Ring geschmiedet, der Allmacht... Read more

Richard Wagner: Die Walküre

By: Richard Wagner

Narrated by: Jürgen Fritsche

Length: 1 hour 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Der zweite Teil des wohl berühmtesten Opern-Zyklus aller Zeiten: Siegmund und Sieglinde treffen einander wieder – und entbrennen in Liebe. Ihr gemeinsamer Sohn ist Siegfried. Brünnhilde, die Walküre, will Siegmund helfen – und wird dafür von Wotan auf den Walkürenfelsen verbannt. Mit dabei: Ein pdf-Dokument mit allen Szenen. Read more

Dragnet: Volume 1

By: Jack Webb

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Dragnet was an American radio series, enacting the cases of a dedicated Los Angeles police detective, Sergeant Joe Friday, and his partners. The show took its name from the police term dragnet, meaning a system of coordinated measures for apprehending criminals or suspects. This volume contains episodes of Dragnet that released between 1949 and... Read more

Dragnet: Volume 2

By: Jack Webb

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Dragnet was an American radio series, enacting the cases of a dedicated Los Angeles police detective, Sergeant Joe Friday, and his partners. The show took its name from the police term dragnet, meaning a system of coordinated measures for apprehending criminals or suspects. This volume contains episodes of Dragnet that released between 1952 and... Read more

The Death of Ivan Ilych

By: Leo Tolstoy

Narrated by: Edison McDaniels

Length: 2 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Leo Tolstoy's timeless tale of a court official's long and drawn out death is both a masterful metaphysical exploration of the meaning of death, and a masterstroke of inspirational storytelling. First published in 1886, this classic of Russian literature is considered one of the great examples of the novella in all of literary fiction. An... Read more

Beichtgang - Fiktive Autobiografie eines katholischen Hauptlehrersohns (ungekürzt)

By: Christian Bedor

Narrated by: Christian Bedor

Length: 5 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Thomas Lehr wächst Ende der 50er Jahre als jüngstes von vier Geschwistern in der Schule eines kleinen deutschen Dorfes auf. Er wird von seinen Eltern und der Kirche auch mit körperlicher Strafe streng katholisch erzogen. Anfangs lebt er in der Welt der Zehn Gebote, glaubt an aufrichtige Liebe, Ehrlichkeit und Gehorsam. Für seinen Vater, der... Read more

Yearning For ‘Peace,’ When A Greek Refugee Camp Has Become Hell

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Five years into Europe's migration crisis, the conditions in the notorious
Moria camp on the Greek island of Lesbos are hellish. Refugee children are
especially vulnerable, facing hunger, bad sanitation and the threat of
violence. Special correspondent Malcolm Brabant reports that angry local
residents are demanding a solution. Read more

Kevin Wilson’s Novel “Nothing To See Here” Makes Fun Of Your Child’S Meltdown

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 6 minutes

Abridged: No

A new, acclaimed novel takes a young child's meltdown and turns it into a
surreal satire of modern life. In "Nothing to See Here," author Kevin
Wilson uses a universal experience of parenthood to explore some incendiary
family dynamics. Wilson sits down with Jeffrey Brown for a conversation. Read more

The "Speechless: Different By Design" Exhibit Uses Brain Science To Inform Art

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 6 minutes

Abridged: No

At the exhibition "Speechless: Different by Design," touching pieces of art
is actually encouraged. As Jeffrey Brown reports, the Dallas Museum of Art
show -- created as a collaboration between designers and brain researchers
-- explores how people interact with their surroundings and how they
communicate with each other. Read more

The Long History Of Presidents As Authors

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Journalist and historian Craig Fehrman has written a book called “Author in
Chief: The Untold Story of Our Presidents and the Books They Wrote.” He
sits down with John Yang to discuss the long history of presidential
writing, the strategy of publishing a book before an important political
campaign and behind-the-scenes glimpses at presidents’... Read more

In These Parts Of Greece, Crisis Is Building Between Residents And Migrants

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Amid growing unrest in Greece, the government there is temporarily halting
construction of permanent detention centers for asylum seekers. Tens of
thousands of migrants have been stranded in the country for more than four
years, since its border with Macedonia was sealed and the European Union
failed to find enough alternative destinations.... Read more

Barnabas, Quentin and the Mummy's Curse

By: Marilyn Ross

Narrated by: Kathryn Leigh Scott

Length: 5 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Barnabas, Quentin and the Mummy's Curse (April 1970)

When Professor Anthony Collins decides to catalog his Egyptian relics at Collinwood, he brings with him the mummy of King Rehotip, who “died” over two thousand years ago. Only the professor knows that Rehotip is really in a state of suspended animation.

