Riders To The Sea- An Opera By Ralph Vaughan Williams
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Producer and Director: LOUIS LENTIN
Set Design: JAY CLEMENTS
Costume Design: CAROL BETERA
Lighting Director: JIM KELLETT
Maurya: Sarah Walker
Cathleen: Yvonne Brennan
Nora: Kathleen Tynan
Bartley: Hugh Mackey
A Woman: Mary Sheridan De Bruin
The Radio Telefís Éireann Chamber Choir and Concert Orchestra
Conductor BRYDEN THOMSON
Riders to the Sea is Vaughan Williams' most successful operatic achievement. It is short, but musically and emotionally on a grand scale.
The setting is the rugged and stormy west coast of Ireland where Irish dramatist J.M. Synge spent several summers, and where the primitive life of the inhabitants, whose existence depended almost entirely on the sea, provided him with the material for his great tragic play Riders to the Sea.
In choosing this one-act play about Aran fisherfolk, Vaughan Williams expesses the theme of human endurance in the face of the natural elements.
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