Music drama in four scenes (sung in German)
Covent Garden Orchestra (Leader, Charles Taylor)
Conducted by Franz Konwitschny
The action takes place in legendary times
SCENE 1: At the bottom of the Rhine
SCENE 2: An open space on a mountain height
SCENE 3: The subterranean caves of Nibelheim
SCENE 4: An open space on a mountain height
From the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden (by arrangement with the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Ltd.)
"Die Walküre": September 23 at 6.0
"Siegfried": September 28 at 6.0
"Götterdämmerung": October 2 at 6.0

by John Wren-Lewis
Why did the Christian heretics dislike the Incarnation, and the Troubadours seek to ' fly from the Flesh '? John Wren-Lewis argues that the characteristic difference between ancient and modern attitudes to 'the body' is that, in the ancient world, physical life was 'inevitably and inherently unpleasant,' but nowadays it is ' capable of manipulation.' He works out some consequences of these two facts to the conclusion that * the basic faith of our civilisation' is the ' resurrection of the body.'

of the 17th and 18th centuries
The Goldsbrough Ensemble:
Emanuel Hurwitz (violin)
Nona Liddell (violin) Terence Weil (cello) Arnold Goldsbrougb
(harpsichord)
Last of three programmes giver, by the Goldsbrough Ensemble