A music drama by Richard Wagner
(sung in German)
Gibichung Men and Women Covent Garden Opera Chorus
Covent Garden Orchestra
Conducted by Rudolf Kempe
Producer, Rudolph Hartmann
From the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
(by arrangement with the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Ltd.)
Prelude: The Valkyries' Rock
Act I
Scene 1: The Hall of the Gibichungs on the Rhine
Scene 2: The Valkyries" Rock
by Donald F. Thomson , Lecturer In Anthropology, University of Melbourne In the first of two talks Dr. Thomson describes how, having spent several years in their territory pacifying the Arnhem Lenders of North Australia, he was sent back to the region in 1942 to undermine Japanese influence among the aborigines and to train a unit of them for guerilla fighting in the event of an invasion of Australia.
Act 2
In front of the Hall of the Gibichung*
Talk by Bertram Henson : a consideration of the functions and defects of the English legal system.
Acr 3
Scene 1: A wooded place in the Rhine Scene 2: The Hall of the Gibichung*
A comment by Maxim Gorky on Tolstoy's marriage: this unpublished fragment is read by Gilbert Harding.
