19:30

Elektra

Thu 29^th May 1958, 19:30 on Third Programme

A tragedy in one act
Libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal
Music by Richard Strauss
Covent Garden Opera Chorus (Chorus-Master, Douglas Robinson)
Covent Garden Orchestra (Leader, Charles Taylor)
Conducted by Rudolf Kempe
From Covent Garden (by arrangement with the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Ltd.)

Contributors

Libretto:: Hugo von Hofmannsthal
Music:: Richard Strauss
Singers:: Covent Garden Opera Chorus
Chorus-Master:: Douglas Robinson
Musicians:: Covent Garden Orchestra
Leader:: Charles Taylor
Conductor:: Rudolf Kempe
First Maid:: Lauris Elms
Second Maid:: Noreen Berry
Third Maid:: Josephine Veasey
Fourth Maid:: Marie Collier
Fifth Maid:: Jeannette Sinclair
The Overseer:: June Grant
Elektra:: Gerda Lammers
Chrysothemis, her sister:: Hedwig Muller-Butow
Clytemnestra, their mother:: Georgine von Milinkovic
Her Confidante:: Phyllis Simons
Her Trainbearer:: Leah Roberts
A Young Servant:: Dermot Troy
An Old Servant:: Charles Morris
Orestes, brother of Elektra and Chrysothemis:: Otakar Kraus
His Guardian:: David Kelly
Aegisthus:: Edgar Evans

Source: Radio Times

21:20

Comment

Third Programme

Thu 29^th May 1958, 21:20 on Third Programme

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A topical programme on the arts, literature, and entertainment including:
John Bowen on a new play by Harold Pinter, The Birthday Party, now running at the Lyric, Hammersmith: Mr. Bowen comments on the use of revue techniques in a number of recent plays. A talk on the exhibition of paintings by Poliakoff at the Hanover Gallery, London

Source: Radio Times

21:40

BACH

Third Programme

Thu 29^th May 1958, 21:40 on Third Programme

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Das wohltemperierte Clavier
Forty-eight Preludes and Fugues
C sharp: C sharp minor (Book 1) C sharp; C sharp minor (Book 2)
Maurice Cole (piano)
Second of twelve recitals

Source: Radio Times

22:05