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The Fairy Queen

on BBC Radio 3

Music by Purcell
Adapted from WILLIAM Shake SPEARE'S comedy A Midsummer Night's Dream, and interspersed with various masques by ELKIANAH SETTLE
The English Music Theatre Company production direct from Sadler's Wells Theatre, London
The play is given in two Pants and a Prologue: the scene is set in A Wood, with various transformations to Titamia's Bower, An Enchanted Lake, and A Chinese Garden. The Actors in the Play
The Singers in the Various Masques
IRIS saunweiRis (scpnano)
ANN MURRAY (mezzo-soprano) JOHN YORK SKINNEIR ( eou mter- 1 enor)
Nbil jenkins (tenor)
JOHN TOM LIN SON (baGS) MEMBERS OF THE
ENGLISH MUSIC THEATRE COMPANY
ENGLISH MUSIC THEATRE ORCHESTRA leader Jonathan straniGB
NICHOLAS KRAEMER
( ha rpsii chord eonrtinuo) conductor steuairt bedfom director COLIN GRAHAM Prologue and Part 1
8.50* A Second Orpheus
An anthology of poems about Purcell by his contemporaries chosen and read by DAVID LLOYD JAMES
9.10* The Fairy Queen Part 2 (Britten's A Midsummer Night' Dream: 12 June)

Contributors

Unknown:
William Shake
Mezzo-Soprano:
Ann Murray
Mezzo-Soprano:
John York
Leader:
Jonathan Stranigb
Leader:
Nicholas Kraemer
Director:
Colin Graham
Read By:
David Lloyd James
Peter Quince, carp enter and poet (Prologue)..:
Michael Bauer
PUCk:
Robert Ipjguendn
A Fadry:
Cathewine Sydee
Oberon, King of the Fairies:
Michael Bulman
Titanfia, the Fairy Queen:
Susan Daniel
An Indian boy:
Peter Crowe
Deimetnius, in love with Hermia:
Peter Savidge
Helena, in love with Demetrius:
Penelope MacRay
Lysander, betrothed to Hermia:
Martin McEvoy
Hermia:
Judith Rebs
N,ick Bottom, weaver:
Donald Stephenson
Tom Snout, tinker:
Christopher Booth-Jones
Robin Starveling, taiiflor:
Alexander Magri
Francis Flute, beHows-<mendeir:
Justin Lavender
Snug, joiner:
Glyn Davenport

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