19:30

'RUSALKA'

Thu 19^th Mar 1959, 19:30 on Third Programme

A lyrical fairy tale in three acts by Jaroslav Kvapil
English translation by Christopher Hassall
Music by Dvorak and Chorus of water nymphs courtiers and wedding guests
Sadler's Wells Chorus
(Chorus-Master. David Tod Boyd )
Sadler's Wells Orchestra
(Leader, John Ludlow )
CONDUCTED BY VILEM TAUSKY
Producer, Wendy Toye
From Sadler 's Wells Theatre.
London
(by arrangement with Sadler's Wells Opera Company)
ACT 1
A glade by lake in the forest; before dawn

Contributors

Unknown:: Jaroslav Kvapil
Translation By:: Christopher Hassall
Chorus-Master:: David Tod Boyd
Leader:: John Ludlow
Conducted By:: Vilem Tausky
Producer:: Wendy Toye
Unknown:: From Sadler
Rusalka, a water nymph:: Joan Hammond
The Spirit of the Lake. Rusalka'sfather:: Howell Glynne
Three wood nymphs.:: Ava June
Three wood nymphs.:: Joan Clarkson
Three wood nymphs.:: Diiys Davies
Jezibaba, the witch:: Patricia Kern
Voice of a huntsman:: Alberto Remedios
The Prince:: Charles Craig
The Foreign Princess:: Joan Stuart
The forester:: Joseph Ward
The kitchen boy:: Anna Pollak

Source: Radio Times

20:30

COMMENT

Third Programme

Thu 19^th Mar 1959, 20:30 on Third Programme

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A weekly review of the arts including:
A talk on the season given by the Comédie Francaise at the Princes Theatre. London
Christopher Logue on Four Men by Andre Davis , one of the Observer prize plays, at the Studio Theatre, Salisbury

Contributors

Unknown:: Andre Davis

Source: Radio Times

20:50

'RUSALKA'

Third Programme

Thu 19^th Mar 1959, 20:50 on Third Programme

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Acr 2
The gardens of the Prince's palaces dusk

Source: Radio Times

21:35

AN OLD WOMAN REMEMBERING'

Third Programme

Thu 19^th Mar 1959, 21:35 on Third Programme

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A dramatic poem on the life of Phoebe Hessel (1713-1821) by Margaret Stanley-Wrench with Beth Boyd , Bee Duffell
Ella Milne , William Eedle Simon Lack. Gabriel Woolf Produced by Terence Tiller
Phoebe Hessel , who as a. young girl fell in love with a private soldier and enlisted in the 5th Northumberland Fusiliers, is the subject of this dramatic poem written specially for the Third Programme.