BBC Proms - 2008 - Prom 47: Belohlavek, Dvorak, Janacek - Prom 47 - Part 2

From the Royal Albert Hall, London. Presented by Donald Macleod. The Prom concludes with Janacek's rarely heard semi-autobiographical opera Osud (Fate), about the writing of an opera, and which tells of the composer Zivny and his lover Mila, both the object of his obsessive love and the subject of his work. Zivny ...... Stefan Margita Mila ...... Amanda Roocroft Mila's Mother ...... Rosalind Plowright Dr Suda/Hrazda ...... Ales Briscein Lhotsky ...... Ales Jenis Konecny ...... Owen Gilhooly Ms Stuhla ...... Ailish Tynan Ms Pacovska/Fanca/Souckova ...... Martina Bauerova Doubek as a child ...... George Longworth BBC Singers BBC Symphony Orchestra Jiri Belohlavek (conductor) Janacek: Osud (concert performance - sung in Czech).