Comedie-lyrique in a prologue and three acts Libretto by LE VALOIS
D'ORVILLE, after JACQUES AUTREAU. Music by Rameau. (sung in French) Prologue: La naissance de la comedie: Satyre
STEPHEN VARCOE (bass)
Thespis, inventor of comedy
WILLIAM KENDALL (tenor)
Thalie, muse of comedy
GILLIAN FISHER (sop)
Momus, God of Jollity
RICHARD JACKSON (bass)
L'amour
ELIZABETH PARCELLS (sop)
Comedie:
Citheron, King of Greece
RICHARD JACKSON (bass)
Mercure
PHILIP LANGRIDGE (tenor)
Platee, a swamp nymph
JEAN-CLAUDE ORUAC (tenor)
Clarine, one of her followers
GILLIAN FISHER (sop)
Jupiter ................................ALAN WATT (bass) Momus
CHRISTOPHER GILLETT (tenor) La Folie
ELIZABETH PARCELLS (sop)
JunO SARAH WALKER (sop) THE RAGLAN BAROQUE SINGERS THE RAGLAN BAROQUE PLAYERS leader AUSON BERRY TIMOTHY MASON (cello continuo), JOHN TOLL
(harpsichord continuo) directed by NICHOLAS KRAEMER
Producer NICHOLAS ANDERSON (A BBC Radio 3 production for the EBU)