An opera in three acts
Libretto by Thomas Broughton
Music by Handel
Chandos Chorus
Thurston Dart (harpsichord continuo)
Philomusica of London
(Leader, Granville Jones )
CONDUCTED BY CHARLES FARNCOMBE
Producer, Ande Anderson
SCENE: The palace of Hercules in Trachis
ACT 1
by J. M. Richards
One of London's famous skylines is now threatened, and high buildings are Producing many other changes. Mr. Richards argues that at present it is nobody's business either to safeguard the vital parts of a city's landscape or to write a new silhouette into the sky.
Act 2
New translations from the Anglo-Saxon by Burton Raffel
Readers:
John Laurie and Anthony White
Produced by Sasha Moorsom
Act 3
Story by Pauline Bentinck
Read by Trader Faulkner