A comic opera in two acts
Libretto by SCRIBE and DELESTRE-POIRSON
Music by Rossini
English translation by TOM HAMMOND
Cast in order of singing:
SADLER'S WELLS CHORUS
Chorus-Master, John Barker
SADLER'S WELLS ORCHESTRA Leader, Brian Thomas
Conductor, BRYAN BALKWILL
Producer, Anthony Besch
From Sadler 's Wells Theatre, London
The action takes place in Touraine at the time of the Crusades, about the year 1200. Act I
Outside the main gate of the castle of Formoutiers

Idealism and Athletics
PETER TOWNSEND , sociologist, talks about the part played by athletics in his personal and family life Second broadcast

Act 2
Inside the castle at Formoutlers

Chosen and introduced by LOUIS MACNEICE
A selection ranging from the hymns of Prudentius in the fourth century to the levities of the Carmina Burona and the notorious ' Arch-Poet ' eight or nine centuries later
Readings in the original Latin and in English translations
Readers:
Denis Goacher
Malcolm Hayes. Robert Irwia Second broadcast followed by an Interlude at 10."

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