('The Seraglio')
Opera in three acts
Libretto after C.F. Bretzner
Music by Mozart

Cast in order of singing: [see below]

Glyndebourne Festival Chorus
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
(Leader, David McCallum)
Conducted by Fritz Busch
Produced by Carl Ebert
From Glyndebourne

The action takes place on the coast of Turkey in the palace of the Bassa

Act 1
Outside the Bassa Selim's palace

The Open Forum in the U.S.S.R. Leonard Schapiro talks about some aspects of the formation of public opinion in Soviet Russia

Adagio in F minor (K.404a) (Mozart) Fugue in F minor (W. F. Bach) played by the Pasquier String Trio on gramophone records

A W. B. Yeats Miscellany
In this programme some of Yeats' contemporaries talk about his practice of words as seen in relation to poetry and music
Narrator, Duncan Mclntyre
Programme edited and produced by W. R. Rodgers

Act 2
The garden of the palace harem

Some Enigmas in Michelangelo
Last of three talks by Edgar Wind
A discussion of Michelangelo's cult of darkness, and of bis use of metaphor in the Sistine ceiling

Act 3
A terrace outside the harem, overlooking the sea

A discussion between
Michael Manley and David Coore of Jamaica and Lord Hailey

Pictures at an Exhibition
Promenade: The Gnome; Promenade: The Old Castle; Promenade; The Tuileries — children quarrelling at play ; Bvdlo-the Polish ox-wagon; Promenade: Ballet of the Chickens Emerging from their Shells: Samuel Goldenberg and Schmuyle; Promenade; Tho Market at Limoges: The Catacombs: The Hut of Baba-Yaga; The Great Gate of Kiev played by Franz Osbom (piano)

A selection from his poema
Arranged and produced by Terence Tiller

Sonata in F (1939) played by Herbert Downes (viola)
Mewton-Wood (piano)

The Far Eastern Situation as Seen from Paris
Talk by Robert Guillain