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"Quattro Rusteghi"
An opera In three acts
Libretto by Giuseppe Pizsolato from the play by Carlo Goldoni
English version by Edward J. Dent

Music by Wolf-Ferrari
Sadler's Wells Orchestra
(Leader, Walter Price)
Conducted by Alexander Gibson
Producer, Dennis Arundell
From Sadler's Wells Theatre
(by arrangement with Sadler's Wells Trust, Ltd.)

followed by an interlude at 8.0

Contributors

Unknown:
Giuseppe Pizsolato
Play By:
Carlo Ooldoni
Leader:
Walter Price
Conducted By:
Alexander Gibson
Producer:
Dennis Arundell
English version by:
Edward J. Dent
Mr Crusty, a cornchandler:
Howell Glynne
Mrs. Crusty (Margery), his second wife:
Anna Pollak
Lucinda, his daughter by his first wife:
June Bronhill
Mr Hardstone, a cutler:
Harold Blackburn
Peter, his son:
Gwent Lewis
Mrs. Gruff (Maria), his sister-in-law:
Marjorie Shires
Her maid:
Jane Gilbert
Mr Gruff, an apothecary:
Stanley Clarkson
Lady Pinchbeck (Felicia):
Marion Lowe
Riccardo Count d'Arcolai, her admirer:
Thomas Round
Sir James Pinchbeck, Master of the Goldsmiths:
David Ward

Jan Sedilvka (violin)
Sela Trau (cello)
Watson Forbes (viola)
Alan Richardson (piano)
Leon Goossens (oboe)
Mary Carter (violin)
Anantole Mines (viola)

Theme and Variations, for violin and cello (first broadcast performance): Elizabeth Maconchy (first broadcast performance)

Fantasia on the name BACH, Op. 29, for viola and piano: Kenneth Leighton (first broadcast performance)

Trio for oboe, violin, and viola: Hand Gal (first broadcast performance)

(The first and last works are [rest of text omitted by Radio Times]

Contributors

Viola:
Watson Forbes
Piano:
Alan Richardson
Oboe:
Leon Goossens
Violin:
Mary Carter

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