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The Dream of Gerontius (1968)
Directed by Brian Large
Music · 1h 40m
Long considered lost footage, this exceptional concert, which originally aired April 14, 1968, on the BBC, is a full-colour performance of Edward Elgar’s The Dream of Gerontius recorded inside the stunning Canterbury Cathedral and featuring three of the greatest voices of the era: mezzo-soprano Dame Janet Baker, tenor Sir Peter Pears, and bass-baritone John Shirley-Quirk. Conducted by Sir Adrian Boult, ardent champion and esteemed interpreter of Elgar’s works, this concert film — which required eight of the nine existing colour cameras in the UK at the time — constitutes a rare and treasured artifact marking the beginning of high-quality colour footage of British operatic productions.
Cast
Peter Pears
Crew
- Director
- Brian Large
- Writer
- John Henry Newman
- Producer
- Mavis Jewell, John Gilpin, Terry Learner, Brian Large
Details
- Release date
- 1968-04-14
- Runtime
- 1h 40m
- Genres
- Music
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United Kingdom
- Production
- BBC