A musical romance by Henrik Ege , based on an original story by Annette Mills and David Blake. Lyrics and music by Annette Mills. Orchestration by Jack Beaver Carl, an opera singerJan van der Gucht
A section of the BBC Men's Chorus and the Augmented Variety Orchestra
Conducted by Louis Levy
Production by Douglas Moodie
Prologue, Vienna, 1914
The Play, Vienna, 1934. The subsequent action takes place two years later in London, and afterwards at a village in the Austrian Tyrol