The Empress (Original title)
Date: 30 January 1994 (Television)Country: United KingdomDirector: Jane Thorburn
Synopsis: First in a series of specially-commissioned TV operas, THE EMPRESS, based on Wedekind's play. Young Empress Filissa is prescribed marriage as the only cure for her depression, but she rejects a succession of suitors representing power, intellect and money in favour of muscleman Holtoff.
Subject: Opera
Series title:
TV Transmissions
Date: 30 January 1994Broadcast channel: Channel FourCountry: United KingdomTransmission time: 20:00-21:00Runtime: 52 mins Network - Language: English - Colour - Sound
Date: 30 January 1994 (Television)Country: United KingdomDirector: Jane Thorburn
Synopsis: First in a series of specially-commissioned TV operas, THE EMPRESS, based on Wedekind's play. Young Empress Filissa is prescribed marriage as the only cure for her depression, but she rejects a succession of suitors representing power, intellect and money in favour of muscleman Holtoff.
Subject: Opera
Series title:
TV Transmissions
Date: 30 January 1994Broadcast channel: Channel FourCountry: United KingdomTransmission time: 20:00-21:00Runtime: 52 mins Network - Language: English - Colour - Sound
Credits
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Production Company: After Image, Producer: Anne Mcgeoch, Script: David Gale, Author of the Original Work: Frank Wedekind, Music: Orlando Gough
Cast
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Amanda Dean, Mike Ahearne, Valerie Morgan, Flying Pickets