by John Gay
In a musical version realised from the original airs by Benjamin Britten
The English Opera Group
Chamber Orchestra
(Leader, Hans Geiger )
Conductor, Norman Del Mar
Reipetiteur, Robert Keys Producer, Basil Coleman
Scene: The Great Room at St. Gilea' where the beggars enact their opera
(Continued in next column)
Act 1
9.15 app. During the interval:
The Running Patterer
An interview by Henry Mayhew adapted by Douglas Cleverdon from ' London Labour and the London Poor' with Ernest Jay and Carleton Hobbs
9.25 app. Act 2
10 15 app. During the interval:
The Watercress Girl
An interview by Henry Mayhew adapted by Douglas Cleverdon from 'London Labour and the London Poor' with Diana Maddox and Carleton Hobbs
10.25 app. Act 3
(A second performance of the programme broadcast on December 5)
(Glenice Halliday broadcasts by permission of the Governors of Sadler's Wells; Otakar Kraus , of the General Administrator, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Ltd.)