Opera in three acts and ten scenes
Text by JOHN MCGRATH and ALEXANDER GOEHR
Music by Alexander Goehr (first performance)
Set in Munster, during the Anabaptist revolution, the opera dispassionately examines how Man's ideals are compromised by his nature. Anabaptists from Leyden: (bass-baritone) (soprano) (tenor)
(mezzo-soprano) (soprano) (baritone) (bass) (mezzo-soprano)
Prince-Bishop, defender of the faith and destroyer of the (bass) (tenor) (tenor) (bass)
In the play of Dives and Lazarus in Act 3 (tenor)
TIFFIN BOYS' CHOIR chorusmaster NEVILLE CREED BBC SINGERS chorusmaster SIMON JOLY BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA led by BELA DEKANY
Associate conductors
SIMON JOLY and RAY HOLDEN conducted by JOHN PRITCHARD
8.35* Alexander Goehr and John Deathridge discuss the opera's genesis and form.
8.55* Act 2
9.35* David March reads from The Pursuit of the Millennium by NORMAN COHN , the book which acted as the starting point for the opera
9.45* Act 3
Producer CUVE BENNETT
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