Paris and Vienna
The story of a musical rivalry that spanned a century written by Maurice Gorham and devised by Kenneth Pakeman
Pa.rt 5
Kyra Vayne Syh-ia Robin John Carolan
John Lewis
BBC Chorus
(Chorus-Master, Leslie Woodgate )
BBC Concert Orchestra
(Leader, John Sharpe )
Conductor, Gilbert Vinter
Produced by Malcolm Baker-Smith and Kenneth Pakeman
At a time when the' whole world looked to Paris and Vienna .for its music-the music of the cafes, dance halls, theatres, and boulevards-this rivalry was concentrated in the lives of three men: Jacques Offenbach, Johann Strauss , and his son Johann II.
(Kyra Vane is appearing in the season of Italian opera at the Palace Theatre, Manchester)