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Opera in three acts and five scenes
Libretto by Eric Crozler
Music by Benjamin Britten
(Continued in next column)
English Opera Group
Chamber Orchestra
(Leader, Manoug Parikian )
Conducted by Benjamin Britten
The action of the comedy takes place during April and May of the year 1900 at Loxford, a small market town in East Suffolk
Act 1
Scene 1: Lady Billows' morning-room Scene 2: Mrs. Herring's shop
8.0 Interlude
8.10 Act 2
Scene 1: A marquee in the rectory garden
Scene 2: Mrs. Herring's shop
9.10 Interlude
9.20 Act 3
Mrs. Herring's shop

Contributors

Unknown:
Eric Crozler
Music By:
Benjamin Britten
Leader:
Manoug Parikian
Conducted By:
Benjamin Britten
Lady Billows, an elderly autocrat:
Joan Cross
Florence Pike, her housekeeper and companion:
Gladys Parr
Miss Wordsworth, head teacher at the church school:
Tatiana Preaton
Mr Gedge, vicar of St Mary's:
Bruce Boyce
Police-Supt Budd:
Norman Lumaden
Mr Upfold, mayor of Loxford, and butcher:
Roy Ashton
Sid, butcher's assistant:
Dends Dowling
Nancy, a girl from the bakery:
Marjorie Thomas
Mrs Herring, owner of the green-grocer's shop:
Catherine Lawson
Albert Herring, her son who runs the shop:
Max . Worthley
Tiresome village children:Emmie:
Doreen Orme
Tiresome village children:Cis:
Monica Garrod
Tiresome village children:Harry:
Richard Tovell

A selection from the new translation of Vergil's poem made for broadcasting by C. Day Lewis
Production by Basil Taylor
Book IV: * Dido and Aeneas'
Persons...:

Contributors

Production By:
Basil Taylor
Narrator:
Alan Wheatley
Dido:
Catherine Lacey
Anna:
Mary O'Farrell
Juno:
Margaret Rawlings
Venus:
Jill Baicon
Iarbas:
Michael Flanders
Jupiter:
Robert Harris
Mercury:
David Evans
Aeneas:
Allan McClelland

Third Programme

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