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An opera in two acts with a prologue
Libretto by Nancy Bush
Music by Alan Bush
(first performance in this country) peasants, townsfolk, nobles
BBC Chorus
(Chorus-Master. Leslie Woodgate )
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
(Leader. Arthur Leavins )
Conducted BY STANFORD ROBINSON
PROLOGUE
The edge of a forest in Kent: May 1381
ACT 1
Scene 1: Maidstone market-place, early June Scene 2: A room in Tyler's cottage near
Maidstone, the same evening
Scene 3: Maidstone market-place, a week later, early in the morning

Contributors

Unknown:
Nancy Bush
Music By:
Alan Bush
Chorus-Master:
Leslie Woodgate
Leader:
Arthur Leavins
Conducted By:
Stanford Robinson
Wat Tyler:
Redvers Llewellyn
John Ball:
Martin Lawrence
A herdsman:
Norman Lumsden
An escaped serf:
Andrew Gold
An elderly peasant:
Jan van Der Gucht
King Richard II:
Alexander Young
Sir Thomas Bampton:
Francis Lqring
Archbishop Sudbury:
Norman Walker
Walworth, Lord Mayor:
Ronald Evans
Earl of Salisbury:
Thomas Hemsley
A minstrel:
Cragg Sinkinson
A herald:
George Chitty
A retainer:
Stephen Manton
A clerk:
Andrew Gold
Margaret, wife of Wat Tyler:
Joan Hammond
Jennet, daughter of Wat Tyler:
April Cantelo
A fishwife:
Barbara Howitt
The Queen Mother:
Anna Pollak

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