20:30

First performance of "Manana"

Wed 1^st Feb 1956, 20:30 on BBC Television

(See facing page and page 5)

An opera for television by Arthur Benjamin.
Place: A remote Spanish village in the High Sierra.

A section of the Glyndebourne Festival Chorus
(Chorus-Master, Peter Gellhorn)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
(Leader, Arthur Leavins)
Conducted by Edward Renton
At 8.30

(Frederick Sharp appears by permission of Sadler's Wells Trust, Ltd.; Edith Coates and Ronald Lewis appear by permission of the General Administrator, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Ltd.)

Contributors

Composer:: Arthur Benjamin
Libretto/Producer:: George R. Foa
Libretto/Based on "Under the Juniper Tree" by:: Caryl Brahms
Singers:: A section of the Glyndebourne Festival Chorus
Chorus-Master:: Peter Gellhorn
Musicians:: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Orchestra leader:: Arthur Leavins
Conductor:: Edward Renton
Repetiteur:: Denys Darlow
Dance arranged by:: null Eduardo
Designer:: Stephen Bundy
Costumes:: Elizabeth Agombar
The Wise Man:: Frederick Sharp
The Widow:: Edith Coates
Luisita, her niece and ward:: Heather Harper
Pedro, Luisita's lover:: Carlos Montes
Conchita:: Naida Labay
Pia:: Patricia Kern
Third woman:: Sheila Young
The Mayor:: Ivor Evans
The Innkeeper:: William Dickie
Dolores, the innkeeper's wife:: null Rani
Jose:: Ronald Lewis
Carlos, his little son:: David Langford
The Pickpocket:: Edmund Donlevy
The Lazy Man:: Niven Miller
First villager:: David Oddie
Second villager:: Brian Douglas
Guitar player:: Julian Bream
Flamenco singer:: Gita de la Fuente

Source: Radio Times

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