BRITISH OPERA
SECOND of the five modern English operas to be broadcast this month, | Ruth, by Lennox Berkeley (above), will be heard from YC stations on Tuesday, October 8. The opera, in one act, is based on the Biblical story of Ruth, the steadfast Moabite widow who accompanies her Judean mother-in-law to Bethlehem and there gleans in
Boaz’s field to support them both. Boaz is attracted by the virtuous Ruth, and, through the
medium of his~« kinswoman Naomi, Ruth is instructed to come to Boaz as he lies sleeping on his threshing floor after the harvest and to offer herself as his wife. From the union sprang the line of David. Berkeley’s librettist, Eric Crozier, has altered the Biblical version to some extent, eliminating the scene where Boaz offers Ruth first to a nearer kinsman, and combining Ruth’s coming to Boaz and his proclamation of their marriage into one scene. It is, all round, a much politer story, but if the critics are to be believed, Berkeley has created a highly individual work, considerably superior to his previous essays in opera, Nelson and Dinner Engagement. (Ruth, all YCs, Tuesday, October 8, 8.0 p-m.)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 947, 4 October 1957, Page 27
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