Day of Peace
Opera in one act
Libretto by JOSEF GREGOR. Music by RICHARD STRAUSS (sung in German)
First performance in this country
Cast in order of singing:
Soldiers of the garrison and of the besieging army. towns-people
BBC NORTHERN SINGERS chorus-master
STEPHEN WILKINSON
ROYAL MANCHESTER COLLEGE OF MUSIC CHOIR chorus-master DR JOHN R. WRAY BBC NORTHERN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader REGINALD STEAD conducted by EDWARD DOWNES Repetiteur ROGER VIGNOLES Produced by ERNEST WARBURTON Time: 24 October 1648
Place: The citadel of a beleaguered town during the Thirty Years War
(Elizabeth Bainbridge, John Dobson. and Dennis Wicks broadcast by permission of the General Administrator. Royal Opera House Covent Garden; Gwynne Howell by permission of Sadler's Wells Opera Co)