Opera in three acts
Libretto by the Abbé Varesco
Music by Mozart
The original version edited for performance by Hans Gal
Glyndebourne Festival Chorus
(Chorus-Master, John Pritchard )
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
(Leader, David McCallum )
Continnuo: Karel Horitz (cello) and John Pritchard (harpsichord)
Conducted by Fritz Busch
Produced by Carl Ebert
From Glyndebourne
Scene: Cydonia in Crete shortly after the end ot the Trojan War
Acts 1 and 2
Arland Ustsner , the Irish philosopher, comments on Shaw's outlook and influence
4 Shaw,' says the speaker, ' brought philosophy out of the universities and art out of the coteries as he took revolution out of anarchist cellars and gave a needed dusting and ventilating to all three. His greatness was that he put both philosophy and life upon the boards; but it was his weakness that his thought and his art were never fused.'
(' Live ? Our servants can do that for us ...') by Philippe Auguste Mafhias , Count Villiers de l'Isle-Adam
(1838-1889)
Abridgpd and newly translated with a commentary by James Lover
Produced by Rayner Heppenstahl wish Hamilton Dyce. Stanley Groome
J. Hubert Leslie. Duncan McIntyre
Robert Marsden. Keith Pyott
Act 3
by Gordon Craig
First of two talks. (Recorded by courtesy of Radiodiffusion Française
To be repeated on July 23 ' Irving's Way': July 21
See ' Both Sides of the Microphone '
Yfrah Neaman (violin)
Howard Ferguson (piano)
Professor J. H. Delairgy , Director of theIrish Folklore Commission, gives an introduction to a series of six programme of traditional stories
Suite in G manor played by Walter Gerwig (lute)
A series of talks suggested by the SouUh Banik Exhibition
2-The Return of the Genius Led by Hidalgo Moya