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Oedipus and Bluebeard

BBC Radio 3
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A double-bill of one-act operas live from the London Coliseum. Oedipus Rex by Stravinsky to a text by Cocteau, after
Sophocles. (Sung in Latin)
ENO Chorus, chorusmaster Harry Bicket ; ENO Orchestra, conductor Mark Elder
8.20 What remains of the elaborate edifice which
Freud built upon the Oedipus myth? Roy Porter talks to Juliet Mitchell about penis envy in a post-feminist age.
Producer Elizabeth Burke
8.50 Duke Bluebeard's
Castle by Bartok, to a text by Bela Balazs , sung in an English translation by John Lloyd Davies.
Bluebeard....GWYNNE HOWELL (bass)
Judith SALLY BURGESS (mezzo) ENO Orch/Mark Elder
(In association with ENO Trust)

Contributors

Unknown:
Harry Bicket
Conductor:
Mark Elder
Talks:
Roy Porter
Unknown:
Juliet Mitchell
Producer:
Elizabeth Burke
Unknown:
Bela Balazs
Translation By:
John Lloyd Davies.
Bass:
Gwynne Howell
Bass:
Judith Sally Burgess
Oedipus:
Philip Langridge (tenor)
Jocasta:
Jean Rigby(mezzo)
Creon:
Malcolm Donnelly (bar)
Tiresias:
Richard van Allan (bass)
Shepherd:
Peter Bronder (tenor)
Messenger:
Peter Sidhom (bar)
Narrator:
James Griffiths
Source: Radio Times

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