Opera In a prologue and four acts
Music by Borodin, In a newly-edited version by David Lloyd-Jones
Libretto by THE COMPOSER after a story by v. v. STASSOV, based on a medieval Russian epic poem sung in the English translation by STEVEN PIMLOTT and DAVID LLOYD -JONES.
Opera North's production the first fully-professional British one since the war, comes direct from the Palace Theatre, Manchester
In a story whose plot and sub-plots allow for brilliant and colourful music, Prince Igor ignores evil portents and goes to war against the Polovtsl, a Tartar tribe. Defeated, he becomes their prisoner, refuses a pact, escapes and returns home to his people's Joy. Igor, Prince of Seversk MALCOLM DONNELLY (bar)
Prince Vladimir Gatitzky
Skula and Evoshka, gudok players and deserters from Igor's army
JOHN MICHAEL FLANAGAN
(bass bar),
GRAEME MATHESON-BRUCE (tenor)
Yaroslavna, Igor's second
Wife...MARGARET CURPHEY
(soprano)
Nurse ...... VALERIE BAULARD
(mezzo-soprano)
Polovtsian girl
SHIRLEY THOMAS (SOp)
Konchakovna, daughter of Khan Konchak
GILLIAN KNIGHT (meZZO-SOp) Ovlur, a Polovtsian turned
Christian
PHILIP MILLS (tenor)
Khan Konchak ,
Polovtsian prince
RODERICK KENNEDY (bass)
Chorus of Opera North chorus-master
JOHN PRYCE-JONES English Northern Philharmonla leader DAVID GREED conductor
David Lloyd-Jones
Act1ith (Given in association with Norwest Hoist Ltd)