An opera in three acts on gramophone records
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Act 1: The terrace of the Emperor's palace; Barak's house

An Opera in Three Acts
Libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal
Music by Richard Strauss (sung in German)
(on gramophone records)

CAST
THE Emperor Hans Hopl
THE Nurse Elisabeth Hbngen BARAK
THE Dyer Paul Schoeffier
THE Voice OF THE FALCON Judith Hellwig
Apparition OF A YOUNG MAN Karl Terkal
The Dyer's Brothers: THE ONE-EYED MAN Harald Proglhof
THE ONE-ARMED MAN Oscar Czerwenka
THE HUNCHBACK Murray Dickie
THE EMPRESS Leonie Rysanek
THE SPIRIT MESSENGER Kurt Bohmt
THE DYER'S WIFE Christel Goliz
GUARDIAN OF THE THRESHOLD.Emmy Loose
A VOICE FROM ABOVE Hilde Rossl-Majdan
VOICES OF UNBORN CHILDREN: Liselotle Maikl, Rulhilde Bosch Berta Seidl, Edith Priessner Geriraud Bastezky
WATCHMEN: Alfred Poell, Eberhard Wachter Ljubomir Panstcheff
SERVING-MAIDS: Emmy Loose, Anny Felbermayer, Hilde Rossl-Majdan
SOLO VOICES: Emmy Loose, Liselolte Maikl, Rulhilde Bosch, Anny Felbermayer, Dorothea Frass, Hilde Rossl-Majdan
VIENNA STATE OPERA CHORUS, VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA Conducted by Karl Bohm

A Case of Ancestor Worship
Carl Amery, the Bavarian novelist and critic, finds the political scene in Western Germany as puzzling to Germans as it is to outsiders. His approach to an explanation follows an unusual line.

Act 2: Barak's house; Outside the Emperor's falconry; Barak's house; The empress's bedroom in the falconry; Barak's house

(1563-1631)
Selected poems read by Maureen Robinson and Derek Hart

An underground vault; The entrance to a temple; Inside the temple; A landscape

Script by Eric Ewens
Production by Douglas Cleverdon

Edith Lake (viola da gamba)
Dorothy Erhart (harpsichord)

Second of two programmes

Adapted for broadcasting from the short story 'Evolutions' by Eugene Ionesco Reader, Derek Hart