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Doctor Cupid

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Comic opera in two acts
Libretto by Enrico Golisciani after Moliere's comedy L'Amour Medecin
English version by Claude Avelino
Music by Wolf-Ferrari
Cast in order of singing:
Doctors:
A chorus of servants
BBC Northern Singers
Chorus-Master, Stephen Wilkinson
BBC Northern Symphony Orchestra
Leader, Reginald Stead
Conducted by John Matheson
Repetiteur, John Bacon
Produced by Ernest Warburton

ACT 1
The garden of Don Arnolfo's house

ACT 2
A drawing-room in Don Arnolfo's house

First broadcast performance in this country

(Eric Shilling broadcasts by permission of Sadler's Wells Opera Co.)

See page 39

Contributors

Unknown:
Enrico Golisciani
Chorus-Master:
Stephen Wilkinson
Conducted By:
John Matheson
Repetiteur:
John Bacon
Produced By:
Ernest Warburton
Don Arnolfo a wealthy landowner:
Eric Shilling (baritone)
Lucinda, his daughter:
Ellen Dales (soprano)
Lisetta, their housekeeper:
Patricia Reakes (soprano)
Clitandro, a young man:
Kenneth Bowen (tenor)
Tomes:
Michael Rippon (bass)
Desfondandres:
John Heddle Nash (baritone)
Macroton:
William Elvin (baritone)
Bahis:
Adrian Be Peyer (tenor)
A notary:
Jolyon Dodgson (bass-baritone)
Source: Radio Times

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