Music drama in three acts
Chorus and Orchestra of the Bayreuth Festival
CONDUCTED BY WOLFGANG SAWALLISCH
Producer, Wolfgang Wagner
ACT I: On board King Marke's ship returning to Cornwall
by John Holloway
Coventry Patmore , in his criticism, often anticipates what we like to think of as the modern manner, notably in his comments on Donne. His poetry, too, John Holloway suggests, ' displays a good deal of Donne's exploring subtlety, his close yet unforced argumentation '; and yet the two poets, ' besides being somewhat alike, are also profoundly different.'
This talk was prompted by J. C. Reid 's recent book, The Mind and Art of Coventry Patmore.
ACT 2: In the garden of Marke's castle in Cornwall
J. W. N. WATKINS says that metaphysical theories have been important in the past not so much in themselves but as regulating and programming other kinds of enquiry. That nature can be mathematically described, for example, or that history is shaped by historical laws are both metaphysical notions.
Translation by Norman Cameron of ' La Nuit d'Août' by Alfred de Musset (1810-1857) Programme arranged and introduced by Rayner Heppenstall
ACT 3: In the ruined castle yard of Kareol in Brittany
A. play by Gerard McLarnon
Produced by Sam Hanna Bell and Francis Dillon
In the BBC's Belfast studios
Details as Wednesday 8.6
