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Hear and Now: Brett Dean: Bliss

Brett Dean: Bliss

16/04/2011

BBC Radio 3 - Hear and Now, Brett Dean: Bliss

Brett Dean's opera Bliss, performed at the 2010 Edinburgh Festival.

Brett Dean's opera Bliss, based on the novel by Peter Carey and with a libretto by Amanda Holden, recorded at the 2010 Edinburgh International Festival.

Tom Service presents the broadcast premiere of Brett Dean's three act opera Bliss, based on the novel by Peter Carey. Peter Coleman-Wright stars as Harry Joy the advertising executive with a dysfunctional family, who sees his life for what it really is following a heart attack. Between the acts Tom talks to the composer, to the opera's librettist Amanda Holden and to the critic Anna Picard. Plus, a recording of Dean's 2006 orchestral work Komarov's Fall, commissioned by the Berlin Philharmonic and inspired by the story of Soviet cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov's ill-fated mission at the height of the space race in 1967.

Brett Dean and Amanda Holden: Bliss

Harry Joy ..... Peter Coleman-Wright 
Betty Joy ..... Merlyn Quaife
Honey B ..... Lorina Gore
Alex Duval ..... Barry Ryan
David .....David Corcoran
Lucy ..... Taryn Fiebig 
Johnny Davis ..... Kanen Breen
Reverend Des/Police Officer/Nurse ..... Shane Lowrencev
Aldo/Nigel Clunes ..... Henry Choo
Mrs Dalton ..... Milijana Nikolic 
Nurses ..... Sharon Olde, Jane Parkin
Police Officer/Betty's Doctor ..... Stephen Smith
Neighbour/Asylum Doctor ..... Malcolm Ede
Managing Directors ..... Malcolm Ede, Christopher Hillier, David Lewis, Sam Roberts-Smith, Sam Sakker

Opera Australia 
BBC Symphony Orchestra 
Elgar Howarth ..... conductor

Recorded at the Edinburgh International Festival in September 2010.

11.50pm
Brett Dean: Komarov's Fall

BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Andre de Ridder ..... conductor.

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