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' THE GYPSY BARON'

BBC Home Service
on BBC Home Service Basic

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(' Der Zigeunerbaron ')
A radio version of the operetta by Johann Strauss
Text by J. Schnitzer
Adapted from a libretto by M. Jokai based on his story ' Saffi '
English translation by Henrik Ege
Other parts played by Philip Russell and Horace Wale
BBC Midland Chorus
BBC Midland Orchestra
(Leader. James Hutcheon )
Conducted by LEO WURMSER
Narrator, Victor Hallam
Produced by Mark Lubbock
The action takes place on the outskirts of a village in Hungary and in Vienna, in the middle of the eighteenth century.

Contributors

Unknown:
Johann Strauss
Unknown:
J. Schnitzer
Unknown:
M. Jokai
Translation By:
Henrik Ege
Played By:
Philip Russell
Leader:
James Hutcheon
Conducted By:
Leo Wurmser
Narrator:
Victor Hallam
Produced By:
Mark Lubbock
Kalman Zsupan, a pig-farmer:
Dennis Noble
Arsena, his daughter:
Ellen Dales
Czipra, an old gypsy:
Janet Howe
Saffl, her foster-daughter:
Victoria Elliott
Sandor Barinkay:
Alexander Young
Count Peter Homonay:
Frederick Sharp
Source: Radio Times

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