19:30

ARIADNE ON NAXOS

Fri 17^th Nov 1961, 19:30 on Third Programme

An opera in a prologue and one act
Music by RICHARD STRAUSS
Libretto by Hugo von, Hofmannsthal
English translation by Tom Hammond
Cast
Guests, stage staff, musicians, lackeys, etc.
Sadler's Wells Chorus
Chorus-Master, David Tod Boyd
Sadler's Wells Orchestra Leader, Barry Collins
Conductor, COLIN DAVIS
Producer. Anthony Besch
From Sadler 's Wells Theatre, London
PROLOGUE: A hall in the mansion of a Viennese ' nouveau-riche '
See page 54

Contributors

Music By:: Richard Strauss
Translation By:: Tom Hammond
Chorus-Master:: David Tod Boyd
Leader:: Barry Collins
Conductor:: Colin Davis
Producer:: Anthony Besch
Unknown:: From Sadler
The Majordomo (spoken role):: Michael Malnick
The Music Master:: Bernard Turgeon
The Composer:: Elsie Morison
The Tenor (later (later Bacchus):: Alberto Remedios
An Officer:: John Delaney
The Dancing-Master:: John Chorley
A Wig-Maker:: Kenneth Fawcett
A Lackey:: Donald McLntyre
The Prima Dorna (later Ariadne):: Elizabeth Fretwell
Zerbinetta:: Marion Studrholme
Brighella:: Edward Byles
Scaramuccio:: Kevin Miller
Harlequin:: Julian Moyle
Truffaldino:: John Holmes
Naiad:: Rae Woodland
Echo:: April Camtelo
DryadL:: Maureen Guy

Source: Radio Times

20:20

app. THE ROAD NOT TAKEN

Third Programme

Fri 17^th Nov 1961, 20:20 on Third Programme

by Philip Hobsbaum
Mr. Hobsbaum believes that the three English poets Edward Thomas , Wilfred Owen , and Isaac Rosenberg , all of whom were killed in the First World War, would have represented a third and a more fruitful alternative to the barren choice between Georgianism and American modernism which faced young English poets in the 1920S.