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Ruddigore
Cox & Box

CATALOGUE NUMBER
473 656-2

LISTEN

Ruddigore — Overture

Cox and Box — Who are you, sir?

CAST
Ruddigore or The Witch’s Curse
without dialogue

Music by Sir Arthur Sullivan 1842–1900
Words by W.S. Gilbert 1836–1911

Sir Ruthven Murgatroyd John Reed
Richard Dauntless Thomas Round
Sir Despard Murgatroyd Kenneth Sandford
Old Adam Goodheart Stanley Riley
Sir Roderick Murgatroyd Donald Adams
Rose Maybud Jean Hindmarsh
Dame Hannah Gillian Knight
Zorah Mary Sansom
Mad Margaret Jean Allister

The D’Oyly Carte Opera Company
Soloists and Chorus
Orchestra of The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
Isidore Godfrey, O.B.E.
Recorded under the direction of Bridget D’Oyly

Cox and Box or The Long-lost Brothers
with dialogue

Music by Sir Arthur Sullivan
Words by F.C. Burnand

Cox Alan Styler
Box Joseph Riordan
Bouncer Donald Adams

The D’Oyly Carte Opera Company
Soloists and Chorus
New Symphony Orchestra of London
Isidore Godfrey, O.B.E.
Recorded under the direction of Bridget D’Oyly

RECORDING INFORMATION
Ruddigore
Set in the Cornish fishing village of Rederring, Ruddigore tells of the curse placed on the Murgatroyd family for burning a witch. The unfolding melodrama, which includes much of Sullivan’s most atmospheric music, reaches a climax of supernatural tension when, in “The Ghosts High Noon”, the ancestors climb down
from their portraits to sing of their doom.

There is much to enjoy here (especially Gillian Knight and Donald Adams whose “Ghosts High Noon” song is a marvellous highlight).
Isidore Godfrey is his inimitable sprightly self and the chorus and orchestra are excellent … A fine, traditional D’Oyly Carte set, then, brightly recorded.
The Penguin Guide to Opera on CD

Cox and Box
Cox and Box, a one-act opera with music by Sullivan and words by F.C. Burnand, is the story of Bouncer, the landlord who rents a room to two different tenants at the same time — a hatter who works by day, and a printer who works by night. All goes well until the two men meet with surprising consequences!

The D’Oyly Carte performance is splendid in every way. It is given a recording which, without sacrificing clarity, conveys with perfect balance the stage atmosphere.
The Penguin Guide to Opera on CD

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