An opera in two acts
Music by MOZART
Libretto by Emanuel Schickaneder sung in German
COVENT GARDEN OPERA CHORUS
Chorus Master, Douglas Robinson Covent GARDEN ORCHESTRA Leader. Charles Taylor
Conducted and produced by OTTO Klemperer
Associate Producer, Christopher West
From the Royal Opera House Covent Garden
Act 1
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by Thomas Blackburn
Mr. Blackburn believes that his childhood relationship with his father, a north-country vicar born in Mauritius, was the decisive experience in leading him towards the self-explanation necessary for poetry.
Act 2
by H. G. Nicholas
Fellow of New College, Oxford
A biography of Neville Chamberlain by lain Maclend was published recently. Mr. Nicholas suggests resemblances and contrasts between the subject and author of this biography, between the ' radical social reformer' and Conservative leader of the inter-war years, and ' the new Conservative of the 1960s, today's Chairman of the Party.
