A comedy for music in three acts by Hugo von Hofmannsthal
Music by Richard Strauss
(sung in German) on gramophone records
(Continued in next column) Waiters Wolfgang,DaucherRudolf Stumper Fritz Erber Ferdin and Settmacher
Vienna State Opera Chorus
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
CONDUCTED BY ERICH KLEIBER
The action takes place in Vienna in the early years of the reign of Maria Theresa.
ACT I
The Princess's bedroom
Contributors
Unknown:
Hugo
von Hofmannsthal
Music By:
Richard
Strauss
Conducted By:
Erich
Kleiber
Unknown:
Maria
Theresa.
Princess von Werdenberg. wife of Field-Marshal Prince von Werden berg (soprano):
Maria
Reining
Baron Ochs auf Lerchenau (bass):
Ludwig
Weber
Octavian (called Quinquin), a young gentleman of noble family (mezzo soprano):
Sena
Jurinac
Sophie (soprano):
Hilde
Gueden
Herr von Faninal, her father, a rich and newly ennobled merchant (baritone):
Alfred
Poell
Marianne Leitmetzerin Sophie's duenna (soprano):
Judith
Hellwig
Valzacchi, an intriguer (tenor):
Peter
Klein
Annina, his partner (contralto):
Hilde
Rossl-Majdan
A police inspectort bass):
Walter
Berry
Majordomo at the Princess's residence (tenor):
Harald
Proglhof
Majordomo at Faninal's residence (tenor):
August
Jaresch
An attorney (bass):
Franz
Bierbach
The landlord of an inn (tenor):
Erich
Majkut
A vendor of animals:
Erich
Majkut
An Italian singer (tenor):
Anton
Dermota
Three orphans of noble family:
Wilfriede
Loibner,
Three orphans of noble family:
Elfriede
Hochstatter,
Three orphans of noble family:
Maria
Trupp
A milliner (soprano):
Berta
Seidl
Footmen of the Princess:
Alois
Buchbauer,
Footmen of the Princess:
Ludwig
Fleck
Footmen of the Princess:
Fritz
Maier
Footmen of the Princess:
Otto
Vajda
of Dante Alighieri
The third cantica of the Divine Comedy, translated into English triple rhyme by Laurence Binyon
A reading in six parts
,Produced by Peter Duval Smith
Part 3 (Cantos 12-17)
Contributors
Unknown:
Laurence
Binyon
Produced By:
Peter Duval
Smith
Act 3
A private room at an inn
10.50 DRUGS OF ELECTION
Morris Carstairs , who is both an anthropologist and a psychologist, speaks about the reasons why different peoples have chosen different drugs or intoxicants. ' Pharmacological analysis,' he says, can tell us about the properties of a given drug, but only a study of the emotional values of a society can explain why it is used in some societies and rejected in others.'
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