or The Elf-King's Oath
A romantic opera in three acts
Libretto by J.R. Planché Music by Weber (tenor) (soprano) (tenor)(baritone) (spoken part) (soprano) Spoken parts (soprano)(soprano) (spoken parts)
Fairies, spirits, water-nymphs, knights, guards, slaves, harem girls, courtiers
BBC NORTHERN SINGERS
Chorus-Master,
Stephen Wilkinson
BBC NORTHERN ORCHESTRA Leader, Reginald Stead
Conducted by LEO WURMSER
Radio adaptation and production by DENNIS ARUNDELL
The action: in the Fairy Kingdom, in Bagdad, in Tunis, and in France, around the year 806.
ACT 1
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RENFORD BAMBROUGH, by profession a philosopher, speaks about football not as a player, nor even as a spectator, but as a mere follower Second broadcast
ACT 2
Anthony Thwaite introduces and reads a selection of his own poems with HUGH DICKSON Second broadcast
ACT 3
Joseph Ward broadcasts by permission of the General Administrator. Royal Opera House Covent Garden. Ltd.
by A BARRISTER
On the whole we rather like criminals, or at least side with them. Why?
by John Arden
Adapted for broadcasting by H. B. FORTUIN
A radio adaptation of the stage play produced at the Royal Court Theatre in 1959. with Gordon Jackson as Serjeant Musgrave
Music composed and conducted by DUDLEY MOORE
Produced by JOHN Gibson Third broadcast
James Bree and P. G. Stephens broadcast by permission of tha Royal Shakespeare Company
ANDOR FOLDES (piano)
Suite: Out of Doors
Three Burlesques
Improvisations on Hungarian Peasant Songs
Rumanian Folk Dances on a gramophone record