Paul Bunyan

Archive Listings for Paul Bunyan

T02129274816 (MUMFORD05) Company Anglia Opera. Conductor Paul Jackson. Director David Crilly.
3 May 05 to 7 May 05	Mumford Theatre, Cambridge :: V22 listing details L289687451
T1645007335 (RO99) Company Royal Opera. Performer Kenneth Cranham. Performer ter Coleman-Wright. Performer Susan Gritton. Performer Jeremy White. Performer Francis Egerton. Performer Graeme Broadbent. Performer Henry Moss. Performer ter Wedd. Performer Kurt Streit. Adapted by nald Kaasch. Performer Timothy Robinson. Performer Lillian Watson. Performer Leah-Marian Jones. Performer Pamela Helen Stephen. Conductor Richard Hickox. Conductor Chris Willis. Director Francesca Zambello. Design Hildegard Bechtler. Costume Nicky Gillibrand. Lighting Wolfgang Gobbel. Choreographer Denni Sayers.
23 Apr 99 to 1 May 99	Sadler's Wells Theatre, Inner London :: V224 listing details L667952412
T02081520029 (RO97) Winner, 1998 Olivier Award for Best New Opera.Company Royal Opera.
19 Dec 97 to 20 Dec 97	Corn Exchange, Kings Lynn :: V68 listing details L02045867392
10 Dec 97 to 17 Dec 97	Shaftesbury Theatre, West End :: V415 listing details L0290720541
5 Dec 97 to 6 Dec 97	Snape Maltings Concert Hall, Aldeburgh :: V75 listing details L01252750370

Details

Opera or Operetta :: First performed in 1941 and set in the pioneering days in America. Paul Bunyan is a lumberjack who never ages but grows taller every day. Paul marries and has a daughter but his wife leaves him. Later when she dies he gets his daughter back and she helps the camp cook - who decides to try and kill Paul but comes to his senses.

Author	Benjamin Britten
Lyrics	W H Auden