The Long Christmas Dinner Opera in one act
Libretto by THORNTON WILDER Music by Paul Hindemith (sung in English)
Lucia II JEANNETTE SINCLAIR (SOP) Roderick II
BERNARD DICKERSON (tenor)
ACADEMY OF THE BBC conducted by BERNARD KEEFFE
The scene is set in the Bayard home in mid-western America, 6.40* pm Son and Stranger
(Ileimkehr aus der Fremde) Liederspiel in one act
Libretto by c. KLINGEMANN Music by Mendelssohn
(sung in the English version by GEOFFREY DUNN )
Herr Winter , the mayor
MICHAEL RIPPON (bass)
Ursula, his wife
JOHANNA PETERS (contralto)
Lisbeth, their ward
LILLIAN WATSON (soprano)
Hermann, their son
DUNCAN ROBERTSON (tenor)
Kauz. a pedlar
LAWRENCE RICHARD (bass-bar)
Deckelkrug, the innkeeper
CYRIL ROYALL (tenor)
Berthe. his wife
PHYLLIS CLEEVE (soprano)
Strombach, the miller
JEREMY WATKINS (baSS)
Maithe, his wife
MOLLIE PETRIE (contralto)
Repetiteur ALEXA MAXWELL
BBC WEST OF ENGLAND SINGERS conductor PHILIP MOORE ACADEMY OF THE BBC conducted by BERNARD KEEFFE
The action takes place on the green outside the mayor's house in a village of Bavaria, in the early 19th century.