by DAVID POWNALL With music by Gesualdo, Peter Warlock and Stephen Boxer
The Paines Plough Production of a musical reworking of the lives of two composers, Carlo Gesualdo , an Italian prince, contemporary of Shakespeare, who composed motets and madrigals from the death of his first wife in 1590 to his own death in 1613. and Philip Heseltine , alias Peter Warlock , born 1894 and who committed suicide in 1930 after a career as music critic and composer. Helen Euterpe , MARY ELLEN RAY Federigo/Carafa...edward ADAMS Philip Heseltine. Stephen BOXER Carlo Gesualdo ..... ERIC RICHARD Maria D'Avalas .... FIONA VICTORY Additional singing by DIANA KYLE
Produced and directed by GUY VAESEN