The first broadcast in this country of this Donizetti opera Libretto by ANDREA LEONE TOT-TOLA after SCRIBE and SIR WALTER SCOTT (sung in Italian) An Opera Rara production, mounted to celebrate the Queen's Jubilee, and recorded in the Collegiate Theatre, London, as part of this year's Camden Festival.
This was the first of Donizetti's operas on British historical subjects. Written in 1829, it tells the story of the unfortunate Amy Rohsart , caught between the ambitions of her husband and her Queen.
OPERA RARA CHORUS, PHILOMUSICA OF LONDON, leader JOHN WILLISON conducted by ALUN FRANCIS
8.10* A German View of Sir Walter Scott
James Trainer , Professor at the University of Stirling, argues that earliest German imitators of Scott's historical novels misunderstood the originality of his writing, and that his lasting impact was upon the work of the German realists a generation later.
8.30* II castello di Kenilworth
Act 2
9.20* Interval Reading
9.25* II castello di Kenilworth Act 3