[2] It went for 25 minutes and only featured two people, played by Marie Tysoe and Kevin Mills.
Tysoe and Mills had performed the opera together many times in 1953 and 1954, on stage and on radio.
[4][5][6] Marie Tysoe later recalled making the film: It was done live to air from the radio studio at Kings Cross.
It was an ideal opera to start off on television, as it only had 2 performers and was a relatively simple set and not many props.
The conductor and one of the stage managers took me to a boutique shop at Kings Cross, and they bought an elegant dress for me to wear on the production.