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IOLANTHE

BBC Home Service
on BBC Home Service Basic

or The Peer and the Peri
An operetta in two acts
Words by W. S. GILBERT
Music by ARTHUR SULLIVAN
Sadler's Wells Opera production
From the Royal Shakespeare Theatre Stratford-upon-Avon
Dukes, Marquises, Earls, Viscounts. Barons, and Fairies
BAND OF the IRISH GUARDS
Director of Music. Major C. H. Jaeger (By permission of Col. J. W. Berridge , M.B.E., Lt.-Col. Commanding Irish Guards)
SADLER'S WELLS CHORUS
Chorus-Master, John Barker
SADLER'S WELLS ORCHESTRA Leader. Brian Thomas
Conductor, ALEXANDER FARIS Producer, Frank Hauser
The action takes place between 1700 and 1882. Act 1: An Arcadian landscape
See page 19

Contributors

Unknown:
W. S. Gilbert
Music By:
Arthur Sullivan
Unknown:
H. Jaeger
Unknown:
Col. J. W. Berridge
Chorus-Master:
John Barker
Leader:
Brian Thomas
Conductor:
Alexander Faris
Producer:
Frank Hauser
The Lord Chancellor:
Eric Shilling
Earl of Mountararat:
Denis Dowling
Earl Tolloller:
Stanley Bevan
Private Willis:
Leon Greene
Strephon, an Arcadian shepherd:
Julian Moyle
Queen of the Fairies:
Heather Begg
Iolanthe, a fairy, Strephon's mother:
Patricia Kern
Phyllis, an Arcadian shepherdessand Ward in Chancery:
Elizabeth Harwood
Celia:
Elizabeth Robson
Leila:
Cynthia Morey
Fleta:
Marjorie Ward
Source: Radio Times

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