Aeolian String Quartet :
Alfred Cave (violin)
Leonard Dight (violin) Watson Forbes (viola)
John Moore (cello)

Talk by John Green

Opera in three acts
Libretto by Bailli du Rollet
Music by Gluck
(Continued in next column)
BBC Opera Chorus
BBC Opera Orchestra (Leader, John Sharpe )
Conducted by Roger Dgsormiere
The action takes place at Aulas in ancienit times
Act 1
The Greek camp
Iphigenie en Aulide was the first opera Gluck wrote for Paris, where it was produced, after some delay, in April 1774. The delay was occasioned by the inefficiency of the Paris opera at that time, and the opposition Gluck's arrival had aroused. More than once he threatened to withdraw his work and return to Vienna, and it was only the intervention of Aiarie Antoinette (to whom he had taught singing some years before) that made the production possible. It created a tremendous effect and marked a new era in the history of French opera. The libretto, by Bailli du Rollet, an attache of the French embassy in Vienna, is based on the tragedy of Racine, which in its turn was derived from Euripides. Harold Rutland

by John Betjeman
Verse read by Valentine Dyal 'l

Act 2
The portico of Agamemnon's palace
Act 3
Scene 1: Interior of a large tent
Scene 2: An altar on the sea shore
Another performance: July 10

A consideration of George Gissing by Walter Allen with Charles E. Stidwill as George Gissing
Production by Douglas Cleverdon

Neville Marriner (violin)
Thurston Dart (harpsichord)

The first of two programmes