A comic opera in five acts
Words and music by Werner Ege
(sung in German)
Symphony Orchestra of Suddeutscher Rundfunk, Stuttgart
Conducted by the Composer
Producer, Gunther Rennert

The action takes place in a provincial town in Russia in the middle of the last century.

Act 1: A room in the mayor's house

Act 2: A shabby room in an inn

Act 3: The same as Act 1

A series of talks commenting on current legal issues
Malice and the Gas-meter by R. M. Jackson
Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge

Acts 4 and 6: A room in the mayor's house

with the moral of a fourth, and an eighteenth-century poem by the Chevalier de Boufflers, read by Edwige Feuillere and Sylvia Monfort
Translations by Edward Marsh and L. E. Jones
Read by Hedli Anderson and Duncan McIntyre
This is the second of a group of eight programmes compiled by Rayner Heppen stallfrom the personal choices of four leading French actors and actresses.

Kreisleriana, Op. 16 played by Ilona Kabos (piano)