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The Birthday of the Infanta

BBC Radio 3
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A reading by Paul McGann of OSCAR WILDE 'S children's story about the Spanish princess who gets a simple dwarf for her birthday; followed by Alexander Zemlinsky 's opera Der Zwerg based on Wilde's story, with a revised text by ADOLF DRESEN. (sop) (tenor) (bass) (SOp)
RIAS CHAMBER CHOIR
WOMEN'S VOICES BERLIN RSO/
GERD ALBRECHT. Records

Contributors

Reading By:
Paul McGann
Unknown:
Oscar Wilde
Unknown:
Alexander Zemlinsky
Unknown:
Adolf Dresen.
Unknown:
Gerd Albrecht.
Infanta:
Inga Nielsen
Dwarf:
Kenneth Riegel
Don Estoban:
Dieter Weller
Ghita, the Infanta's maid:
Beatrice Haldas
Three Maids:
Sheryl Studer (soprano)
Three Maids:
Olive Fredricks (mezzo)
Three Maids:
Marianne Hirsti (soprano)
Source: Radio Times

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