One ot the toremosi sopranos of our time gave her first public masterclasses in this country at the 1980 Edinburgh Festival.
In a series of five programmes, television cameras at the Free-masons' Hall capture the humour and the rare insight with which
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf passes on her legendary skills to six of today's gifted young singers. This introductory programme includes performances by all six, and shows how Schwarzkopf reveals some basic common problems in a wide range of opera and lieder. with MARILYN DE BLIECK
CHRISTINE CAIRNS
JANE MACKENZIE
RICHARD LLOYD MORGAN
BRIAN SCOTT and CHRISTINE TAYLOR
Accompanist ROGER VIGNOLES Narrator PETER BOLGAR
Sound RON ALLAN
Lighting JAMES MAIDEN
Producer RODNEY GREENBERG fin her next Masterclass on Thursday at
10.0 pm, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf works on arias from Mozart's Don Giovanni and The Marriage of Figaro)