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Janacek at the Barbican

BBC Radio 3
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From the House of the Dead
BBC Radio 3's weekend festival, live from the Barbican Hall, London, continues with Janacek's three-act opera after
Dostoevsky. Sung in Czech.
Welsh National Opera Chorus
BBC Symphony Orchestra conductor Andrew Davis

Contributors

Conductor:
Andrew Davis
Filka Morozov:
Jan Blinkhof (tenor)
Skuratov:
Kim Begley (tenor)
Shishkov:
Russell Smythe (bar)
Shapkin:
Stephen Margita (tenor)
Goryanchikov:
Jan Galla (bass)
Commandant:
Norman Bailey (bar)
Alyeya:
Ruth Holton (sop)
Big Convict/KedriliCherevin:
Neil Jenkins (tenor)
Small Convict:
Nicholas Folwell (bar)
Chekunov! Don Juan:
Peter Sidhom (bar)
Prostitute:
Fiona Kimm (mezzo)
Young Convict:
Paul Harrhy (tenor)
Off-stage voice:
Robert Burt (tenor)
A Guard:
Charles Lewis (tenor)
Old Convict:
Ieuan Davies (tenor)
The Cook:
James Miller-Coburn (bar)
The Priest:
Gareth Rhys-Davies (bar)
Drunken Convict:
Michael Clifton-Thompson (tenor)
The Smith:
Ralph Hamer (bass)
Source: Radio Times

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