An opera in three acts
Music by MALCOLM WILLIAMSON
Libretto by EDMUND TRACEY after the fairy play by Strindberg From the London Coliseum First broadcast performance
Christmas singers, servants, beggars, townspeople, penitents SADLER'S WELLS OPERA CHORUS chorus-master HAZEL VIVIENNE
SADLER'S WELLS OPERA ORCHESTRA leader HOWARD S. BALL conducted by JOHN BARKER Produced by JOHN COX
(Commissioned by Sadler's Wells Opera and first performed on 18 December 1969) Act 1 Scene 1 Christmas Eve in a church tower. Scene 2 By a brook in the forest
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