Beeson: Lizzie Borden

Release Date: 4th Nov 2013
Catalogue No: DVDVAI4563
Label: VAI

Usually despatched in 3 - 4 working days

Brenda Lewis (Lizzie Borden) Ellen Faull (Abbie Borden) Anne Elgar (Margret Borden) Herbert Beattie (Andrew Borden) Richard Fredericks (Captain Jason MacFarlane) Richard Krause (Reverend Harrington)
The Cambridge Festival Orchestra
Anton Coppola

About
Explore

About

Libretto by Kenward Elmslie, after a scenario by Richard Plant

Jack Beeson’s Lizzie Borden is one of the masterpieces of Twentieth century American opera. Making use of the historical Borden case, the creators sought in the composer’s words “to explain why our Lizzie, given the frustration of her strong passions, was led to murder her father and stepmother.” The real-life Lizzie was acquitted of all charges, though speculation still runs high more than a century later. This gripping television production – produced within months of the 1965 world premiere – features the acclaimed original cast and conductor.

Beeson: Lizzie Borden

DVD Video

Contents

Download queue