Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street > Opera North


Show Details

Show
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (33)
Music
Stephen Sondheim (702)
Lyrics
Stephen Sondheim (702)
Book
Hugh Wheeler (22)

Recording Details

Date
1998
Type
Noncommercial Audio / Stage Cast
Method
Live
Language
English
Location
UK / England / London
Theatre/Venue
Queen Elizabeth Theatre
Group/Studio
Opera North
Director
David McVicar (2)
Conductor
James Holmes (10)
Performer
Stephen Briggs (3) — Beadle Bamford, Daniel Broad, Karl Daymond (10) — Anthony Hope, Stuart Kale (7), Gillian Kirkpatrick (5) — Beggar Woman, Beverley Klein (15) — Mrs Lovett, Anna-Clare Monk, Opera North Chorus (3), Steven Page (11) — Sweeney Todd, Malcolm Rivers (6) — Judge Turpin, Christopher Saunders (2) — Tobias Ragg, Lucy Schauffer (2) — Johanna, Adrian Thompson (8) — Pirelli
Musician
English Northern Philharmonia (2)
Notes
Broadcasted by the BBC on March 30, 1998
Shortcode
[r7726]

Releases

Format
Radio Broadcast
Lists
59 collectors / 38 wish lists
Shortcode
[rl10192]
Disc 1
1. Prelude/The ballad of Sweeney Todd
2. No place like London
3. There was a barber and his wife
4. The worst pies in London
5. Poor thing
6. My friends
7. The ballad of Sweeney Todd II
8. Green finch and linnet bird
9. Ah, miss
10. Johanna
11. Pirelli’s miracle elixir
12. The contest
13. The ballad of Sweeney Todd III
14. Johanna (Judge Turpin)
15. Wait
16. Anthony’s entrance
17. Pirelli’s death
18. The ballad of Sweeney Todd IV
19. Kiss me/Ladies in their sensitivities
20. Judge Turpin arrival
21. Pretty women
Disc 2
1. Epiphany
2. A little priest
3. God, that’s good!
4. Johanna
5. Fogg’s asylum sequence
6. Mrs. Lovett sequence
7. By the sea
8. Wigmaker sequence
9. The letter
10. Not while I’m around
11. Mrs. Lovett and Tobias sequence
12. Parlor songs
13. Fogg’s asylum
14. Final scene
15. The ballad of Sweeney Todd

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