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A play in six parts by Peter Elliott Hayes
with Felix Felton as Dr. Petrie

Contributors

Writer:
Peter Elliott Hayes
Producer:
David Davis
Dr. Petrie:
Felix Felton
Tom Lambert:
David Spenser
Clifford Bowen:
Graydon Gould
Elizabeth Ryder:
Elaine MacNamara
Prof McLaren:
Ian Sadler
Peter Garrick:
Harold Reese
Sir Edward Bancroft:
William Fox
Lord Hetherton:
Charles West
Superintendent:
Eric Lugg

See above and page 54

Act 1
The action takes place in Rome in June 1800

Act 1 at 7.15
The Church of Sant' Andrea della Valle

Act 2 at 8.20
Scarpia's private apartment in the Palazzo Farnese

Act 3 at 9.25
The fortress Sant' Angelo

Tosca
An Opera in Three Acts
Libretto adapted from Sardou's drama by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa
Music by Puccini (sung in Italian)

Covent Garden Opera Chorus
Chorus-Master, Douglas Robinson

Covent Garden Orchestra
Leader, Charles Taylor
Conducted by Edward Downes

From the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden

Contributors

Libretto adapted from Sardou's drama by:
Luigi Illica
Libretto adapted from Sardou's drama by:
Giuseppe Giacosa
Music:
Giacomo Puccini
Floria Tosca, a prima donna (soprano):
Regine Crespin
Mario Cavaradossi, a painter (tenor):
Giuseppe di Stefano
Baron Scarpia, Chief of Police (baritone):
Otakar Kraus
Cesare Angelotti, an escaped political prisoner (bass):
David Kelly
A Sacristan (bass):
Forbes Robinson
Spoletta, a police agent (tenor):
Robert Bowman
Sciarrone, a gendarme (bass):
Victor Godfrey
A gaoler (bass):
Rhydderch Davies
A shepherd' boy (treble):
John Pyle
Soldiers, police agents, ladies, citizens:
[artists uncredited]
Singers:
Covent Garden Opera Chorus
Chorus-Master:
Douglas Robinson
Musicians:
Covent Garden Orchestra
Leader:
Charles Taylor
Conductor:
Edward Downes

William Hazlitt
' The sitter at first affects an air of indifference, throws himself into a slovenly or awkward postion, like a clown who goes courting for the first time, but gradually recovers himself, attempts an attitude, and calls up his best look ...'
Reader, Peter Ducrow

Contributors

Unknown:
William Hazlitt
Reader:
Peter Ducrow

BBC Home Service Basic

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BBC Home Service is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 1st September 1939 and ended on the 29th September 1967.

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