A lyric comedy in three acts
Libretto by Arrigo BOITO
Based on Shakespeare's
The Merry Wives of Windsor
Music by Verdi
Cast in order of singing:
COVENT GARDEN OPERA CHORUS Chorus-Master,
Douglas Robinson
ORCHESTRA OF THE
ROYAL OPERA HOUSE COVENT GARDEN
Leader, Charles Taylor
Conductor, Edward Downes
From the Royal Opera House Covent Garden
The action takes place In and around Windsor in the reign of King Henry IV.
ACT 1
Scene 1: The tap room at the Garter Inn
Scene 2: The garden of Ford's house

by MAURICE CRANSTON
Lecturer in Political Science in the London School of Economics
The autobiography of J. p. Sartre, Les Mots, is concerned with his childhood, but throws light on his later developments.

ACT 2
Scene 1: The tap room at the Garter Inn
Scene 2: Inside Ford's house

by Sir ANTHONY WAGNER
Garter King of Arms
What we are witnessing is simply the replacement of an older by a newer state of forces making for hierarchy. Social equality would be possible only in a state of social paralysis.
Tuesday, April 12: The rood of English Snobbery

ACT 3
Scene 1: Outside the Garter Inn
Scene 2: Herne's Oak in Windsor
Forest

Donald Hall introduces and reads a selection of his own poems
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