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The Birthday of the Infanta

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Three versions of the children's story by Oscar Wilde about a dwarf who died of shame.
Paul McGann reads an abridgment of Wilde's original story.

7.45 Franz Schreker's 1908 ballet Der Geburtstag der Infantin (first UK performance)

8.10 Zemlinsky's 1921 opera The Dwarf (Der Zwerg) in a new English version by Ian Brunskill and Gwen Hughes.

Members of the BBC Singers, chorusmaster Stephen Jackson
BBC SO/Lothar Zagrosek

Contributors

Author:
Oscar Wilde
Reader:
Paul McGann
Librettist:
Ian Brunskill
Librettist:
Gwen Hughes
Singers:
BBC Singers
Chorusmaster:
Stephen Jackson
Musicians:
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Conductor:
Lothar Zagrosek
Producer:
Clive Bennett
Producer:
Martin Cotton
Spanish Infanta:
Christine Whittiesey (soprano)
Ghita, her maid:
Marilyn Hill Smith (soprano)
Dwarf, her 18th birthday present:
Graeme Matheson-Bruce (tenor)
Don Estoban, the head of the royal household:
Nicholas Folwell (baritone)
Infanta's friend:
Gaynor Morgan (soprano)
Infanta's friend:
Carol Smith (soprano)
Infanta's friend:
Jane Webster (soprano)
Source: Radio Times

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