An opera in one act with a prelude
Words by Hugo von Hofmannsthal
Music by Richard Strauss
(sung in the original German)
Solo piano, Erna Gat
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
(Leader, David McCallum)
Conducted by John Pritchard
Produced by Carl Ebert
The Prelude:
A hall in the mansion of a nobleman

reading his own poems
Memory; To K.M.; Sotto Voce: Thomas Hardy; The Birthnight-to F; Away; A Child Asleep

String Quartet. Op. 121 played by the Pro Arte Quartet on gramophone records

by- Anthony Blunt
A talk on the problems of Picasso's art as revealed in the exhibition being held :n Rome of works selected by the artist from his private collection.

The Opera:
A stage set erected in the hall, representing the outside, of Ariadne's cave
' La Cencrentola ': Friday at 5.40

(' Lazare ') by Andre Obey
Translated by Gerard Hopkins Produced by E. J. King Bull
Cast in order of speaking:

(piano)

Talk by Renford Bambrough
Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge
It seems to me regrettable,' says the speaker, ' that so few of those who read Greek philosophy have any direct experience of what it feels like to be worried by a live philosophical problem. ' From rhis viewpoint he reconsiders the ' Cambridge approach ' to the study of ancient philosophy, with reference to the late Professor F. M Cornford's posthumous book Principium Sapientiae and to the recent inaugural lecture by W. K. C. Guthrie Laurence Professor of Ancient Philosophy at Cambridge