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Opera in three acts
Libretto by Gabriela Preissova
English version by Vida Harford
Music by Janacek
BBC Opera Chorus
(Trained by Alan G. Melville )
BBC Opera Orchestra (Leader. John Sharpe )
Conducted by Rafael Kubelik
Repetiteur, Vida Harford
Scene: A mountain village in Moravia &t the end of the nineteenth cemtury
Act 1
In front of a small mill. Evening

Contributors

Unknown:
Alan G. Melville
Leader:
John Sharpe
Conducted By:
Rafael Kubelik
Repetiteur:
Vida Harford
Grandmother Buryja:
Mary Jarred
Stewa, her grandson:
Raymond Nilsson
Laca his half-brother:
John Lanigan
Mother Buryja. widow of the sexton, daughter-in-law of Grandmother Buryja:
Doris Doree
Jenufa, her foster-daughter:
Gre Brouwenstijn
Foreman of the mill:
Arnold Matters
Barena, servant at the mill:
Olivia Rossi
The Magistrate:
Edmund Donlevy
His wife:
Elsie Boardman
Karolka their daughter:
Marion Davies
A maid:
Mildred Watson
Jano a shepherd:
Beryl Hatt
The Aunt:
Irene Brightman

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