20:00

Othello

Thu 1^st Oct 1959, 20:00 on BBC Television

An opera by Giuseppe Verdi
Libretto by Arrigo Boito
English translation by Eric Crozier
[Starring] Charles Holland, Heidi Krall, and Ronald Lewis

Place: harbour fortress in Cyprus. Time: beginning of sixteenth century

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (Leader, Steven Staryk)
Conducted by Bryan Balkwill
Glyndebourne Festival Chorus
(Chorus-Master, Peter Gellhorn)
Ealing Grammar School Boys' Choir
Conductor, John Railron
(See page 6)

(Heidi Krall appears by arrangement with the Metropolitan Opera House, New York; Ronald Lewis and Forbes Robinson appear by arrangement with the General Administrator Royal Opera House, Covent Garden Ltd.; Barbara Howitt by arrangement with the Sadler's Wells Opera Company)

Contributors

Composer:: Giuseppe Verdi
Libretto:: Arrigo Boito
English Translation:: Eric Crozier
Musicians:: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Leader:: Steven Staryk
Conductor:: Bryan Balkwill
Associate Conductor:: Brian Priestman
Singers:: Glyndebourne Festival Chorus
Chorus-master:: Peter Gellhorn
Singers:: Ealing Grammar School Boys' Choir
Conductor:: John Railron
Wardrobe Supervision:: Olive Harris
Make-up Supervision:: Rosemary Ross
Choreography:: Margaret Dale
Designer:: Clifford Hatts
Producer:: Rudolph Cartier
Othello, the Moor, Admiral of the Venetian Fleet:: Charles Holland
Iago, his 'Ancient' (Ensign):: Ronald Lewis
Cassio, Captain:: John Ford
Roderigo, a Venetian nobleman:: John Kentish
Lodovico, Ambassador of the Republic of Venice:: Forbes Robinson
Montano, Othello's predecessor as Governor of Cyprus:: James Atkins
A herald:: George MacPherson
Desdemona, Othello's wife:: Heidi Krall
Emilia, Iago's wife:: Barbara Howitt
Soldiers and sailors, Venetian noblemen and ladies, Cypriots:: [artists uncredited]

Source: Radio Times

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