Jack Beeson: Lizzie Borden

Cast: Brenda Lewis, Ellen Faull, Richard Fredricks
Conductor / Orchestra: Anton Coppola / Cambridge Festival Orchestra

Jack Beeson

The world premiere cast of Jack Beeson's Lizzie Borden in a gripping 1965 television production. The New York Times hailed the opera as "a compelling piece of musical theatre, that...gains presence from the intimacy of TV." A masterpiece of American opera, Lizzie Borden: A Family Portrait is a fascinating psychological study, with a score of great beauty and intensity. The powerful cast stars Brenda Lewis in the title role and Ellen Faull as her step-mother Abbie, with Anne Elgar, Herbert Beattie, Richard Fredricks, and Richard Krause; Anton Coppola conducts. Black & White, 112 minutes.

Price: $35.98