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- Alan Bush
The Ferryman's Daughter (1961)
- Novello & Co Ltd (World)
Opera of the eighteenth-century Thames waterside for schools.
Unavailable for performance.
- pf
- Children’s voices (5 solo roles; chorus)
- 1 hr
- Nancy Bush
- English
Programme Note
BRIEF SYNOPSIS
Mr Wilkins, a Thames waterman, finds that he is getting too old to carry on his trade. He wants his daughter Jenny to marry a waterman for security; but she is being courted by Tom Starling, a young farmer and will not agree. To Jenny’s dismay, Mr Wilkins announces that the winner of the annual race for the championship of the river may have her hand and his boat and custom. Tom’s rival Nat, a conceited waterman, thinks he will win, but Tom asks if he may compete. He is allowed to as the others think he has no chance. Jenny confides in Mrs Patchett, a fisherman’s wife, who knows that Nat is partial to winkles. Prior to the race she tempts him into eating as many as possible. Having over-eaten, Nat loses the race to Tom.
Mr Wilkins, a Thames waterman, finds that he is getting too old to carry on his trade. He wants his daughter Jenny to marry a waterman for security; but she is being courted by Tom Starling, a young farmer and will not agree. To Jenny’s dismay, Mr Wilkins announces that the winner of the annual race for the championship of the river may have her hand and his boat and custom. Tom’s rival Nat, a conceited waterman, thinks he will win, but Tom asks if he may compete. He is allowed to as the others think he has no chance. Jenny confides in Mrs Patchett, a fisherman’s wife, who knows that Nat is partial to winkles. Prior to the race she tempts him into eating as many as possible. Having over-eaten, Nat loses the race to Tom.