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