PUBLISHED: Oct 04, 2012
DESCRIPTION:
***ALERT: Newest (Nov 2017) cleaner, skip-free recording LINKS:
**Act 1 https://youtu.be/U1V5lEcaoIs
**Act 2 https://youtu.be/F-xe-Cq2x-c
((Older corrected)) Act 1: https://youtu.be/SuO6P71x7yQ
This is the 1962 D'Oyly Carte recording, posted here in two acts.
Link to Ruddigore, Act 2 -- http://youtu.be/PfpmTi042TU
--CAST--
Sir Ruthven Murgatroyd --------------------------John Reed
(disguised as Robin Oakapple, a young farmer)
Richard Dauntless ----------------------------------Thomas Round
(his foster-brother, a Man-o'war's man)
Sir Despard Murgatroyd (of Ruddigore) --------Kenneth Sandford
Old Adam Goodheart ------------------------------Stanley Riley
(Robin's faithful servant)
Sir Roderic Murgatroyd --------------------------Donald Adams
(the twenty-first baronet)
Rose Maybud (a Village maiden) --------------Jean Hindmarsh
Dame Hannah (Rose's aunt) ----------------------Gillian Knight
Zorah (professional bridesmaid) -----------------Mary Sansom
Mad Margaret ------------------------------------------Jean Allister
--Chorus of Officers, Ancestors, Professional Bridesmaids, and Villagers--
D'Oyly Carte Opera Chorus
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
Conductor: Isidore Godfrey
Recorded at Walthamstow Town Hall, July 1962