An opera in three acts and a prologue from the poem of George Crabbe
Words by Montagu Slater
Music by Benjamin Britten
Covent Garden Opera Chorus
(Chorus-Master, Douglas Robinson)
Covent Garden Orchestra (Leader, Charles Taylor)
Conductor, Rafael Kubelik
From the Royal Opera House Covent Garden
(by arrangement with the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Ltd.)
SCENE: The Borough, a small fishing town on the East Coast of England, about 1930
Prologue
The court room at the Moot Hall
Act I
Scene 1: The Borough beach and street: a cold grey morning
Scene 2: Inside 'The Boar': that night