One of the foremost sopranos of our time, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf gave her first public masterclasses in this country at the 1980 Edinburgh Festival.
In this series of five programmes. highly acclaimed on their first showing last summer, television cameras at the Freemasons' Hall capture the humour and the rare insight with which she passes on her legendary skills to six of today's gifted young singers.
This introductory programme includes performances by all six, and shows how Schwarzkopf reveals some basic common problems in a wide range of opera and lieder. with Marilyn de Blieck
Christine Cairns , Jane Mackenzie
Richard Lloyd Morgan , Brian Scott and Christine Taylor
Accompanist ROGER VIGNOLES Narrator PETER BOLGAR Sound
RON ALLAN
Producer RODNEY GREENBERG