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Hopkins the Factory Worker

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(Maschinist Hopkins) Opera in a prologue and three acts
Words and music by Max Brand Sung in the English version by ELIZABETH FORBES
One of Weimar Germany's greatest operatic hits, this 1929 story of blackmail and prostitution, high finance and workers' rights embraces everything from jazz to serialism to make its point.
Other workers and machines: BBC SINGERS chorus-master RON CORP Black Bottom routine:
LONDON SINFONIETTA VOICES director TERRY EDWARDS
THE BRAND NEW BAND director JOHN HARLE (saxophone) PERRY MONTAGUE MASON (violin) BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA leader ROY GILLARD conducted by SIMON JOLY Repetiteur JAMES HOLMES Technical presentation by JOHN RUSHBY SMITH and PETER SIDHOM
Producer CLIVE BENNETT (R) Prologue and Act 1
8.50* Act 2
9.25*Act3

Contributors

Music By:
Max Brand
Unknown:
Elizabeth Forbes
Director:
Terry Edwards
Director:
John Harle
Violin:
Perry Montague Mason
Leader:
Roy Gillard
Conducted By:
Simon Joly
Repetiteur:
James Holmes
Presentation By:
John Rushby Smith
Producer:
Clive Bennett
Hopkins:
Malcolm Donnelly (baritone)
Bill:
Graham Clark (tenor)
Jim:
John Tranter (bass)
Nell:
Marie Slorach (soprano)
Company secretary:
Roderick Earle (bass)
Head of Personnel:
William MacKie (bass)
Theatre director:
Jonathan Best (bass)
Music director:
Alan Oke (bar)
Regisseur:
Francis Egerton (ten)
Fireman:
Eric Shilling (bar)
Night-club singer:
Rosemary Ashe (soprano)
Nell's first client spoken by:
Alan Dudley
Nell's first client sung by:
Stephen Jackson (bar)
Nell's second client role):
Mark Straker (spoken
Source: Radio Times

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