by PIER FRANCESCO CAVALLI from the Theatre Royal, Glasgow, RAYMOND LEPPARD 'S realisation of Cavalli's exotic opera L'Egisto in the spectacular production for Scottish Opera by JOHN cox.
Scenery, costumes and lighting design by ALLEN CHARLES KLEIN
L'Egisto is an opera about love, with all its pains and pleasures. The fates of two pairs of lovers are in the hands of capricious gods whose dramatic appearances bring both the first two acts to a climax.
Cavalli's glorious music urges the action on through comedy, intense drama and the anguish of lost love, but with Cupid's help, it is love that triumphs in the end.
The libretto by GIOVANNI FAUSTINO is sung in Italian with English subtitles.
With LINDA ORMISTON , SUSANNA ROSS ROSANNE BRACKENRIDGE
BEVERLEY MILLS, VIDA SCHEPENS
RODERICK KENNEDY , UNA
BUCHANAN CLAIRE LIVINGSTONE , TOM MCDONNELL SCOTTISH OPERA CHORUS
SCOTTISH OPERA ORCHESTRA leader ANGUS ANDERSON conducted by Raymond Leppard Introduced by JOHN COX
Engineering manager JOHN BUCK Sound RON ALLAN, TONY KIME Lighting ALAN HENDERSON Producer
NORMAN MCCANDLISH Director
DAVID BUCKTON BBC Scotland
(On Saturday 9 October, a Welsh National Opera production of Katya Kabanova, starring Elisabeth SOderstrom)