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- Lennox Berkeley
Castaway (1966)
- Chester Music Ltd (World)
Designed as a companion-piece to A Dinner Engagement
- 1(pic).1(ca).2+bcl.1/2110/perc/hp.pf/str
- SATB
- 2 Baritones, Bass, Mezzo Soprano, 3 Sopranos
- 1 hr
- Paul Dehn
Programme Note
SYNOPSIS
The story is based on Homer’s Odyssey and tells how Odysseus is cast up after a storm on to an island where he meets Nausicaa, a princess. She falls in love with him but for reasons of etiquette cannot ask him his identity until he has dined at the palace. That evening, on hearing a blind minstrel sing of the ‘Trojan Horse’, Odysseus reveals who
he is. On the following day, he must sail for Ithaca to his beloved wife Penelope. Nausicaa is greatly disappointed.
The story is based on Homer’s Odyssey and tells how Odysseus is cast up after a storm on to an island where he meets Nausicaa, a princess. She falls in love with him but for reasons of etiquette cannot ask him his identity until he has dined at the palace. That evening, on hearing a blind minstrel sing of the ‘Trojan Horse’, Odysseus reveals who
he is. On the following day, he must sail for Ithaca to his beloved wife Penelope. Nausicaa is greatly disappointed.
Media
Discography
Lennox Berkeley: The One Act Operas
- LabelLyrita
- Catalogue NumberREAM2144
- ConductorMeredith Davies / Martin Handford / Steurt Bedford
- EnsembleBBC Northern Symphony Orchestra / English Chamber Orchestra / BBC Northern Orchestra / English Opera Group Chorus
- Released1st October 2021