Omnibus (1967)

Corporal Jan (1x31)

Udgivelsesdato: Jun 18, 1968

A dramatic work created for television. English Chamber Orchestra Leader, Emanuel Hurwitz Conducted by Norman Del Mar Elizabeth Anderton and members of the Royal Opera Ballet appear by arrangement with the General Administrator. Royal Opera House Covent Garden Ltd.; John Chesworth appears by arrangement with the Ballet Rambert; Ruth Papendick by arrangement with the Stuttgart State Theatre Ballet; Olwyn Atkinson and members of the Sadler's Wells Opera Ballet appear by arrangement with the Sadler's Wells Opera At Apple Harvest, Jan, a poor soldier, returns home to a village obsessed with witchcraft. He dreams that the three women in his life become the triple Goddess (representing the three stages of woman from virgin to hag) and sees himself killed at her feet when presented with an apple - the sacred fruit of the Goddess. Jan wakes from his dream to find his lover Ellen accused of witchcraft. But it is he who meets his death, trying to protect her. Contributors Music specially compo