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Comic opera In one act
Music by Weber
English version by David Harris
Speaking parts:
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BBC Theatre Chorus
(Chorus-Master, John Clements )
The Boyd Neel Orchestra
(Leader, Emanuel Hurwitz )
Conducted by Stanford Robinson
Produced by C. Denis Freeman
The action takes place in Abu ai-Hassan's apartment in the precincts of the Royal Palace at Baghdad

Contributors

Music By:
Weber
Unknown:
David Harris
Chorus-Master:
John Clements
Leader:
Emanuel Hurwitz
Conducted By:
Stanford Robinson
Produced By:
C. Denis Freeman
Abu al-Hassan, favourite of the Caliph:
Jan van Der Gucht
Sugarcane, his wife, favourite of the Sultana:
Elsie Morison
Omar, a money-lender, infatuated with Sugarcane:
Martin Lawrence
The Caliph, Harun al-Rashid:
Eric Berry
Zubaidah, his wife, the Sultana:
Helen Goss
Masrur the Caliph's treasurer:
Michael Ward
Zemrud, Zubaidah's confidential nurse:
Doris Rogers

or The Philosophy of Optimism Translated into a radio version and produced by Douglas Cleverdon
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Part 1

Contributors

Produced By:
Douglas Cleverdon
Candide:
Hugh Munro
Cunégonde:
Cherry Cottrell
The Old Woman:
Flora Robson
Dr Pangloss:
Norman Shelley
Cacambo:
Roger Snowdon
The Governor of Buenos Ayres:
Alastair Duncan
The Jesuit Colonel:
Basil Jones
The Oreillon Girl:
Molly Lawson
The King of Eldorado:
Preston Lockwood
Martin:
Ernest Jay
The Abbé:
Charles E Stidwill
The Marquise:
Diana Marshall
The Man of Letters:
Laidman Browne
Il Signore Pococurante:
Robert Farquharson
The Englishman:
Arthur Bush
Brother Giroflée:
Malcolm Hayes
Paquette:
Olive Gregg
The Levantine Captain:
Ian Catford
Francois Marie Arouet de Voltaire:
James McKechnie

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