('The Seraglio')
An opera in three acts
Libretto by Bretzner
Music by Mozart
(Continued in next column)
Glyndebourne Festival Chorus
(Chorus-Master, Peter Gellhorn )
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
(Leader, Steven Staryk )
CONDUCTED BY PAUL SACHER
Producer, Peter Ebert
Head of Music Staff, Jani Strasser
Acr 1
The garden of the Pasha Selim 's country palace on the coast of Turkey
ACT 2
Scene I: The garden of the palace harem
A discussion on landscape painting after a weekend spent in the country round Bakewell
Speakers: Peter Lanyon and Anthony Fry
Introduced by Andrew Forge
Peter Lanyon and Anthony Fry paint in very different styles but they share certain common attitudes towards their subject. These may be said to distinguish the work of their generation from much English landscape painting of the nineteen-thirties and -forties, with its emphasis on objets trouves, personnages, and themes of transformation.
Two Arabesques:
,La fille aux cheveux de lin Poissons d'or played by Hans Henkemans (piano) on gramophone records
A study in intellectual devotion
Sor Juana was a seventeenth-century Mexican poet who renounced court life to become a nun.
Poems translated and introduced by Irene Nicholson
Readers:
Prunella Scales , Anthony White and Guillermo Beltran
Produced by Sasha Moorsom
ACT 2
Scene 2: The garden of the palace
ACT 3
Scene 1: Outside Constanze's apartments in the harem
Scene 2: A prison
Scene 3: The Pasha's court
by Romain Rolland
Translated by John Holmstrom
Adapted and produced by R. D. Smith
Scene: Paris, 1789
For
Neville Marriner (violin)
Peter Gibbs (violin)
Marjorie Lavers (violin) with Derek Simpson (cello)
Charles Spinks (harpsichord)
Programme devised and introduced by Denis Stevens
