Opera in two acts
Music by JAROMIR WEINBERGER Libretto by MILOS KARES English version by KINGSLEY LARK
BBC NORTHERN SINGERS BBC NORTHERN SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA conducted by VILEM TAUSKY Repetiteur JOHN BACON
Produced by ERNEST WARBURTON Act 1
3.35* during the interval Jaromir Weinberger : The True Schwartda
A talk by VILEM TAUSKY
3.50* Schwanda the Bagpiper Act 2
(Presented by the BBC as part of the 1969 Bolton Festival of Slavonic Music: given before an invited audience in the Victoria Hall, Bolton)
(Ronald Dowd broadcast by permission of the General Administrator, Royal Opera House Covent Garden)