' DON GIOVANNI '
An opera in two acts
Libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte
Music by Mozart
(sung in the original Italian)
Cast in order of singing:
Donna Elivira , a lady of Burgos abandoned by Don Giovanni Sena Jurinac
(Continued in next column)
Glyndebourne Festival Chorus Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
CONDUCTED BY GEORG SOLTI
(who also plays the harpsichord continuo)
Producer, Carl Ebert
Chief coach, Jani Strasser
Act 1
Scene 1: Outside the Commendatore's house in a Spanisih town. Night
Scene 2: A Street. Morning
Scene 3: The garden entrance to
Don Giovanni 's castle
Scene 4: A room in Don Giovanni 's castle Scene 5: Don Giovanni 's garden
Scene 6: The balkoom in Don Giovanni 's castle
Talk in French by Albert Camus about his novel followed by a translation of the talk by Sasha Moorsom
by Kay Cicellis
Music composed by Elisabeth Lutyens conducted by Edward Clark
On August II and 12, 1953, the town of Lixouri in Cephalonia, in the Ionian islands of Greece, was entirely destroyed by an earthquake Three months later Kay Cicellis revisited the town, where she had spent her childhood. The Death of a Town is her imagined impression of the catastrophe and its aftermath as told in the recollections of six of the survivors.
The Storyteller, Yvonne Mitchell
Produced by Peter Duval Smith
Act 2
Scene 1: Outside Donna Elvira's lodging
Scene 2: A courtyard in Donna Anna's house
Scene 3: A cemetery
Scene 4: A room in Donna Anna's house
Scene 5: The supper-room in Don Giovanni's castle
('The Rake's Progress': July 24)
No. 4
A monthly programme of comment and observation
Speakers:
D. W. Harding
' The Criticism of Poetry '
D. S. Carne-Ross
' The Cult of the Young Writer' lain Hamilton
' Scottish Poetry Today '
Stanislaus Joyce
' The " Circe " episode in Ulysses'
String Quartet No. 6 played by the Gertler Quartet on gramophone records
Five talks by W. G. Hoskins
4—The ' Rash Assault'
' Is then no nook of English ground secure from rash assault? ' Wordsworth demanded when the builders of railways began to manipulate the landscape on a grand scale. The railway engineers took over from two generations of canal builders, and in this talk Dr. Hoskins considers the impact of both canal and railway construction on the rural scene.
(The recorded broadcast of May 3)
The House through the Trees: July 19