Music drama in a prelude and three acts
(sung in German)
Covent Garden Opera Chorus
(Chorus-Master, Douglas Robinson )
Covent Garden Orchestra (Leader, Charles Taylor )
CONDUCTED BY FRANZ KONWITSCHNY
From the Royal Opera House,
Covent Garden
(by arrangement with the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Ltd)
PRELUDE: The Valkyries' Rock
ACT 1
Scene I: The hall of the Gibichungs on the Rhine
Scene 2: The Valkyries' Rock
This conversation with Hubert Wellington was first broadcast seven years ago on the occasion of a retrospective exhibition of the sculptor's work Hubert Wellington, formerly principal of the Edinburgh College of Art, is the author of a book on Epstein.
app. ACT 2
In front of the hall of the Gibichungs
Poems selected and introduced by Allen Tate
The poets represented are
Isabella Gardner , Donald Justice W. S. Merwin , Howard Nemerov
W. D. Snodgrass , Reed Whittemore and James Wright
Readers:
Isabella Gardner , W. S. Merwin and Allen Tate
Produced by Louis MacNeice
-11.16 app. ACT 3
Scene 1: A wooded place on the Rhine Scene 2: The hall of the Gibichungi
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