An opera by Jacques Offenbach. Translation and radio adaptation from the original libretto of Hector Cremieux by Geoffrey Dunn. Produced by John Glyn -Jones Goehr
and Walter Goehr
Immortals:
Jupiter, Juno, Venus. Diana, Cupid, Mercury, and Pluto
Mortals:
Orpheus, Eurydice, Madame Comme -Il-Faut, and John Styx
Singers: Minnia Bower. Linda Gray , Kathleen Burgis , Isabelita Alonso , Betty Hutchings Trefor Jones,
Edmund Donlevy , Dennis Bowen. and Frith Ban6ury
Actors: Ann Codrington , Mary Jones , Joan Sterndale Bennett. Wilfrid Babbage , and John Bryning
Narrator: Ronald Simpson
BBC Theatre Chorus
(Chorus-Master, John Clements )
BBC Theatre Orchestra (Leader. Alfred Barker )
Conductor, Walter Goehr