One night, the professor brings the... Read more

Barnabas Collins and the Gypsy Witch

By: Marilyn Ross

Narrated by: Kathryn Leigh Scott

Length: 5 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Barnabas Collins and the Gypsy Witch (March 1970)

Warned by a gypsy witch that violent death will surround her, Roxanna Collins turns to her distant cousin, Barnabas, for help.

But Barnabas is also in trouble. For when Roxanna’s father and brother are murdered, suspicion centers on Barnabas. Even Roxanna, who feels she is under some strange... Read more

Behind the Sheet

By: Charly Evon Simpson

Narrated by: Monica McSwain, Matthew Floyd Miller, Dominique...

Length: 2 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

An important medical breakthrough has a shameful history. In 1840's Alabama, a slave-owning doctor performs medical experiments on involuntary subjects - enslaved women - in an effort to solve the problem of fistulas, a post-childbirth anomaly. As the experiments proceed, and he gets close to a solution, the women try to survive and even find... Read more

Kachecha Chandra

By: Suresh Khare

Narrated by: Various Narrators

Length: 1 hour 35 minutes

Abridged: No

मराठी रंगभूमीवर काही वर्षांपूर्वी सादर झालेल्या 'काचेचा चंद्र' या नाटकाच्या जाहिरातीची तेव्हा 'बोल्ड'म्हणून प्रसिद्धी झाली होती. Read more

Macbeth

By: William Shakespeare

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 1 hour 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Foretold he will be king, Macbeth embarks on a path of murderous treason, stopping at nothing to seize the throne...Recorded at Glamis Castle in Scotland with a full cast, Almost Tangible's multi-award winning Macbeth is a gripping, immersive sound experience that puts the listener at the heart of the action in Shakespeare's epic drama about... Read more

Isabel Allende's Newest Historical Novel Tells Familiar Story Of Refugee Life PBS NewsHour

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 5 minutes

Abridged: No

"A Long Petal of the Sea," a new historical novel by renowned writer Isabel
Allende, draws upon events spanning from the Spanish civil war to the 1973
coup in her native Chile -- and with resonance for the experience of
refugees today. Allende sits down with Jeffrey Brown to discuss how she
drew on facts to tell her story, and why her last three... Read more

India's Effort To Clean Up Sacred But Polluted Ganga River

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 5 minutes

Abridged: No

The Ganga River, known as the Ganges under British rule, is one of the most
revered waterways in the world -- and also among the most polluted.
Stretching from the Himalayan foothills to the Bay of Bengal, it provides
water to nearly half a billion people, more than any other river in the
world. Special correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro reports... Read more

David Dean Bottrell Makes Love: A One-Man Show

By: David Dean Bottrell

Narrated by: David Dean Bottrell

Length: 2 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Presenting an original audiobook performance of the stage production of David Dean Bottrell Makes Love: A One-Man Show, starring actor-Writer-Monologist, David Dean Bottrell.

In the newly revised 2019 version of the show, David Dean Bottrell performed his highly-acclaimed comic storytelling show that the Los Angeles Times called "hysterical" and... Read more

Gosht Janmantarichi

By: Vasant Kanetkar

Narrated by: Various Narrators

Length: 1 hour 56 minutes

Abridged: No

जगातले कोणतेही दु:ख, कोणतीही समस्या पहिली नसते किंवा अखेरची. प्रत्येक पुढच्याला ठेच लागलेली असते, पण मागचे कोणीच शहाणे होत नाहीत. या अर्थाने होणारी इतिहासाची पुनरावृत्ती म्हणजेच 'गोष्ट जन्मांतरीची'. जन्मजन्मांतरी केवळ घटनाच परत परत तशाच घडतात; असे नाही तर माणसेही पुन:पुन्हा तसाच विचार करतात, तसेच शब्द बोलतात आणि त्याच त्या कृती करत राहतात. या... Read more

This Philadelphia Art Exhibit Pushes The Envelope With Designs For The Future

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 6 minutes

Abridged: No

What will the future look like? That’s the big question posed by a new
exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Eighty designers from around
the world have put their imaginations to work, leveraging both anxiety and
excitement over the possibilities offered by innovation and new technology.
Jeffrey Brown reports. Read more