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0 Opera in three acts
Music by Verdi
Libretto by ANTONIO SOMMA after Scribe
Sung in Italian gramophone records
RENATA CORTIGLIONI CHILDREN'S Choir
RCA ITALIANA OPERA
CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA
Conducted by ERICH LEINSDORF
The action takes place in Boston In the late seventeenth century
ACT 1
Scene 1 A reception room in Riccardo's house
Scene 2 Ulrica's hut by the sea-shore
3.53* First interval
4.3* Act 2
At the gallows outside the city
4.38* Second interval
4.48* ACT 3 Scene 1
A study in Renato's house Scene 2
A study in Riccardo's house. changing to the ballroom
■d
During the intervals
SCARLATTI SONATAS played by GEORGE MALCOLM (harpsichord) gramophone record

Contributors

Unknown:
Renata Cortiglioni
Conducted By:
Erich Leinsdorf
Harpsichord:
George Malcolm

by William Shakespeare with music by JOHN HOTCHKIS
John Gielgud as King Lear with Virginia McKenna as Cordelia Howard Marion-Crawford as Kent
Barbara Jefford as Goneril
Barbara Bolton as Regan Timothy Bateson as the Fool
Mark Dignam as Gloucester Derek Godfrey as Edmund Philip Guard as Edgar Michael Goodliffe as Albany Roger Delgado as Cornwall
Characters in order of speaking:
Daughters to Lear:
Scene: Britain
Music played by a section of the ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA Conducted by THE COMPOSER Technical direction. Mary Leftwich
Produced by JOHN RICHMOND
Second broadcast
Derek Godfrey and Barbara Jefford are members of the RoyaJ Shakespeare Company
*
DURING THE INTERVALS
8.0'-8.5* and
9.30'-9.45* -
A record of English lute music played by JULIAN BREAM followed by an interlude at 10.55

Contributors

Unknown:
William Shakespeare
Music By:
John Hotchkis
Music By:
John Gielgud
Unknown:
Virginia McKenna
Unknown:
Cordelia Howard Marion-Crawford
Unknown:
Barbara Jefford
Unknown:
Barbara Bolton
Unknown:
Regan Timothy Bateson
Unknown:
Mark Dignam
Unknown:
Edgar Michael Goodliffe
Unknown:
Albany Roger Delgado
Unknown:
Mary Leftwich
Produced By:
John Richmond
Unknown:
Derek Godfrey
Unknown:
Barbara Jefford
Played By:
Julian Bream
Earl of Kent:
Howard Marion-Crawford
Earl of Gloucester:
Mark Dignam
Edmund, bastard son to Gloucester.:
Derek Godfrey
Lear, King of Britain:
John Gielgud
Goneril:
Barbara Jefford
Regan:
Barbara Bolton
Cordelia:
Virginia McKenna
Duke of Burgundy:
Rolf Lefebvre
King of France:
John Justin
Edgar, son to Gloucester:
Philip Guard
Oswald, steward to Goneril:
John Bryning
Knight:
Alexander John
Fool:
Timothy Bateson
Duke of Albany:
Michael Goodliffe
Gentleman:
Peter Ducrow
Curan:
Geoffrey Wincott
Duke of Cornwall:
Roger Delgado
First Servant:
Humphrey Morton
Second Servant:
David Brierley
Third Servant:
Geoffrey Wincott
Old Man, tenant to Gloucester:
Haydn Jones
Messenger:
Alan Reid
Doctor:
Duncan McIntyre
Captain:
Antony Viccars
Herald:
Christopher Bidmead

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