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Jiri Benda's Medea

BBC Radio 3
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The first broadcast of a newly prepared version of this celebrated one-act Melodrama, about the revenge of the dispossessed Queen of Corinth. Libretto by GOTTER. English translation by RICHARD LUCKETT
Narrator JOHN LIVESEY
ACADEMY OF ANCIENT MUSIC leader
CATHERINE MACKINTOSH conductor
CHRISTOPHER HOGWOOD
Producers CLIVE BENNETT and IAN COTTERELL

Contributors

Translation By:
Richard Luckett
Conductor:
Catherine MacKintosh
Conductor:
Christopher Hogwood
Producers:
Clive Bennett
Producers:
Ian Cotterell
Medea:
Barbara Jefford
Jason, her former husband:
John Turner
Their children::
Jane Knowles
Their children::
Christine Absalom
Source: Radio Times

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