How Peter Kien and Viktor Ullmann came to write and rehearse an opera, The Emperor of Atlantis, in the concentration camp of Theresienstadt (Terezin) in Czecho-Slovakia in 1944. The story is told in the words of Aaron Kramer with the voices of ANDREW BRANCH, CLAIRE FISCHER, HAROLD KASKET, HILDA KRISEMAN, ANTHONY NEWLANDS, DANNY SCHILLER, JOHN SHRAPNEL, PHILIP SULLY, STEPHEN THORNE, PHILIP Voss and Harry Towb as Kramer
Pianist RAYMOND ALSTON
Producer PIERS PLOWRIGHT
(The Emperor of Atlantis can be seen next Saturday on BBC2)