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The Nose

BBC Radio 3
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An opera based on GOGOL'S short story
Words by Y. PREIS
Music by Shostakovich
English translation by EDWARD DOWNES
Policemen, footmen, gentlemen, students, eunuchs, dandies, acquaintances of Kovalyof and other parts sung by IAN PARTRIDGE, DUNCAN ROBERTSON, ROBERT BOWMAN (tenors) and MICHAEL RIPPON, NEILSON TAYLOR (basses)
Narrator PETER HOWELL
BBC NORTHEBN SINGERS, chorus-master STEPHEN WILKINSON
BBC NORTHERN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, leader BARRY GRIFFITHS conducted by EDWARD DOWNES
Repetiteurs RICHARD NUNN and ROGER VIGNOLES
Producer ERNEST WARBURTON
BBC Manchester (B'cast in 1972) Acts 1 and 2 8.5* The Importance of Having a Nose
VICTOR EHRLICH , Bensinger Professor of Russian Literature at Yale, talks about Gogol's short story and its background.
8.20* The Nose, Act 3

Contributors

Unknown:
Y. Preis
Translation By:
Edward Downes
Unknown:
Duncan Robertson
Tenorsi:
Robert Bowman
Tenorsi:
Michael Rippon
Basses:
Neilson Taylor
Narrator:
Peter Howell
Chorus Master:
Stephen Wilkinson
Leader:
Orches Tra
Leader:
Barry Griffiths
Conducted By:
Edward Downes
Repetiteurs:
Richard Nunn
Producer:
Ernest Warburton
Unknown:
Victor Ehrlich
Source: Radio Times

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