Paris and Vienna
The story of a musical rivalry that spanned a century
Part 7
This programme tells of the closing rounds in the long contest between Jacques Offenbach in Paris and Johann Strauss in Vienna for the musical leadership of the world
Singers:
Adele Leigh
Betty Huntley-Wright
Keith Kennedy
Lloyd Strauss-Smith
(Continued in next column)
BBC Chorus
(Chorus-Master, Leslie Woodgate
BBC Concert Orchestra
(Leader. John Sharpe )
Conductor, Gilbert Vinter with Keith Pyott as the Voice of Paris and Rudolph Offenbach as the Voice of Vienna
Devised by Kenneth Pakeman and written by Maurice Gorham
Produced by Malcolm Baker-Smith and Kenneth Pakeman