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Death Takes a Holiday

BBC Radio 3
on BBC Radio 3

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)

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Kien
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Viktor Ullmann
Unknown:
Claire Fischer
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Harold Kasket
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Anthony Newlands
Unknown:
Danny Schiller
Unknown:
Philip Sully
Unknown:
Stephen Thorne
Unknown:
Philip Voss
Unknown:
Harry Towb
Pianist:
Raymond Alston
Producer:
Piers Plowright
Source: Radio Times

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Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

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