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Workshop: Purgatory

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A special edition featuring a new opera jointly commissioned by BBC-2 and the Cheltenham Festival.

Music by the young English composer Gordon Crosse and words by W.B. Yeats from his one-act play Purgatory - a violent Irish story of murder in a doomed family.
The opera produced by Vladek Sheybal who is seen at work with the composer and the cast.
The New Opera Company
The Delphos Ensemble
Leader, Jurgen Hess

Contributors

Composer/Subject:
Gordon Crosse
Text:
W.B. Yeats
Producer/Subject:
Vladek Sheybal
Singers:
The New Opera Company
Musicians:
The Delphos Ensemble
Leader:
Jurgen Hess
Musical Director:
Leon Lovett
Associate Conductor:
Alan Boustead
Designer:
Lionel Radford
Director:
Patrick Garland
Old man:
Raimund Herincx
The boy:
Bernard Dickerson
Source: Radio Times

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